Temperatures dropped across Brazil on Thursday – with rare snowfall overnight in some places – as a polar air mass advanced toward the center-south of the global agricultural powerhouse, threatening coffee, sugarcane and orange crops with frost.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister on Friday said that a record cane price payment of more than Rs 1, 00,000 crores has been paid between 2017-2020 to the 47.20 lakh sugarcane farmers in the state.
At least nine students were injured after a bus hit a sugarcane trolly from behind in the wee hours of Wednesday on the Mumbai-Pune National Highway near the Telgoan Khind area.
A girl was raped by two youths in a sugarcane field at Kawal village in the district.
A woman was found dead in a sugarcane field at Gadla village.
A sugarcane farmer has died after a swarm of bees attacked him as a beehive was disturbed when he was working in his fields.
A leopard was beaten to death by villagers after it attacked and injured at least six people in Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich district.
Sugarcane farmers have been holding protests against the government for various demands, most significant of which was the lack of clearance of dues. Farmers continued the protest indefinitely when the demands were not fulfilled. Even in the blazing heat, the farmers are protesting.
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