The unending and sporadically escalating cycle of violence in Manipur has claimed not just lives and property but has now begun to impact the production of rice, ginger, pineapple and green chillies too. Like everything else in the state, rice productivity in particular and agriculture in general, has become a victim of the spell of violence that began on May 3 and has since claimed hundreds of lives and property worth crores. According to a field survey report prepared by the state-level farmers’ union, Loumee Sinmee Apun Lup, 9,718 hectares of paddy fields in five valley districts of Manipur have been impacted by the conflict. Read on to know how farmers abandoned their fields after bullets rained on them.