1.   Coca farmer union leaders have stepped up threats to farmers who have chosen to switch to other crops.

2.   A radical Polish farmer leader was convicted Thursday of illegally dumping grain from freight cars in a protest last summer and put on probation for a year.

3.   Beni Prasad Verma, communications minister, a farmer leader, former state minister.

4.   Earlier Tuesday, farmer leaders arriving for the meeting expressed optimism.

5.   Farmers union leaders from around Europe met in Turin Thursday and unanimously expressed solidarity with British farmers.

6.   One week after launching roadblock protests across Poland, farmers union leader Andrzej Lepper sought Monday to widen anti-government demonstrations by including larger trade unions.

7.   Ruling party militants assaulted a farmer in eastern Zimbabwe on Wednesday despite an accord to end violence on white-owned farms, farmer leaders said.