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Telangana CM for big push to crop production
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Feb 4 (ANI): Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao said that the district ministers should initiate measures to form farmers coordination committees to take responsibly of marketing the crops and getting minimum support price (MSP) on it.
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Budget '18: Swaminathan hails MSP hike
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb. 2 (ANI): Agriculture expert and former Rajya Sabha member M.S. Swaminathan has welcomed the Union Budget announcement to keep the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for all unannounced Kharif crops at least at one and a half times of the production cost.
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UP govt taking measures to solve farmers' issues
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Jan 26 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has said that the state government is taking various measures to tackle the farmers' problems in order to provide them a good price for their crops.
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Palaniswami urges K'taka CM to release Cauvery water for TN
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], Jan 13 (ANI): Tamil Nadu Chief Minister E. Palaniswami on Saturday requested his Karnataka counterpart Siddaramaiah to release water from River Cauvery to save the standing crops of farmers in the former's state.
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Horticulture crop production witnesses record-high of 300.6 million tonnes
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 2 (ANI): The production of horticulture crops was reported to be a record-high of 300.6 million tonnes in 2016-17, which is five per cent higher than the previous year, the Department of Agriculture, Cooperation, and Farmers Welfare reported on Tuesday.
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UP Minister's convoy destroys crops, farmer breaks down
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Jalaun (Uttar Pradesh) [India], October 26 (ANI): At a time when the farmers' outcry in the country go in vain, a Uttar Pradesh Minister's convoy drove over a farmer's land in Jalaun and destroyed the farm produce.
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MP CM assures help to drought affected farmers
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 13 (ANI): Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has assured assistance to the drought affected farmers of the state and also announced a compensation for the loss of their crops.
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Navjot Singh Sidhu gave Rs. 15 lakh to farmers whose crops were damaged in
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], October 4 (ANI): Punjab Cabinet Minister and former cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu on Wednesday gave Rs. 15 Lakh to farmers who lost their crops due to fire that broke out in the fields of few villages in Punjab's Amritsar city in April.
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No-tillage alone not enough against water pollution
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sep 24 (ANI): A team of researchers has found that the adoption of no-till - a way of growing crops or pasture from year to year without disturbing the soil through tillage - may increase water pollution from nitrate via leaching.
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Bihar floods: Angry farmers say they haven't received relief from state go
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Muzzafarpur (Bihar) [India], August 31 (ANI): The farmers in Bihar have said that no relief has been provided to them from the state government even as the floods in the state have practically destroyed the fields, damaged standing crops and washed away everything.
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Farmers in Garo Hills switch to banana cultivation
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Shillong (Meghalaya),[India] July 28 (ANI): Meghalaya with its favorable climate for various crops cultivation switched from widespread jhum cultivation to banana cultivation.
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Arunachal grips in celebrations of Dree; Bollywood marks its presence
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Zero (Arunachal Pradesh) [India], July 14 (ANI): Arunachal Pradesh, which is currently gripped in the celebrations of the state's harvest festival 'Dree', the festival, which heralds the growing of seasonal crops in the state, marked the presence of Bollywood Actor Zeenat Aman
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