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UP farmer's daughters plough field to please rain God
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Jhansi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], July 02 (ANI): Faced with the prospect of going yet another monsoon season without proper rainfall, two daughters of a farmer in Uttar Pradesh's Jhansi district have joined their father in ploughing the field to appease the rain God, Lord Indra.
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Rythu Bandhu Investment support scheme not for tenant farmers: KCR
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], June 30 (ANI): Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao on Saturday made it clear that the Rythu Bandhu Investment support scheme for agriculture is meant to provide investment to farmers for their crops, but is not meant for tenant farmers.
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'Transparency between farmer and market main aim of eNAM'
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], June 30 (ANI): On the sidelines of the two-day Agri Vikas-2018 programme, Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said the main aim of the central government's National Agricultural Market (e-NAM) platform is to bring transparency between a f
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Silk reeling, spinning unit launched in Manipur to promote sericulture
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Imphal (Manipur) [India] June 29(ANI): With an aim to encourage the local farmers to take up mulberry farming and silkworm rearing, Manipur Sericulture department launched a silk reeling and spinning unit in Bishnupur's Ngaikhong Khullen village.
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Nepali farmers bear brunt of climate change
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Lalitpur [Nepal], June 29 (ANI): Farmers in Nepal have been bearing the brunt of climate change and inadequate rainfall as they have to replace the traditional irrigation canals with 'costly' high power generators to plant their crops.
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Banker, peon suspended for seeking sexual favour against loan sanction
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Buldhana (Maharashtra) [India], June 24 (ANI): The manager and a peon of the Central Bank of India's Datala branch here have been suspended for demanding sexual favours from the wife of a farmer, who applied for a crop loan on Saturday.
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Farmers protest after banker seeks sexual favour in exchange for crop loan
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Chandrapur (Maharashtra) [India], June 24 (ANI): The Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana staged a protest in front of the Datala branch of Central Bank of India on Saturday after the bank manager and his peon allegedly demanded sexual favours from the wife of a farmer, who had applied for a crop
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Ask banks to expedite process of distributing crop loans: Fadnavis to Cent
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 24 (ANI): Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis wrote a letter to the Centre demanding that all banks in the state be directed to expedite the process of distributing crop loans to farmers.
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Without food security, there is no national security: VP
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], June 23 (ANI): Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu said making agriculture sustainable and profitable should be the top agenda of both Centre and state governments.
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Debt-ridden farmer commits suicide in MP
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Mandsaur (Madhya Pradesh), [India], June 20 (ANI): A farmer has allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself to a tree in Madhya Pradesh's Mandsaur district.
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Centre striving to double farmer's income by 2022: PM Modi
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jun 20 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that the Central government is working to ensure the doubling of farmer's income by 2022.
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Farmers essential for our survival, says PM Modi
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jun 20 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday credited farmers for their hard work in ensuring the country's food security, saying that farmers were essential for the survival of the population.
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