Farmers in India are harvesting the largest rice crop in history, which promises record exports, while making sure to keep up a long-running protest against laws they claim are unfair.

The sit-in against controversial agriculture reforms is taking place in the capital, miles away from the five acres of lush green rice paddies tended by Sukrampal Beniwal in his village of Munak, in the northern state of Haryana.

"We'll not budge until the government rolls back the laws," he said, referring to three measures the farmers, demonstrating by the tens of thousands in New Delhi, say will threaten their livelihoods.