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Andhra land pooling policy aimed at making farmers ultimate gainers: Chand
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Amravati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], July 12 (ANI): Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu has said that his government's new land pooling scheme is aimed at making the farmer the ultimate gainer, as farmers have voluntarily given up their land for infrastructure building in
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Centre issues notification to increase import duty on sugar: Paswan
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 11 (ANI): Union Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Tuesday said that the Centre has issued a notification to increase the import duty on sugar to 50 percent from 40 percent, to restrict cheap inward shipments and protect farmers.
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UP budget devoted to welfare of farmers, public: Maurya
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India] July 10 (ANI): Ahead of the budget session in Uttar Pradesh, the state's Deputy Chief Minister, Keshav Prasad Maurya, on Monday said it will be devoted to the welfare of people and farmers.
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Madhya Pradesh: Financial crisis forces farmer to use daughters to pull pl
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Sehore (Madhya Pradesh) [India], July 09 (ANI): Financial crisis reduced a farmer in Sehore's Basantpur Pangri village to use his two daughters, instead of oxen to pull the plough in their fields.
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SC asks Govt. to change approach towards farmers' crisis
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 7 (ANI): While hearing a petition filed by the Tamil Nadu Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL), the Supreme today observed that the Government's approach towards the farmers' crisis should be preventive rather than compensatory.
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SC on farmer policies: Move from paper to implementation
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] July 6 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Thursday expressed deep concern over the farmers' suicides in India and said that now time has come to move from paper to the implementation of the pro-farmer policies.
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Yogendra Yadav, Medha Patkar detained during farmers' rally in Mandsa
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], July 6 (ANI): Swaraj Abhiyan chief Yogendra Yadav, activists Medha Patkar, Paras Saklecha and others were detained by police during a farmers rally in Mandsaur district of Madhya Pradesh.
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Strategic partnership in agriculture with Israel aimed at doubling farmer
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Jerusalem [Israel], July 5 (ANI): The strategic partnership in water and agriculture with Israel is aimed at the Indian Government's goal of doubling farmer incomes by 2022, said Foreign Secretary Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Wednesday.
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Gujarat: Outraged farmers waste massive amounts of milk in protest
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], July 05 (ANI): After Maharashtra, and Madhya Pradesh, now the farmer's outrage demanding loans waiver has reached Gujarat.
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J&K: Govt. organises 'kisan mela' to boost agriculture
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], July 5 (ANI): The Jammu and Kashmir government (J&K) organised mega machinery 'cum seed festival' to benefit the farmers, and boost the overall agricultural sector of valley in Srinagar on Tuesday.
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MP: Farmer critical after suicide attempt
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Sehore (Madhya Pradesh), July 4 (ANI): Agrarian crisis seems to have enveloped Madhya Pradesh, as yet another farmer tried to take his life over loan woes.
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SC stays Madras HC order directing TN Govt to waive farmers' loans
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 3, (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday put a stay on the Madras High Court order directing Tamil Nadu government to waive loans of all drought-hit farmers.
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