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Nepal farmers face fertilizer shortage, government trying to buy it from I
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], June 29 (ANI): Nepal farmers face a shortage of fertilizers during the peak harvest season that could reduce food availability and incomes, but the silver lining is that Nepal is trying to purchase fertilizers from India through a government to government agreement.
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Agriwise Raises debt funding from Maanaveeya, the Indian subsidiary of Oik
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 5 (ANI/BusinessWire India): AgriwiseFinserv Limited, one of India's fastest growing agri-focussed NBFCs, today announced that it had obtained a secure credit facility from Maanaveeya Development & Finance Private Limited (Maanaveeya). Maanaveeya is the I
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Vice President calls for improving cotton yield to enhance farmers' income
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 13 (ANI): Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday called upon all stakeholders to make concerted efforts to improve cotton yield and productivity in India to enhance farmers' incomes.
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Rising agri exports helping in increasing farmers' incomes: Commerce Minis
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), April 12 (ANI): Having achieved the highest ever agriculture exports of more than USD 50 billion, a senior Commerce Ministry official said the jump is also helping in increasing the income of farmers whose produces are now selling in international markets.
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Campaign on social security entitlements launched in four states by Action
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 31 (ANI/Target Media): The multiple waves of COVID-19 pandemic and the consequent socio-economic distress have affected everyone in ways more than one. The impact has been acute for marginalised communities who had to suffer loss of livelihoods and incomes. Countless
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World Bank supports Bangladesh farmers vulnerable to climate change
Updated : 3 years, 12 months ago IST
Washington [US], March 17 (ANI/Xinhua): Bangladesh and the World Bank have signed a 120 million US dollars financing agreement to help improve the irrigated agricultural and fisheries production and increase the incomes of 170,000 poor people vulnerable to climate change.
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Varanasi's boatmen say business booming with implementation of PM Modi's i
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], March 1 (ANI): Boatmen in Varanasi, the parliamentary constituency represented by Prime Minister Narendra Modi say they have seen a rise in their incomes by almost 10 times in the last few years since the BJP came to power in the Centre and in the state.&
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World Bank offers $115 million loan for rejuvenating watersheds in India
Updated : 4 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 18 (ANI): The World Bank will provide $115 million (Rs 869 crore) loan to fund a programme in India that will help national and state institutions adopt improved watershed management practices to increase farmers' resilience to climate change, promote higher produ
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One in five family sends children to work as incomes drop: Report
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], February 14 (ANI): Up to one-fifth of families in Afghanistan have been forced to send their children out to work as incomes have plummeted in the past six months with an estimated one million children now engaged in child labour, according to a humanitarian organization
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40 new Indians enter billionaire club in 2021 while incomes of 84 per cent
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 17 (ANI): During 2021, 40 new Indians became billionaires, taking the total count to 142, while 84 per cent of households in the country suffered a decline in their income in a year marked by tremendous loss of life and livelihoods, according to an Oxfam report rel
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Wealth of 10 richest person doubled while incomes of 99 per cent people de
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 17 (ANI): The world's ten richest men more than doubled their fortunes from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion --at a rate of $15,000 per second or $1.3 billion a day-- during the first two years of a pandemic that has seen the incomes of 99 per cent of humanity fall an
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ADB, India sign USD 100 million loan for agribusiness development in Mahar
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 28 (ANI): The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of India on Wednesday signed a USD 100 million loan to promote the agribusiness network to boost farm incomes and reduce food losses in the state of Maharashtra.
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