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MSP approved for Rabi crops for 2022-23 higher or equal to 1.5 times the c
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 13 (ANI): The MSP approved for designated Rabi crops for the year 2022-23 during rabi marketing season is higher or equal to 1.5 times the cost of production, informed the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
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Punjab CM flays SAD for playing 'double game' on farm laws
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
SBS Nagar (Punjab) [India], September 13 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday said that the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) double-crossed the farmers over the issue of farm laws and claimed that the laws were drafted with the consent of SAD, with Harsimrat Kaur Badal as
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Navjot Singh Sidhu urges Punjab CM to take action on demands raised by 32
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], September 12 (ANI): Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) president Navjot Singh Sidhu on Sunday wrote a letter to Chief Minister Amarinder Singh urging him to take action on the demands raised by 32 farmer unions at the meeting with the Congress Party in Chan
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Narendra Singh Tomar reaches Gujarat, set to discuss probable candidates f
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], September 12 (ANI): Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar on Sunday reached Ahmedabad as Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) central observer over the matter of deciding state's leadership, a day after Vijay Rupani resigned from the
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Union Ministers Pralhad Joshi, Narendra Tomar to visit Gujarat as BJP cent
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 12 (ANI): A day after Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani stepped down from his post, Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Pralhad Joshi and Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar are scheduled to visit the state as Bharatiya
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Odisha CM disburses Rs 742.58 cr aid to farmer families under KALIA scheme
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], September 12 (ANI): On the occasion of the Nuakhai festival, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday disbursed Rs 742.58 crore to 37,12,914 small and marginal farming families under the KALIA Scheme for Rabi crop.
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Khattar calls farmers' protest 'politically motivated', says not all prote
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Haryana) [India], September 11 (ANI): Lashing out at the Congress, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Saturday said that farmers' protests against the farm laws are "politically motivated" and not all protesters are farmers.
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SKM ends gherao of Karnal Mini Secretariat after Haryana govt agrees to su
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 11 (ANI): Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) ended the four-day-long gherao of the Karnal Mini Secretariat on Saturday after the Haryana government agreed to suspend Karnal Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Ayush Sinha, who was seen asking policemen to hit protesting farm
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Farmers are our Bhagya Vidhata, we will do what is necessary for their wel
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 11 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president JP Nadda on Saturday hit out at the Opposition parties for criticising the three farm laws saying that they are misleading the farmers on the minimum support price.
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Centre's motive still not clear: Haryana BKU chief on impasse over agri fa
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Karnal (Haryana) [India], September 11 (ANI): Referring to the ongoing protest by farmers against the three recent Central farm laws, Haryana Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) Chief Gurnam Singh Charuni on Saturday said that although all the issues can be sorted out through talks but the "Centr
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Haryana govt orders probe into Aug 28 lathicharge, agrees to give jobs to
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Karnal (Haryana) [India], September 11 (ANI): Two family members of Satish Kajal, the farmer who was allegedly killed in the lathicharge by Karnal police on August 28, will be compensated with jobs at the deputy commissioner (DC) rate on sanctioned posts, informed Haryana Additional Chief Se
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Farmers attacked 17 times in last 2 years, says Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Ra
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], September 11 (ANI): Condemning the lathi-charge on the farmers in Karnal last month, Maharashtra MP and Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Saturday said that the farmers have been attacked 17 times in the last two years of their protest.
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