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Govt allocates Rs 16000 crore for Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana for 202
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 7 (ANI): Union government has allocated Rs 16,000 crores for Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) for the fiscal year 2021-22 to boost the safety of farmers' crops and to ensure that maximum benefit of crop insurance reaches farmers.
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Himachal CM inaugurates nutrition garden at Palampur Agriculture Universit
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], February 7 (ANI): Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Sunday inaugurated a Golden Jubilee Nutrition Garden at Chaudhary Sarwan Kumar Himachal Pradesh Agriculture University Palampur built under a Rs 19 crore environment sustainability plan.
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New agriculture cess will fund farm infrastructure, says FM Sitharaman
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], February 7 (ANI): Elaborating on the Agriculture Infrastructure and Development Cess (AIDC), a new cess announced in the union budget 2020-21, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday said that with AIDC, the central government will have some money
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Farmers' protest: Heavy security deployment continues at Tikri border
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 7 (ANI): Heavy security deployment continued at the Tikri border (Delhi-Haryana border) on Sunday morning as farmers' protest against three agriculture laws enters the 74th day.
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J-K: National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture helps Ritti villagers in
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Udhampur (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], February 7 (ANI): The locals of Ritti village in Udhampur district, which recently become the first Panchayat to be adopted under the National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA) in Jammu and Kashmir, are buying cattle under the scheme to increase
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Being in opposition, Congress feels it should oppose everything: Pralhad J
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], February 6 (ANI): Asserting that the central government implemented the same agriculture reforms which were mentioned in Congress party's manifesto for 2019 general election, Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Pralhad Joshi on Saturday said that being in t
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Rahul Gandhi says farm laws dangerous for country, offers support to prote
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 6 (ANI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday extended support to the agitating farmers and said that the new agriculture laws are not only dangerous for them, but for the whole country.
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Punjab Contract Farming Act has provision to jail farmers, in Centre's law
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 6 (ANI): Punjab Government's Contract Farming Act has a provision to send farmers behind the bars and fine of up to Rs 5 lakh whereas in the Government of India's Act a farmer can exit a contract anytime, said Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar. Read More
'Khoon ki kheti' jibe was made in reference to Congress document, says Tom
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 5 (ANI): Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Friday said his "khoon ki kheti" jibe against Congress in the Rajya Sabha earlier in the day was made in the context of a document shown by Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge.
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Opposition leaders not telling what is 'black' in the new farm laws, says
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 5 (ANI): Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Friday said that opposition has failed to point flaws in new farm laws and the opposition did not discuss provisions of these legislations during the motion of thanks to the President's Address in Rajy
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Comparing Ghazipur with India-Pak border, Oppn demands discussion on agri
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 5 (ANI): Member of Parliaments (MPs) from various opposition parties have in a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, compared the situation at Delhi-Ghazipur border with India-Pakistan border and demanded a separate discussion on the issue of new agriculture laws.
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Centre trying to ensure requisite investment reaches agriculture sector: T
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 5 (ANI): Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Friday said that Rs 1 lakh crore agriculture infrastructure fund has been provided under the Atmanirbhar package and the Centre has tried to ensure that requisite investment reaches the agriculture sec
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