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Apple production soars due to high-density plants in Kashmir
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], Sept 21 (ANI): The production of apples is in full swing in Kashmir valley with the help of High-Density Plants (HDP). These plants, which are used at a larger scale, not only produce good quality of apples but also provide with a better quantity.
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UP Farmers' protest: Priyanka Gandhi comes down heavily on BJP govt
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 21 (ANI): Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday came down heavily on BJP-led Central government for preventing the farmers from entering the national capital to raise their demands.
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Cong to fight on issues of farmers, common people in Maharashtra, Haryana
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 21 (ANI): The Congress will raise the issues affecting the daily lives of the common people and the plight of farmers during campaigning for the upcoming elections in Maharashtra and Haryana next month, said the party's spokesperson Pawan Khera on Saturday.
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Govt should consider demands of protesting farmers: BSP
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 21 (ANI): Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Sudhindra Bhadoria on Saturday claimed that the farmers are reeling under poverty and that the government must fulfill their demand in order to uplift them.
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Slow traffic movement in Anand Vihar due to farmers protest at NH-24
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Anand Vihar (New Delhi) [India], Sept 21 (ANI): The protest march by the Uttar Pradesh farmers on Saturday at the NH-24 Delhi-UP border resulted in slow down of traffic at the Anand Vihar area.
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Farmers' march: 11 member farmers delegation to meet Agricultural Ministry
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Sept 21 (ANI): After police stopped the protesting farmers from marching towards Kisan Ghat in Delhi, an 11-member delegation of farmers will be meeting officials at the Ministry of Agriculture, allegedly in their last-ditch attempt to have their demands accepted by the go
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Farmers' march: Police personnel equipped with riot gear to halt farmers f
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Noida (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Sept 21 (ANI): Security was beefed up with barricades put across the roads to stop protesting farmers from reaching national capital from the adjoining Uttar Pradesh on Saturday at East Delhi's Ghazipur border.
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UP farmers begin march towards Kisan Ghat in Delhi
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Noida (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Sept 21 (ANI): A large group of farmers from various parts of Uttar Pradesh started their march on Saturday morning from Sector 69, Noida, towards Kisan Ghat in New Delhi, over their demands of payment of sugarcane crop dues, full loan waiver and making elec
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Farmers to march to Delhi's Kishan Ghat in protest against power hike, sug
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Noida (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Sept 20 (ANI): A large group of farmers from various parts of western UP gathered in Noida on Thursday and are scheduled to march to Kishan Ghat in Delhi on Saturday, to protest against hiked electricity rates and the money from sugarcane sales that government
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States should take advantage of favourable weather conditions for better R
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 20 (ANI): Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Parshottam Rupala said on Friday that a record 285 million tonnes production of food grains has been achieved so far and urged the states to take advantage of favorable weather conditions for better produ
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Left parties demand farm loan waiver, unemployment allowance
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi[India], September 20 (ANI): The Left parties on Friday slammed the management of the economy by the Modi government and demanded unemployment allowance for youth, minimum wage of Rs 18000 per month, increase in MGNREGA allocations and one-time loan waiver for farmers.
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Rahul Gandhi should apologise for failing to waive farm loans in 10 days:
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Sept 19 (ANI): Congress leader Lakshman Singh, younger brother of senior party leader Digvijaya Singh, said on Thursday that Rahul Gandhi must apologise to the farmers of the state for failing to fulfil his promise that the party government would waive far
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