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Telangana CM to chair meeting on May 21 over crop cultivation in state
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], May 19 (ANI): Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao is slated to hold a high-level meeting with district officials on May 21 to finalise the policy on regulated crop pattern and discuss district-wise cultivation of specific crops.
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Punjab CM urges PM to allow work under MGNREGS in rabi, kharif crop operat
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], May 18 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to allow labour/cardholders under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) work in farm operations for both Kharif and Rabi crop
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Tribal families become part of 'Subhiksha Keralam' project, take up farmin
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Idukki (Kerala) [India], May 18 (ANI): In an effort to ensure self-reliance, the tribal community in Kerala's Munnar has taken up farming on a large scale. As part of 'Subhiksha Keralam' project, 150 tribal families have taken up farming by converting fallow land in the area for growing crop
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Rescue farmers from losses due to 'very low prices' in open market: Nara L
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], May 16 (ANI): TDP national general secretary Nara Lokesh on Saturday said that YSRCP-led Andhra Pradesh government should initiate village-level procurement of crops in order to rescue farmers from losses and debts due to 'very low prices' in the open mark
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Swarms of locusts invade Ajmer, cause damage to crops
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Ajmer (Rajasthan) [India], May 13 (ANI): Adding to the woes of farmers who are already bearing the brunt of national lockdown which has adversely affected the agriculture, swarms of locusts invaded the district from Nagaur side on Tuesday.
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Jharkhand releases Rs 25 L for each district as compensation for farmers w
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Ranchi (Jharkhand) [India], May 12 (ANI): Jharkhand Disaster Management Department has released Rs 25 lakh for each district in the state as compensation for farmers whose crops were devastated by the recent rain shower and hailstorm.
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Telangana CM reviews crop cultivation pattern in the state
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], May 11 (ANI): Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Sunday took an elaborate review on crop cultivation pattern in the state and identification of alternative crops to make farmers go in for a regulatory cultivation, ensuring Minimum Support Price
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Crops in Jodhpur village damaged in locust attack
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Jodhpur (Rajasthan) [India], May 10 (ANI): Swarms of locusts hit Sirmandi village in Jodhpur causing widespread crop loss for farmers.
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SAD President asks Punjab CM to give incentives to farmers for switching f
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], May 8 (ANI): Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal on Friday requested Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh to introduce an incentive linked crop diversification plan on the pattern of Haryana by announcing an incentive of Rs 10,000 per acre t
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UP: Farmers suffer loss of mango crop in Malihabad town due to untimely ra
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], April 28 (ANI): Untimely rainfall and strong winds wreaked havoc in mango orchards by destroying the harvest in Malihabad town in Lucknow district.
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Rains damage standing crops in Ambala
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Ambala (Haryana) [India], April 26 (ANI): The standing crops were heavily damaged following the unseasonal rains in the district on Sunday.
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Coronavirus lockdown: Haryana prohibits Rabi crop transportation from neig
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Haryana) [India], April 24 (ANI): In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Haryana DGP Manoj Yadava on Friday instructed all the District Police Chiefs to take action to prevent the arrival of wheat and mustard crops from neighboring states to the procurement centres of the state.
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