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'Makeshift Tanks', Iron Sheets: Farmers' Plan To Cross Haryana Border
Farmers protest: The protesting farmers from Punjab have rejected the Centre's proposal to buy three types of pulses, maize and cotton at the old MSP and their march to Delhi will continue today
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"Iron Shields, Jute Sacks": Farmers Prep As Protest March Resumes Tomorrow
The farmers will resume their protest tomorrow after they turned down the government's 5-year proposal to buy three types of pulses, maize, and cotton at the old MSP.
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"Rejected": Farmers' Body Dismisses Centre's 5-Year MSP Contract Offer
The Samyukt Kisan Morcha - an umbrella organisation of farmer unions not directly linked to those leading this round of protests - has rejected a five-year contract to buy three types of pulses, maize, and cotton at the old MSP.
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Monsoon Covers Entire Country Earlier Than Expected: Weather Office
Farmers plant crops such as rice, corn, cane, cotton and soybeans in the rainy months of June and July, with harvests from October.
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Holding Photographs Of Husbands, Widows Of Farmers Protest In Delhi
Among thousands who thronged the national capital to register their protest against increasing expenditure and decreasing farm income, there were wives of farmers who had committed suicide. At least four women, wives of cotton farmers from Telangana who killed themselves, had marched to the parliament. They had hung photographs of their husbands ar...
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A Patel Farmer On What Went Wrong For The BJP In Gujarat's Saurashtra
Savarkundla Mansukh Vardoriya says he can tell the BJP what went wrong for the party in Saurashtra in the Gujarat assembly elections. "Arrogance and sheer indifference to farmers' plight," says the 55-year-old Patidar farmer as he stares at the inferior cotton crop on his 20 bighas of land hit by unseasonal rain a few months ago.
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Yashwant Sinha Protests At Police Ground, 2 Chief Ministers Tweet Support
Two opposition chief ministers Mamata Banerjee and Arvind Kejriwal have tweeted support for senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha, who has said he will "not budge" from a police ground where he was detained yesterday and has spent over 24 hours so far, till the demands of farmers of the region are not met. Mr Sinha has accused the Maharashtra government...
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Girls In Telangana Drop Out Of School To Pick Cotton In Farms
Access to education is still a luxury for young girls in Telangana's Warangal district who are dropping out of school to work on farms. When the debt-ridden farmer can't afford to pay to farm labour, the girl child is the first casualty.
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After Selling Crop At A Loss, Telangana Farmers Return Home With Pesticide
A frightening scenario is unfolding in Telangana's Warangal district that has been infamous as the cotton farmer suicide capital of the country. At least 21 farmers have killed themselves in the last two weeks in the district, including four farmer suicides in Parvathagiri Mandal that never used to report farmer suicides.
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Blog: The Cotton Farmers Of Maharashtra Are Being Poisoned, Many Dead
The recent deaths of at least 20 farmers and agricultural labourers due to pesticide poisoning in this cotton-growing district has shocked the country and earned the government the wrath of the country's top human rights body, the NHRC.
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Maharashtra Farmers To Get Loan-Waiver Funds Before Diwali: Minister
The farmers whose names have been given to the government by the District Central Cooperative Banks (DCCBs) under the loan-waiver scheme will get money in their bank accounts before Diwali, Maharashtra Agriculture Minister Pandurang Phundkar said today. He said the government will release the funds to those districts where the DCC Banks have submit...
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As Hurricanes Hit US, An Unexpected Business Windfall For India
The world's top cotton buyers, all in Asia, are flocking to India to secure supplies after fierce storms in the United States, the biggest exporter of the fibre, affected the size and quality of the crop, dealers said.
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Her Husband Drank Pesticide. Now, She’s A Telangana Farmer, Needs Help
Yadadri, Telangana: Two years after her husband drank pesticide and killed himself unable to pay off farm debts, Manjula Karnala is a farmer herself. At her home in a village in the Yadadri district of Telangana, about 80 km from Hyderabad, there are no photos of her husband, Sridhar Karnalala. Manjula explains that’s because her young son was t...
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Punjab Cotton Farmers' Dilemma: Despite More Crop Yield, Profit Is Meagre
For 12 years, the majority of Punjab's farmers have been growing Bt cotton, or genetically modified cotton seeds, which have protected their crops from pests like bollworms. Their yields have doubled too. However, in the last few years, Bt cotton has displayed a remarkable vulnerability to a large number of sap feeding pests like white-flies, which...
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Monsoon Rains Arrive In Kerala, To Spur Growth
260 million farmers depend on monsoon rains to grow crops such as rice, cane, corn, cotton and soybeans because nearly half of the country's farmland lacks irrigation.
