Farmers are outraged over violent land grab in Shaanxi

The summer harvest is drawing near, but farmer Wang Xiaofeng won't have much to show for it. Her field is now barren, with just a few large ruts and some ruined wheat plants left to rot.

Wang is one of 12 villagers in the Yimen township of Binxian county, in Northwest China's Shaanxi province, who had their crops wiped out by the local government to make room for a new agricultural processing center.

The farmers said they tried to communicate with the government multiple times about the issue, questioning the legitimacy of the land acquisition and bargaining over resettlement and compensation.