Farmers in Qila Saifullah city of the Balochistan district in Pakistan on Monday took a leaf out of Spain's La Tomatina festival to stage a unique protest against the low prices of agricultural produce as they threw tomatoes on the road and chanted slogans.
The Qila Saifullah farmers and landowners wasted all the tomatoes they had by hurling them on the city's major thoroughfare — connecting Quetta to Islamabad — and blocked the traffic.
The self-sufficient district, which produces apples, carrots, and green chillies apart from tomatoes and has one of the biggest produce markets, has final product from crops and other agricultural products readily available in specialised markets.
The upset farmers threw away hundreds of kilograms' worth of tomatoes on the road, effectively wasting them, to protest the prices that hurt their businesses. They led a demonstration rally from the city's Sabzi Mandi and stopped at the city's Junction Chowk.