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Government exempts agriculture-farming from lockdown to ensure harvesting
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 28 (ANI): In a relief to farmers during the lockdown, the government has granted relaxation to agriculture-farming and allied activities to ensure uninterrupted harvesting of crops.
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Punjab allows harvesting of horticulture produces with conditions
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], Mar 27 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has ordered the concerned departments to allow harvesting and marketing of horticulture produce by farmers with necessary restrictions relating to COVID-19 precautions.
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Harvesting, procurement of crops should be declared part of essential serv
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 26 (ANI): The Congress on Thursday said that harvesting and procurement operations should be declared part of essential services during the lockdown, saying that wheat in an area of 334 lakh hectare was ready to be harvested and a farmer will lose 40 per cent of stan
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Manipur based brothers create low-cost paddy threshing machine
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Imphal (Manipur) [India], Feb 13 (ANI): In a bid to make paddy harvesting easier and more affordable for farmers, two brothers from Manipur have pioneered an innovative low-cost paddy threshing machine.
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30,000 women get uterus removed to earn during menstruation, Raut tells Th
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Nagpur (Maharashtra) [India], Dec 25 (ANI): Nitin Raut, who is chairman of the AICC's scheduled caste department on Wednesday, wrote a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray urging him to take some significant steps to help the women working in the sugarcane fields of the stat
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Thirumala Devaswom temple practices rainwater harvesting, supply water to
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India], Dec 7 (ANI): The management of Thirumala Devaswom temple in Kochi has been practising rainwater harvesting at the temple premises since 2004.
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People are consuming oysters in months with 'r' from 4000 years
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C [USA], Dec 01 (ANI): Tradition dictates only eating wild oysters during months containing the letter 'r' -- from September to April to keep food poisoning at bay and now a new study has suggested that the norm is being followed for at least 4,000 years.
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Harvesting fog can provide fresh water in desert regions: Study
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C [USA], Nov 27 (ANI): The upcoming technology fog harvesting, also known as 'Moisture farming' is not just for the deserts of Tatooine. Fog harvesting technology may provide an additional freshwater source in foggy coastal areas with little precipitation.
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Kalaburagi City Corporation Commissioner installs rainwater harvesting fac
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Kalaburagi (Karnataka) [India], Nov 2 (ANI): Kalaburagi City Corporation Commissioner Rahul Pandve has installed a rainwater harvesting facility at his official residence with his own money as a step to promote conservation of water.
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Yogi Adityanath tells farmers to stop stubble burning
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Oct 14 (ANI): Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday here appealed to farmers to avoid burning the stubble that is left in the fields after harvesting of crops.
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China harvesting organs from minorities, including Uighur Muslims: Activis
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sep 29 (ANI): China was accused of harvesting organs from prosecuted minority groups, during a United Nations Human Rights Council meeting earlier this week.
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India to spend USD 50 billion on water conservatism: PM Modi
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [US], Sept 23 (ANI): India will spend approximately USD 50 billion on water conservation, rainwater harvesting, and the development of water resources in the next few years under the Jal-Jeevan Mission, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday.
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