Wagga's Sikh community raise awareness and funds for the 2020 Delhi agricultural protests

Gathering at the riverside on Saturday morning, up to 50 members of the community came together to protest and raise funds to be sent to their family members who have joined picket lines across Delhi.

"The protests have been going on for three months but in the last two weeks they've been sitting in the bitter cold, blocking the highway," said Dr Aman Pasricha, who organised the event in Wagga.

"It's a peaceful protest [but] they're having tear gas and water canons turned on them."

The protests, which began two weeks ago in India's capital city, have been prompted by laws that will deregulate crop pricing leaving agricultural workers without any hope of achieving a fair wage for their work.

To date, more than 300,000 farmers have marched from Punjab and Haryana to the capital.

Each family that attended the community outreach in Wagga on Saturday, Dr Pasricha said has a "direct connection to someone there".

Several attendees told The Daily Advertiser they have siblings and in-laws who are among the protesters in Delhi.

"We feel their pain," Dr Pasricha said.

"Up to 60 per cent of people in India are from a farming community and they have said now they've had enough."

With signs and placards painted with messages of support for the farmers in Delhi, the gathering in Wagga managed to raise over $2000 from within their community and from passersby.

They say they will send the money directly to their family members to pay for food while they stay on the picket line "for as long as it takes".

"They have not spent even a single penny on their food, that has all been provided from all over the world," Dr Pasricha said.