Lucknow, April 7 (TIWN) The intensive campaign against the coronavirus has created awareness in the rural interiors of Uttar Pradesh to such an extent that villagers in several districts are now banning the entry of outsiders completely.

India Today TV team went to Badaudi village in Mohali where 40-year-old farmer Surendra Singh and his aged parents -- father Mewa Singh (70) and mother Harbans Kaur (61) -- are struggling to harvest their sugarcane and wheat crops.  "The coronavirus lockdown and curfew has come as a double whammy for the Punjab farmers who were already shattered after the hail storm damaged a sizable part of the wheat crop. It is a harvesting time but the labour is missing," says Surender Singh who started clearing his sugarcane field from last week but was able to harvest just 30 per cent of it due to the scarcity of labour.