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Bundelkhand: Farmers perform rituals to please rain god
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Bundelkhand (Uttar Pradesh [India], June 24 (ANI): As drought takes roots in Gopalpur village situated in Kanpur, farmers performed rituals in order to please the rain god and get sufficient rainfall this year.
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Uddhav Thackeray threatens insurance companies over non-payment of crop cl
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Aurangabad (Maharashtra) [India], June 22 (ANI): Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday threatened the insurance companies over the non-payment of farmers' crop claims under the Prime Minister Crop Insurance Scheme.
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Government is with you, Maha Cabinet Minister Deshmukh and Bonde to farmer
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 22 (ANI): Two Maharashtra cabinet ministers on Saturday assured government support to distressed crop growers and appealed to them to not commit suicide.
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Castrol India sows seeds of good health for farmers with Castrol Khet Aasa
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] June 22 (ANI/BusinessWire India): Castrol India Limited, the leading automotive and industrial lubricant manufacturing company in the country, today announced its health outreach programme for the food providers of the nation - the farming community.
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Centre to use digital technology to transform agriculture, double farmers'
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 22 (ANI): In a bid to double farmers' income by the year 2022, the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare is set to use digital technology to modernise and organise agricultural activities in rural India.
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On Rahul Gandhi's birthday, NSUI offers to pay fee of slain security perso
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), June 19 (ANI): Congress' student wing NSUI on Wednesday announced to pay a year's fee of Delhi University students whose security personnel or farmer parents died on duty or committed suicide due to farm loan.
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Strict action will be taken against firm selling unapproved cotton seeds:
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Akola (Maharashtra) [India], June 18 (ANI): Strict action will be taken against the companies which are selling unapproved cotton seeds to farmers in the state, said Agriculture Minister Sadabhau Khot on Tuesday.
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Maha Govt presented 'misleading data' on farmer's crisis, economic survey:
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 18 (ANI): Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leaders held a protest at Maharash Assembly over the issue of farm loan waiver and state government policies.
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Farmer attempted suicide before Maharashtra minister
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Buldana (Maharashtra) [India], June 18 (ANI): A farmer attempted to commit suicide by consuming poison in the presence of State Energy MoS, MM Yerawar's in Buldhana on Saturday.
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Ingenious 'bike' for climbing Areca nut tree to make farmers' lives easier
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Mangaluru (Karnataka) [India], June 16 (ANI): In wake of the fact that there is a shortage of traditional Areca nut tree climbers, farmers here are finding it difficult to sustain the Areca nut plantation. However, a 48-year-old farmer, Ganapathi, took it as a challenge and invented ingeniou
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Hoshiarpur farmer sets a shining example of apple cultivation in Punjab
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Hoshiarpur (Punjab) [India], June 16 (ANI): Traditionally limited to states like Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Arunachal Pradesh, apple cultivation has now picked up pace in Punjab. Gurinder Singh Bajwa, a farmer from Ludhiana, is producing apples on a large scale in his farm in
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Manipur farmers opt for lesser pesticides to yield better profits
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Bishnupur (Manipur) [India], June 15 (ANI): Farming in Manipur is changing one farmhand at a time, wherein Heirangkhongjam Shantikumar, a native of Leimaram Mamang Leikai village, cultivates crops on his 1.5 hectares (approx.) of land on minimal pesticides with a profit of Rs 5 lakh annuall
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