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Today's announcements by FM will especially benefit migrant workers, farme
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 14 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's announcements relating to Rs 20 lakh crore stimulus package will especially benefit migrant workers and farmers.
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Second stimulus tranche offers ration and rent for migrant workers, urban
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 14 (ANI): Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday announced the second tranche of Rs 20 lakh crore stimulus package with a focus on migrant workers, street vendors, small traders, self-employed people and small farmers.
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Punjab farmers advised cultivating PR 128, PR 129 varieties of non-Basmati
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], May 14 (ANI): Punjab's Agriculture Department, on the recommendations of Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), has advised farmers to go for cultivation of PR-128 and PR-129 varieties of non-Basmati, which are less water-intensive, for better paddy straw manageme
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Self-reliant economy depends on whether farmers, working-class is self-suf
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 14 (ANI): A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave a call for building 'Atmanirbhar Bharat' (self-reliant India), senior Congress leader P Chidambaram said that a self-reliant economy will depend on whether farmers are self-reliant and working-class are self-su
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Siddaramaiah calls Centre's relief measures 'disastrous'
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 13 (ANI): Former chief minister and senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Wednesday called the measures announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman as 'disastrous' and said it is 'non-existent' in terms of benefits to poor migrants, labourers, contrac
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Priyanka Gandhi writes to Adityanath, suggests measures for welfare of far
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 13 (ANI): Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday wrote a letter to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath suggesting various measures for the welfare of farmers and businesses in view of COVID-19 pandemic.
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COVID-19: Farmers in UP's Moradabad move towards cultivating medicinal pla
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Moradabad (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 13 (ANI): Amid the coronavirus pandemic, farmers in the Moradabad area are cultivating medicinal plants, aromatic plants and herbs in order to boost earning and livelihood.
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Andhra Pradesh: Tirupati (Urban) SP takes part in agricultural work with
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Chittoor (Andhra Pradesh) [India], May 13 (ANI): The Superintendent of Police of Tirupati (Urban) Avula Ramesh Reddy took part in agricultural work with the farmers while he was on a patrol on Tuesday.
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Swarms of locusts invade Ajmer, cause damage to crops
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Ajmer (Rajasthan) [India], May 13 (ANI): Adding to the woes of farmers who are already bearing the brunt of national lockdown which has adversely affected the agriculture, swarms of locusts invaded the district from Nagaur side on Tuesday.
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Decision to have regulatory cultivation in Telangana will benefit farmers:
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], May 13 (ANI): Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao has said that a decision to have regulatory agricultural cultivation in the state has been taken with the sole aim of benefitting farmers.
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Jharkhand releases Rs 25 L for each district as compensation for farmers w
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Ranchi (Jharkhand) [India], May 12 (ANI): Jharkhand Disaster Management Department has released Rs 25 lakh for each district in the state as compensation for farmers whose crops were devastated by the recent rain shower and hailstorm.
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177 new mandis integrated with eNAM platform for marketing agricultural pr
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 11 (ANI): Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Monday unveiled integration of 177 new mandis with National Agriculture Market (eNAM) to strengthen agriculture marketing and facilitate farmers to sell their harvested produce through the online portal.
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