Dang, March 1 -- As a symbolic protest, farmers in Ghorahi of Dang district were harnessed to ploughs and paraded along the street in a bid to pressure the government into resolving their long standing issue of land ownership.

Hundreds of agitating farmers took to the street with ploughs, yokes, spades and other agricultural implements in Ghorahi, the district headquarters of Dang district, in Lumbini Province, on Thursday. They staged their protest march near the district administration office and went around the town before converging into a corner meeting at Bhanu Chowk.

"We have been protesting for the past nine days. But the government did not heed our demands. We took to the streets parading like animals because the government has...