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'Makeshift Tanks', Iron Sheets: Farmers' Plan To Cross Haryana Border
Farmers protest: The protesting farmers from Punjab have rejected the Centre's proposal to buy three types of pulses, maize and cotton at the old MSP and their march to Delhi will continue today
-
"Iron Shields, Jute Sacks": Farmers Prep As Protest March Resumes Tomorrow
The farmers will resume their protest tomorrow after they turned down the government's 5-year proposal to buy three types of pulses, maize, and cotton at the old MSP.
-
"Rejected": Farmers' Body Dismisses Centre's 5-Year MSP Contract Offer
The Samyukt Kisan Morcha - an umbrella organisation of farmer unions not directly linked to those leading this round of protests - has rejected a five-year contract to buy three types of pulses, maize, and cotton at the old MSP.
-
Monsoon Covers Entire Country Earlier Than Expected: Weather Office
Farmers plant crops such as rice, corn, cane, cotton and soybeans in the rainy months of June and July, with harvests from October.
-
Holding Photographs Of Husbands, Widows Of Farmers Protest In Delhi
Among thousands who thronged the national capital to register their protest against increasing expenditure and decreasing farm income, there were wives of farmers who had committed suicide. At least four women, wives of cotton farmers from Telangana who killed themselves, had marched to the parliament. They had hung photographs of their husbands ar...
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A Patel Farmer On What Went Wrong For The BJP In Gujarat's Saurashtra
Savarkundla Mansukh Vardoriya says he can tell the BJP what went wrong for the party in Saurashtra in the Gujarat assembly elections. "Arrogance and sheer indifference to farmers' plight," says the 55-year-old Patidar farmer as he stares at the inferior cotton crop on his 20 bighas of land hit by unseasonal rain a few months ago.
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Yashwant Sinha Protests At Police Ground, 2 Chief Ministers Tweet Support
Two opposition chief ministers Mamata Banerjee and Arvind Kejriwal have tweeted support for senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha, who has said he will "not budge" from a police ground where he was detained yesterday and has spent over 24 hours so far, till the demands of farmers of the region are not met. Mr Sinha has accused the Maharashtra government...
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Girls In Telangana Drop Out Of School To Pick Cotton In Farms
Access to education is still a luxury for young girls in Telangana's Warangal district who are dropping out of school to work on farms. When the debt-ridden farmer can't afford to pay to farm labour, the girl child is the first casualty.
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After Selling Crop At A Loss, Telangana Farmers Return Home With Pesticide
A frightening scenario is unfolding in Telangana's Warangal district that has been infamous as the cotton farmer suicide capital of the country. At least 21 farmers have killed themselves in the last two weeks in the district, including four farmer suicides in Parvathagiri Mandal that never used to report farmer suicides.
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Blog: The Cotton Farmers Of Maharashtra Are Being Poisoned, Many Dead
The recent deaths of at least 20 farmers and agricultural labourers due to pesticide poisoning in this cotton-growing district has shocked the country and earned the government the wrath of the country's top human rights body, the NHRC.
-
Maharashtra Farmers To Get Loan-Waiver Funds Before Diwali: Minister
The farmers whose names have been given to the government by the District Central Cooperative Banks (DCCBs) under the loan-waiver scheme will get money in their bank accounts before Diwali, Maharashtra Agriculture Minister Pandurang Phundkar said today. He said the government will release the funds to those districts where the DCC Banks have submit...
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As Hurricanes Hit US, An Unexpected Business Windfall For India
The world's top cotton buyers, all in Asia, are flocking to India to secure supplies after fierce storms in the United States, the biggest exporter of the fibre, affected the size and quality of the crop, dealers said.
-
Her Husband Drank Pesticide. Now, She’s A Telangana Farmer, Needs Help
Yadadri, Telangana: Two years after her husband drank pesticide and killed himself unable to pay off farm debts, Manjula Karnala is a farmer herself. At her home in a village in the Yadadri district of Telangana, about 80 km from Hyderabad, there are no photos of her husband, Sridhar Karnalala. Manjula explains that’s because her young son was t...
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Punjab Cotton Farmers' Dilemma: Despite More Crop Yield, Profit Is Meagre
For 12 years, the majority of Punjab's farmers have been growing Bt cotton, or genetically modified cotton seeds, which have protected their crops from pests like bollworms. Their yields have doubled too. However, in the last few years, Bt cotton has displayed a remarkable vulnerability to a large number of sap feeding pests like white-flies, which...
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Monsoon Rains Arrive In Kerala, To Spur Growth
260 million farmers depend on monsoon rains to grow crops such as rice, cane, corn, cotton and soybeans because nearly half of the country's farmland lacks irrigation.
