[India] Protests: Peaceful protest

Summary

Single-source ACLED detection — awaiting independent verification. Farmers and agricultural organization members staged a peaceful sit-in protest on March 31, 2025, in Urmar Tanda town, Punjab, against the eviction and detention of farmers from protest sites in Shambhu and Khanauri villages. The demonstration was classified as low severity with no reported violence or disruptions.

Supply chain impact

No commodities or chokepoints are directly mapped to this event; second-order effects depend on how the situation escalates. If farmer protests in Punjab expand beyond peaceful demonstrations, agricultural production and distribution networks in India's key wheat and rice producing region could face disruptions during critical planting and harvesting seasons.

Watch points

• Monitor for escalation of farmer demonstrations beyond peaceful protests that could disrupt agricultural operations in Punjab
• Track any expansion of protests to additional locations or involvement of broader farmer organizations that might affect regional logistics