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Protesting farmers set fire to tyres and block roads with their tractors on the sidelines of a meeting of European agriculture ministers in Brussels. Farmers across the continent have been protesting for weeks over what they say are excessively restrictive environmental rules, competition from cheap imports from outside the European Union and low incomes. IMAGES
Indian riot police fire tear gas at hundreds of protesting farmers seeking to breach heavily guarded roadblocks and march on the capital to demand guaranteed crop prices. IMAGES
An angry mob set at least four trains on fire and damaged a railway station in India's southern city of Secunderabad. The protest, one of many, was sparked after the Indian government announced a temporary recruitment plan to induct young adults into the armed forces for four years -- a major break from the past, as non-commissioned ranks are seen as lifetime jobs. IMAGES
Drones were used to spray cotton fields with pesticide in Xinjiang, covering an area of more than 400,000 hectares. Farmers benefit significantly by replacing manual farming with machinery as drones are able to cover 40 times the area a human would be able to spray in a single day.
Police fire water cannons as farmers set bales of hay on fire during a violent protest in Brussels. Rough Cut (no reporter narration)
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