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Goa won't compromise in Mahadayi water dispute case: Vijai Sardesai
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Panaji (Goa), Aug. 8 (ANI): Goa Agriculture minister Vijai Sardesai on Monday asserted that the western Indian state will not compromise on its interests over the ongoing Mahadayi inter-state river water dispute case with Karnataka.
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Congress isn't witty enough to coin meaning for NaMo: BJP
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug. 7 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday sneered at the Congress party for calling NaMo as 'No Agriculture Mal-governance Only' and said that the latter is not witty enough to come up with a meaning for NaMo.
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Congress takes dig at Modi, say NaMo is 'No agriculture Mal-governanc
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], August 6 (ANI): The Congress on Sunday lambasted the Narendra Modi led- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, describing sobriquet NaMo as "No Agriculture Mal-governance Only".
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Cabinet approves MoU between India-BRICs to set up BRICS Agriculture Resea
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 2 (ANI): Cabinet has approved a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between India and BRICs countries to set up BRICS Agriculture Research Platform, on Wednesday.
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Agriculture Ministry delivers steps to reduce farmer debts
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 1 (ANI): Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday listed out the measures taken by the Centre to alleviate the woes of debt ridden farmers.
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E-Rakam facilitates online agricultural business for farmers
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 1 (ANI): Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Ram Vilas Paswan and Minister of Steel, Government of India, Birender Singh on Tuesday launched the online portal e-Rakam in the national capital to facilitate farmers in their agricultural businesse
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Arunachal needs to take lessons from Thailand: Deputy CM Mein
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh) [India], July 25 (ANI): Arunachal Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein has said that his state needs to take economic growth lessons from Thailand to boost productivity in various sectors, including key ones like tourism and agriculture.
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Jhum farmer gets vocational training in Tripura
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Agartala (Tripura) [India], July 21 (ANI): Tribal communities in Tripura have for long practiced jhum or shifting cultivation, a traditional method where forests are slashed and burnt to create land for agriculture.
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Trump administration to allow 15,000 more foreign workers to work in U.S.
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [United States], July 18 (ANI): The U.S. government has announced an increase of 15,000 additional visas for temporary non-agricultural workers under the H-2B program for this fiscal year.
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Sri Lanka, Bangladesh pledge to enhance ties on all fronts
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], July 15 (ANI): Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday issued a joint statement pledging to strengthen bilateral relations and expressed their "deep satisfaction" on the signing of 14 agreements of cooperation in tr
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Rice cultivation - A way of life in India's northeast
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Kohima (Nagaland) [India], July 14 (ANI): India's Northeast is mostly based on an agrarian economy with more than 70 percent of the population engaged in the agriculture sector.
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Strategic partnership in agriculture with Israel aimed at doubling farmer
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Jerusalem [Israel], July 5 (ANI): The strategic partnership in water and agriculture with Israel is aimed at the Indian Government's goal of doubling farmer incomes by 2022, said Foreign Secretary Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Wednesday.
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