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UP govt plans to double farmers' income under 'Panchamrut Yojana'
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India] August 4 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday, announced that Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's Panchamrut Yojana will help to achieve the goal of doubling farmers' income through the introduction of cost-effective technical measures and promotion of co-
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Floods in Sindh destroy cotton crops, leave farmers devastated
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Sindh [Pakistan], August 4 (ANI): Following torrential rains, southern Pakistan has been hit by heavy floods damaging cotton crops which has turned the lives of farmers in Sindh upside down as the rains destroyed thousands of acres of agricultural land and orchards.
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No shortage of wheat stock in India, Union Agriculture Minister informs Pa
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 3 (ANI): The government has reiterated that there is no shortage of wheat stock in the central pool.
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Karnataka CM to chair meeting to discuss measures to tackle Monkeypox, cro
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], August 1 (ANI): Amid rising concerns over the Monkeypox cases in the country and crops losses owing to heavy rainfall in the state, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Monday informed that he will chair two meetings on Tuesday to discuss about the matt
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Poverty compels few Sri Lankan women towards prostitution
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], July 31 (ANI): As Sri Lanka is gripped under a reeling economic crisis, numerous women in the country have changed their professions and turned to prostitution for daily meals.
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Samyukt Kisan Morcha hold 'rail roko' stir across Punjab over MSP issue
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], July 31 (ANI): Farmers across Punjab are holding a four-hour 'rail roko' protest from 11 am to 3 pm on Sunday in response to a call given for a nationwide protest by the Samyukt Kisan Morcha(SKM), an umbrella group comprising around 40 farm organisations, primar
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Makeshift brothels crop up in Sri Lanka as economic hardship pushes women
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], July 30 (ANI): In Sri Lanka, which is battling a crushing economic crisis, is now facing another predicament with its women, most of them who have lost their jobs in the textile sector, now forced to become sex workers to earn a livelihood.
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Amid scorching heatwave China's power usage hits record-breaking levels
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Beijing [China], July 27 (ANI): China continues to remain under the grip of an extreme heatwave and this has in turn threatened crops and people's lives and pushed China's power usage to record-breaking levels, media reports said.
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Fly ash emanating from thermal power station in Nagpur leads to contaminat
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Nagpur (Maharashtra) [India], July 22 (ANI): The Fly ash emanating from the Koradi Thermal Power Station (KTPS) on Thursday, lead to the contamination of crops and water in Nagpur.
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Government says intervention helped cool off prices of onion, tomato
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 20 (ANI): The all-India retail price of tomato has registered a 29 per cent decline over the last month as arrivals of the staple vegetable into the mandis improved with the onset of monsoon rains, a Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food, and Public Distribution state
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Bihar Govt gives diesel subsidy to farmers for irrigation of crops
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], July 19 (ANI): Bihar Council of Ministers in a meeting decided to give diesel subsidies to farmers for irrigation of crops in view of monsoon, drought, and short rainfall in the state.
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Farmers' income doubled for certain crops in past 5 years, shows SBI study
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 19 (ANI): Incomes of farmers have doubled for certain crops in some states from 2017-18 to 2021-22, a study conducted by SBI Research showed.
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