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Villages should not be seen as mere 'factories supplying food to cities':
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], July 12 (ANI): Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday said that providing better prices for agricultural produce and timely, affordable credit to farmers is crucial to sustaining agriculture in the country.
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Rajasthan: Section 144 imposed after man's murder in Baran, internet shut
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Baran (Rajasthan) [India], July 11 (ANI): The Baran district administration clamped Section 144, deployed police force, and shut down internet services on Sunday when tension gripped Baran city following the murder of a youth near an agricultural produce market the previous day.
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Need to integrate India's agri produce into global processed foods market:
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 1 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that India of 21st century needs post-harvest or food processing revolution and for that his government is initiating steps to integrate country's agricultural produce into the global processed foods market.
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Congress misleading farmers for political gains: Anurag Thakur
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 10 (ANI): In a scathing attack on Congress in Lok Sabha on Tuesday, Union Minister of State Anurag Thakur said the party has been misleading the farmers for its political gains by claiming that the agricultural produce market committee (APMC) mandis will be scrapp
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Fifty pc subsidy on transportation of fruits, vegetables on Kisan Rail
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 28 (ANI): The Government of India said on Monday that Kisan Rail has bolstered fast transportation of agricultural produce across the country by providing a seamless supply chain of perishable produce and providing 50 per cent subsidy on transportation of fruits a
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MSP will continue, no one can take away land from farmers: Rajnath Singh
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 27 (ANI): Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday assured that farmers that the minimum support price (MSP) for their agricultural produce and mandis will continue and asserted that no one can take away land from farmers.
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Goa CM appeals to farming community to promote organic farming
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Panaji (Goa) [India], December 26 (ANI): Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Friday appealed to the farming community to accelerate and promote organic farming in the state resulting in the best quality of agricultural produce that would boost the state's economy.
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Farmer destroys cauliflower crops over poor prices, says 'forced to sell p
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Shamli (Uttar Pradesh) [India], December 18 (ANI): Amid the ongoing farmers' protests against farm laws and minimum support price (MSP) for agricultural produce, a farmer in Shamli's Mayapuri village destroyed his standing crop of cauliflowers, claiming that he was being forced to sell his p
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BJP trying to divert attention, says Sharad Pawar on letters to CMs
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 8 (ANI): Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Tuesday said that BJP is trying to divert the attention by creating controversy over his letters written during his tenure as the union agriculture minister in the UPA dispensation to then Delhi ch
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TDP to give memorandum to district collectors for MSP and APMC
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh)[India], December 7 (ANI): The Telugu Desam Party on Monday said it will submit a memorandum to district collectors for including the assurance of Minimum Support Price (MSP) and Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) in the newly enacted farm laws.
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NCP issues clarification over Sharad Pawar's letters to Sheila Dikshit, Sh
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 7 (ANI): The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has issued a clarification after controversy erupted over letters written by party chief Sharad Pawar (when he was the agriculture minister in the UPA dispensation) to then Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshi
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Rahul Gandhi hits out at Centre over MSP, APMC, urges people to support fa
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 5 (ANI): Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Saturday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the minimum support price (MSP) and Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) Act and also urged citizens to support the protests led by farmers.
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