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e-Gopala app will free farmers from middlemen: PM Modi
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 10 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday, at the launch of the e-Gopala app for livestock owners in Bihar, said that the app will give farmers the freedom from middlemen and provide all information related to productivity, health and diet for the cat
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Karnataka: Smugglers decamp with 150 sandalwood trees
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Shivamogga (Karnataka) [India], September 10 (ANI): Smugglers chopped down 150 sandalwood trees belonging to a farmer and decamped with logs from a village in Shivamogga district in Karnataka.
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Farmer receives Rs 3.71 crore electricity bill in Rajasthan's Udaipur
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Udaipur (Rajasthan) [India], September 9 (ANI): A farmer in Rajasthan's Udaipur received a whopping electricity bill of over Rs 3.71 crore apparently due to fault in the server of the electricity department's computer. The bill was later rectified and the farmer was asked to pay the actual b
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Excess rainfall in south Gujarat damages paddy crop, farmers incur huge lo
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Surat (Gujarat) [India], September 9 (ANI): The framers of south Gujarat are facing huge losses as excess rainfall in the region this year led to accumulation of floodwaters in the fields in several districts, which in turn is damaging the paddy crop.
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Panchayats in J-K's Pulwama make motorized threshers available to farmers
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Pulwama (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], September 8 (ANI): The agriculture department here has started distributing motorized modern paddy thresher machines on panchayat and block level in Pulwama so that farmers of this district can use these machines during paddy and harvesting season.
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Amritsar: Farmers protest against Central ordinances
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], September 8 (ANI): Farmers in Amritsar held a protest against three ordinances of the Central government on Monday.
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7 percent excess rainfall in country so far during monsoon
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 7 (ANI): The Ministry of Earth Sciences said on Monday that the country has so far received 7 per cent excess rainfall and the spread of southwest monsoon this year will help farmers.
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Man shuns USD 100,000 job in USA to to start farming in India
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Kalaburgi (Karnataka) [India], September 7 (ANI): A man in Karnataka left his "monotonous job" in the United States and Dubai to start farming in his village in Kalaburagi district.
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Rs 4,688 crore to be given to MP farmers for damage due to floods
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], September 6 (ANI): Madhya Pradesh Agricultural Minister Kamal Patel on Sunday said that Rs 4,688 crore would be given to 20 lakh farmers who had been affected by floods caused by heavy monsoon rains on September 16 under the Prime Minister's Crop Insurance Sc
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Free power DBT scheme will be beneficial for farmers: Botsa Satyanarayana
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], September 5 (ANI): The free power Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) scheme will be beneficial to the farmers, said Andhra Pradesh Panchayat Raj and Rural Development Minister Botsa Satyanarayana on Saturday.
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CPM condemns permanent free power to farmers by Andhra Govt
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh) [India], September 5 (ANI): Andhra Pradesh CPM Secretary P Madhu has condemned the state government's decision of Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) of permanent free power to farmers.
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UP govt wants to make Bundelkhand hub of organic farming: Yogi Adityanath
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], September 5 (ANI): Observing that Bundelkhand has a lot of potentials, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said his government was looking to make the region a hub of organic farming.
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