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Telangana govt to waive agricultural loans: Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) India, Jan 19: In a bid to address farmers' distress, the Telangana Government has decided to waive loans upto Rs 1 Lakh taken by them, Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan said Saturday.
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Pradhan inaugurates ONGC CSR project to promote organic farming
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Dec 24 (ANI): Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Dharmendra Pradhan inaugurated a Centre for Agricultural Research and Training in Telangana on Sunday for imparting training to farmers in organic farming using the latest
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Budget made unreasonable demands on GST: Ex-CEA Subramanian
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Dec 10 (ANI): Former chief economic advisor (CEA) Arvind Subramanian opined that the Budget made "unreasonable demands" on the Goods and Services Tax (GST), but the latter was certainly not a failure.
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Cabinet approves Agricultural export policy to double farmers' income by 2
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Dec 7 (ANI): The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the Agriculture Export Policy, 2018 with an aim to double farmers' income by 2022. Exports of agricultural products would play a pivotal role in achieving this goal.
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Congress had led to agrarian distress: Jaitley
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), December 4 (ANI): In the backdrop of recently-held farmers' protest march in Delhi, Union Finance Minister and Corporate Affairs Arun Jaitley asserted that inadequacy of the resources pumped into the agricultural sector by the Congress had led to both an agrarian distress
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Indian agriculture needs renewal with technology: President
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab), [India], Dec 1 (ANI): President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday said that Indian "agriculture needs a renewal with contemporary technology, protection against climate change, price fluctuations and demand shocks, and sustained investment by and partnership with business"
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Two-day farmer protest rally begins in Delhi
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 29 (ANI): More than one lakh farmers, belonging to 200 farmers' organisations, gathered in the national capital on Thursday to push their demands, including implementation of the MS Swaminathan Committee report, farm loan waiver and better Minimum Support Price (MSP) f
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Parijat offers farmers alternate to hazardous crop burning
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 12 (ANI): The rampant practice of stubble burning has emerged as a major problem in Punjab and Haryana, leading to an increase in the environmental pollution as well as posing a major health hazard to the residents. In line with its commitment to foster best agricultu
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Despite ban, Ludhiana farmers to burn stubble even this year
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Ludhiana (Punjab) [India], Oct 6 (ANI): As the harvest season is around the corner, the threat of air pollution in the northern region is looming due to the burning of paddy stubble.
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Kubota begins sale of industrial engines through KAI in India
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 3 (NewsVoir): Kubota Agricultural Machinery India Pvt. Ltd. (KAI), the Indian subsidiary of Kubota Corporation has announced start of sales of industrial engines for OEMs in addition to current product portfolio that consist of tractors, rice planters, harvesters and p
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Awareness campaign against straw burning by Parijat in UP
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sep 28 (ANI): To create awareness and sensitize farmers about environmental hazards of burning post-harvest agricultural residue, agrochemical company Parijat industries in association with department of agriculture conducted farmer training in the villages of Barabanki
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India signs pacts with Rakhine State for capacity building, economic devel
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Yangon [ Myanmar], Sept 12 (ANI): Indian Embassy on Wednesday signed two agreements with Myanmar's Rakhine State Government to facilitate capacity building and economic development in the province. The pacts will help promote agricultural mechanisation and support computer literacy among the
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