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Kerala: Bison Valley turns golden as 40-acre sunflower farm replaces fallo
Updated : 4 weeks, 1 day ago IST
Jijo Joseph Puthenveettil of Bison Valley has had a passion for farming and flowers since childhood. He planted flowering plants of various colours and shapes along the roadsides. In areas where paddy cultivation was once carried out continuously, many fields have now been left fallow due
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China's demographic retreat and its implications
Updated : 3 years ago IST
The biggest problem which China would face in future is a declining workforce, which is likely to drop to 700 million by 2050 from a peak of 925 million in 2011.
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Shortage of skilled labour in China forces domestic, foreign firms to relo
Updated : 3 years ago IST
The less-educated and low-income workers make up about 70 per cent of the workforce. The increasing cost of labour and Beijing's promotion of automation have disproportionately affected China's low-skilled workforce.
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Ludhiana's hosiery industry hit by labour shortage due to Covid-19 impact
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Ludhiana (Punjab) [India], May 27 (ANI): The hosiery industry in Punjab's Ludhiana has been hit by a labour shortage as many of the skilled workers went to their native places during the Covid-19 lockdown and are reluctant to return, with the result that the total annual sales have fallen to
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COVID-19 impact: Ludhiana's cycle industry unable to meet demand due to la
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Ludhiana (Punjab) [India], September 8 (ANI): The bicycle manufactures in Ludhiana are unable to meet the rising demand and recover the losses faced during the nationwide lockdown due to shortage of labour in the state.
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Punjab: Cycle industry running at 50 pc loss due to shortage of labourers,
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Ludhiana (Punjab) [India], July 21 (ANI): Despite a rise in demand for cycles, the industry is not able to take advantage of the situation due to the shortage of labourers amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Avtar Singh Bhogal, the director of Bhogal Cycle Industries.
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Shortage of labourers hit paddy farming in Amritsar
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], July 2 (ANI): Farmers in Amritsar are facing problems in paddy plantation due to shortage of labour, following mass exodus of migrant labourers across the country due to COVID-19 pandemic.
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Farmers in Ludhiana face shortage of labourers as they begin paddy cultiva
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Ludhiana (Punjab) [India], June 11 (ANI): As cultivation of paddy crop begins, farmers in Ludhiana are facing a shortage of labourers as migrants went back to their native states amid the ongoing coronavirus-induced lockdown.
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Textile market in Surat facing shortage of labour, urge govt to relax quar
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Surat (Gujarat) [India], June 6 (ANI): The textile market in Surat is facing labour shortage as it re-opened in the first phase of Unlock and businessmen have urged the State Government to relax quarantine norms for labourers who want to return to the state and introduce a scheme which enabl
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Shortage of labour, lack of demands hits Industries in Uttarakhand
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], May 30 (ANI): Industries in Dehradun are unable to increase their production due to labour shortage and lack of demand in the market amid the lockdown imposed to curb COVID-19.
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KTR urges Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers to focus on pharma
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], May 7 (ANI): In a letter to Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers D.V. Sadananda Gowda, Telangana Minister KT Rama Rao has urged for special focus on the pharmaceutical industry which is experiencing financial burden due to reduced production capacity, s
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Farmers in MP unable to harvest crops due to labour shortage
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Chhatarpur (Madhya Pradesh) [India], April 9 (ANI): Several farmers in Madhya Pradesh's Chhatarpur district are incurring losses as they are unable to harvest their crops due to shortage of labourers amid the nation-wide COVID-19 lockdown.
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