Uttar Pradesh cane farmers burn raw sugar import from Brazil

Hundreds of farmers from the Bharatiya Kisan Union, the Rashtiya Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan and Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan on Sunday set fire to a consignment of raw sugar at Shamli railway station in Muzzafar nagar.Hundreds of agitating cane farmers, who had laid seige to Shamli railway station in Muzaffar nagar on Saturday night and set fire to a raw sugar consignment imported from Brazil, allowed the goods train they had blocked to leave the station on Sunday evening after the authorities agreed to send back the imported sugar.

The farmers, belonging to the Bharatiya Kisan Union, Rashtiya Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan and Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan, were protesting against the sugarcane purchase policy of the Centre and Uttar Pradesh government.

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