Price of lentil?

Your front page report on February 10 from your correspondent at Pabna is terrible. It brings back to me, its similarity to John Galsworthy's play titled "The Price of Coal" which I read way back in 1948. The play depicted the tragic death of miners in underground mine accidents. The incident in Pabna, although no accident, is the loss of five lives and injury to twenty persons over quarrel for crop cutting of lentils! That too from a land that is not owned by any of the two groups in the quarrel, as reported.
Small wonder, life is so cheap in Bangladesh. It reminds me of Sheikh Sadi - a renowned Persian philosopher of may be 15th Century or so (I am not sure); who said that the basis of all quarrels are: Zun, Zurya Zamin (In Persian)? Translated it means all quarrels among people are centered round: Women, Wealth or Land!
In this case however the violent quarrel was over a crop of lentils! So, some money (wealth) finally. I do not know what was the lentil's worth. May be it would have fetched six to eight thousand taka. Its final value of course was six valuable (?) lives and possibly untold misery for six families! Was it worth it?