Farmers transport their produce to a market in Nandigram..

Farmers transport their produce to a market in Nandigram village, about 170 km (105 miles) southwest of the eastern Indian city of Kolkata in this November 21, 2007 file photo. Across the fertile plains of Nandigram, once a quaint countryside in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, vast stretches of cropland stand empty, at places fields of ripe paddy destroyed. Months of violent confrontation between cadres of the ruling communists and villagers opposed to an industrial project on their land has turned Nandigram into a battle zone, and caught in the crossfire are hundreds of farmers who find their crops destroyed, or worse, farms captured by communist cadres they had fought.