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Goa: Deputy CM meets Governor, holds talks over developing agriculture
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Panaji (Goa) [India], Nov 11 (ANI): Deputy Chief Minister Chandrakant Kavlekar met Governor Satya Pal Malik on Monday and discussed with him about the initiatives taken by the Department of Agriculture.
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Nepal: Protestors burn Xi's effigy in protest against Chinese encroachment
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Bardiya [Nepal], Nov 11 (ANI): Chinese President Xi Jinping's effigy was burnt on Monday during a protest against Bejing for encroaching upon a chunk of Nepal's land.
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Expelled PDP MP writes to Agri Min over losses to Kashmiri apple growers d
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 11 (ANI): Expelled Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) MP Nazir Ahmad Laway on Monday wrote a letter to the Union Agriculture Minister seeking his intervention for assessing the damage caused to the apple crop following the recent untimely snowfall and for compensating the
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Amarinder Singh orders govt deptts to incentivise farmers who refrained fr
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], Nov 8 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday ordered the Agriculture Department to work out the modalities for immediate implementation of the Supreme Court's orders on providing financial assistance to small and marginal farmers who have
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Traditional agriculture was organic farming 'by default', claims UAHS rese
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Shivamogga(Karnataka) [India] Nov 8 (ANI): Explaining farming techniques, a young research associate, Ullas MY from University of Agriculture and Horticulture Sciences (UAHS) in Shivamogga said that traditional farming and organic farming are same "by default".
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PM calls for priority distribution of equipment to farmers in Punjab, Hary
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 6 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday chaired the 31st interaction through 'PRAGATI' and asked the Agriculture Ministry to distribute equipment to farmers of Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh on a priority basis to tackle stubble burning.
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12 per cent reduction in stubble burning incidents, says Agriculture Minis
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 5 (ANI): The Agriculture Ministry said on Tuesday that there has been nearly 12 per cent reduction in stubble burning incidents compared to the same period in 2018, with 31,402 such incidents detected, of which Punjab accounts for a maximum of 25,366 cases.
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India opting out of RCEP breather for agricultural and industrial sectors:
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], Nov 5 (ANI): YSR Congress Party on Tuesday lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi for storming out of Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) or FreeTrade Agreement, saying that it is a breather for the agriculture and industrial sectors of the cou
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This is definitely bad publicity, says economist Surjit Bhalla on pollutio
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 4 (ANI): India's representative to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Surjit Bhalla on Monday said that worsening pollution in the nation's capital is bad for the country's image and the problem which has been growing for the past 25 years, needs to be tackled by a
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Punjab: PPCB organises street plays to aware farmers on stubble burning
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], Nov 4 (ANI): Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) on Monday in association with Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) launched an awareness campaign, including organizing of street plays, on the issue of stubble burning.
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Opposition parties politicising sand scarcity issue: AP Minister Kurasala
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], Nov 2 (ANI): Andhra Pradesh Agriculture Minister Kurasala Kannababu and Irrigation Minister Anil Kumar on Saturday criticised the 'Long March' to be held by Jana Sena Party (JSP) chief Pawan Kalyan in Visakhapatnam tomorrow.
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200 million euros to be earmarked for bus sector reform in TN: Angela Merk
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 2 (ANI): German Chancellor Angela Merkel, on a three-day visit to India, on Saturday said that 200 million euros (about Rs 1,580 crore) will be earmarked to reform the bus sector in Tamil Nadu and one billion dollars have also been earmarked towards the Indo-German
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