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Andhra farmer dies by suicide after incurring heavy debts
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Krishna District (Andhra Pradesh) [India], January 20 (ANI): A tenant farmer allegedly committed suicide on Tuesday night for allegedly incur heavy debts in Chandarlapadu village of Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh, police said.
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Losing job in pandemic, Udhampur engineer restarts life with mushroom farm
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Udhampur (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], January 10 (ANI): After the COVID-19 lockdown hit livelihoods in Jammu and Kashmir, an engineer took up mushroom farming with the help of district authorities in a bid to improve their livelihood and inculcate new farming methods.
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With timely snowfall, apple growers from J-K's Udhampur hope for good crop
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Udhampur (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], January 5 (ANI): With timely snowfall in the Jammu and Kashmir, apple growers from Udhampur's Karlah hoped for a quality crop this season.
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Congress threatens to launch agitation against Goa govt if cannabis cultiv
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Panjim (Goa) [India], December 31 (ANI): Reacting on the issue of the Indian Institute of Integrated Medicine's proposal to cultivate cannabis in the state, the Goa Pradesh Congress Committee on Wednesday said it will launch an agitation if Pramod Sawant government fails to scrap it.
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Goa not interested in cannabis cultivation proposal: Pramod Sawant
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Panjim (Goa) [India], December 31 (ANI): Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Wednesday said that his government is currently not interested in the cannabis cultivation proposal sent by the Indian Institute of Integrated Medicine.
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National Medicinal Plants Board launches consortia for medicinal plants
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 28 (ANI): The National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB) on Monday launched consortia for medicinal plants to deliberate on quality planting material, research and development, cultivation and trade of medicinal plants.
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Bid to save red rice from extinction: HP to bring 4,000 hectare land under
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], December 13 (ANI): In a bid to give red rice, which is "on the verge of extinction" a new lease of life, the Himachal Pradesh government has fixed a target to bring around 4,000 hectares of land under its cultivation and produce around 40,000 quintals of th
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Advanced research centre playing vital role in saffron cultivation
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Pampore (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], November 10 (ANI): An advanced research centre at Dussu area of Jammu and Kashmir's Pampore district playing a vital role in boosting the cultivation of saffron in the region.
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Assam CM, Israeli envoy lay foundation for joint agriculture project worth
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Guwahati (Assam) [India], November 3 (ANI): Assam Chief Minister Sarbanada Sonowal and Ambassador of Israel to India, Ron Malka on Monday laid the foundation stone of the Indo-Israel Centre of Excellence for Vegetables Protected Cultivation at Khetri in Kamrup (Metro) district.
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Farmers begin cultivating asafoetida in Himachal's Lahaul valley, thanks t
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 19 (ANI): Farmers of the remote Lahaul valley in Himachal Pradesh are now taking up cultivation of asafoetida (Heeng) on the vast expanses of wasteland in the cold desert conditions of the region, owing to efforts of a CSIR constituent laboratory, the Institute of
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Telangana CM call for qualitative changes in horticulture crops
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], October 15 (ANI): Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao on Wednesday expressed the desire that there should be qualitative changes in the cultivation and growing of vegetables, fruits, flowers and other horticulture crops and for this, the Department of
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Not advisable to go in for corn cultivation in state: Agriculture Experts
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], October 11 (ANI): Agriculture experts and officials have advised Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao against maize cultivation in the State in view of adverse conditions in the country for the crop and storage of corn.
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