Guwahati, Oct. 1 -- A fresh confrontation over palm-oil cultivation has erupted at Bokakhat in Assam's Golaghat district, with the JEEPAL Krishak Sramik Sangha alleging that traditional grazing land used by riverine communities is being taken over for commercial palm-oil plantations without the consent of local residents.

The organisation has directly targeted Agriculture Minister Piyush Hazarika, alleging that the expansion of palm-oil cultivation in the area is being pushed under the state government's agricultural policy and could eventually put pressure on the traditional land and livelihoods of people living in the Brahmaputra's char-chapori areas.The dispute centres on hundreds of bighas of riverine land at No. 1 Bokuli Sapori unde...