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By Ashwin Manikandan DEVGAD, India, May 26 (Reuters) – In India’s western state of Maharashtra, mango farmer Komal Walke is scrambling to meet orders from India’s online grocers after her family’s three acres of orchards produced almost no Alphonso mangoes this year. Walke, a 26-year-old horticulturist in the coastal town of Devgad, ​has been forced to source fruit from larger farms to keep her father’s business afloat.

By Adriano Machado SANTAREM, Brazil, Feb 24 (Reuters) – Brazilian Indigenous protesters who invaded a Cargill port facility in the northern town of ​Santarem plan to leave the site within ‌about 48 hours, Indigenous leader Alessandra Munduruku told Reuters on Tuesday.

SANTAREM/BRASILIA, Feb 23 (Reuters) – Brazil has decided to revoke a decree that would have expanded Amazonian waterways in a federal privatization program, a ​government official said on Monday, a move ‌that follows the occupation of a Cargill port facility on the Tapajos river by Indigenous protesters. The protesters have said the August decree would open up Amazonian rivers like the Tapajos ‌to ​dredging, which could impact water ⁠quality and the fishing ⁠they rely on to survive.

By Fabio Teixeira RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 21 (Reuters) – Indigenous protesters have occupied Cargill’s Santarem river port terminal in Brazil’s Para state and “completely” interrupted operations at the site, the ​U.S. grain trader said in a statement on ‌Saturday.

By Ana Mano SAO PAULO, Feb 19 (Reuters) – A Brazilian court reinstated late on Wednesday an order to free up access to the ​Santarem river port terminal where U.S. grain ‌trader Cargill operates, according to a ruling signed by federal judge Shamyl Cipriano and seen by Reuters.

By Ana Mano SAO PAULO, Feb 9 (Reuters) – A branch of Brazil’s federal public prosecutors’ office has denounced the potential use of force to remove Indigenous protesters from ‍the vicinities of a Cargill port terminal in the Amazon, according to a statement late last week. Indigenous groups have been protesting at the company’s Santarem terminal gate since January 22 against a project to dredge the Tapajos river, where traders rely on barges to move ‌grains for export via northern ports.

By Ana Mano and Manuela Andreoni SAO PAULO, Dec 29 (Reuters) – Some of the world’s largest soybean traders are preparing to break their agreement to curb deforestation of the Amazon rainforest to preserve tax benefits in Brazil’s top farm state, two people with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

(Reuters) -Lucid Group on Thursday launched a cheaper variant of its Gravity SUV with a starting price of $79,900, as the luxury electric-vehicle maker seeks to reach a broader audience amid slowing EV sales in United States. The Gravity Touring, offers up to 337 miles of range and seats seven, joining the higher-priced Grand Touring variant in Lucid’s SUV lineup. Orders for the new variant were open on Thursday with some configurations available for immediate delivery.

MOSCOW (Reuters) -The chief of Russia’s general staff Valery Gerasimov told President Vladimir Putin on Thursday that Russian forces had taken control of the Ukrainian city of Kupiansk. Putin had visited the command post of the Russian forces “West” grouping where he had met with Gerasimov, and top military brass, the Kremlin said earlier.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Negotiations between the Trump administration and Harvard University are close to being finalized, U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon told reporters at the White House on Thursday. The administration has opened a number of investigations into the university to monitor its compliance with U.S. President Donald Trump’s directives, an effort critics say amounts to political persecution. (Reporting by Nandita Bose and Gram Slattery; Editing by Chris Reese)