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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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"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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Why Cotton Farmers In Maharashtra's Yavatmal Are Unhappy With BJP
It was an electoral promise that touched millions of farmers - an increase of Minimum Support Price by 50%. And many of them were convinced: Narendra Modi was their clear choice for being India's Prime Minister.
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India Ratings Revises FY16 Cotton Outlook to Negative
India Ratings & Research has revised its cotton outlook to negative for 2015-16 due to a decline in domestic yarn production, an unlikely recovery in cotton exports and a fall in domestic cotton prices below minimum support prices (MSP).
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Vibrant Gujarat Summit: Police Detain Farmers' Organisation Leaders Planning Protest
Even as the Gujarat government announced the successful conduct of the 7th Vibrant Gujarat global business summit, several farmers organisations and activists have criticised the police crackdown on farmers who were planning protest demonstrations on the inaugural day of the summit on Sunday.
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12 Farmers in Vidarbha Commit Suicide In 72 Hours
In 72 hours, 12 farmers from Vidarbha region in Maharashtra committed suicide due to crop losses, Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samittee chief Kishore Tiwari announced today.
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Gujarat Aam Aadmi Party to Launch 'Remember Poll Promises' Programme
The state unit of the AAP will launch campaigns with the theme of "remember poll promises", seeking to increase minimum support price of cotton crops, at a time when the Gujarat farmers' agitation is at its peak, the party said on Friday.
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Faced With Mounting Debt, Gujarat Cotton Farmer's Son Kills Himself
21-year-old Arvind Nagani of Dharai village in Gujarat's Saurashtra had taken some days off from his studies to help his father sell off their cotton produce at a marketing yard 15 km away from his village.
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Gujarat Cotton Farmer Sets Himself on Fire Over Low Returns
A farmer hailing from Surendranagar District of Gujarat's Saurashtra region allegedly committed suicide by immolating himself at a cotton marketing yard in adjoining Jasdan taluka on Wednesday, reportedly after not getting a good price for his cotton produce.
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Cotton Farmers in Telangana Distressed Over High Input Costs
Domestic production of cotton in India this year may be at an all-time high of over 40 million bales. However, farmers who grow the crop in Telangana are in deep distress due to high input costs and low remunerative prices. In Warangal district, for instance, where 50 per cent of cultivated area grows cotton, erratic rainfall has reduced output wit...
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Indian govt hikes minimum support price for fiscal 2013
India has raised its support price for various agri products to protect the agri sector from price fluctuations.
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Anand Sharma in favour of hike in cotton MSP; writes letter to Pawar
At present, the minimum support price (MSP) of cotton is between Rs 2800-3,300 per quintal depending on staple length.
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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
-
"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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Why Cotton Farmers In Maharashtra's Yavatmal Are Unhappy With BJP
It was an electoral promise that touched millions of farmers - an increase of Minimum Support Price by 50%. And many of them were convinced: Narendra Modi was their clear choice for being India's Prime Minister.
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India Ratings Revises FY16 Cotton Outlook to Negative
India Ratings & Research has revised its cotton outlook to negative for 2015-16 due to a decline in domestic yarn production, an unlikely recovery in cotton exports and a fall in domestic cotton prices below minimum support prices (MSP).
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Vibrant Gujarat Summit: Police Detain Farmers' Organisation Leaders Planning Protest
Even as the Gujarat government announced the successful conduct of the 7th Vibrant Gujarat global business summit, several farmers organisations and activists have criticised the police crackdown on farmers who were planning protest demonstrations on the inaugural day of the summit on Sunday.
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12 Farmers in Vidarbha Commit Suicide In 72 Hours
In 72 hours, 12 farmers from Vidarbha region in Maharashtra committed suicide due to crop losses, Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samittee chief Kishore Tiwari announced today.
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Gujarat Aam Aadmi Party to Launch 'Remember Poll Promises' Programme
The state unit of the AAP will launch campaigns with the theme of "remember poll promises", seeking to increase minimum support price of cotton crops, at a time when the Gujarat farmers' agitation is at its peak, the party said on Friday.
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Faced With Mounting Debt, Gujarat Cotton Farmer's Son Kills Himself
21-year-old Arvind Nagani of Dharai village in Gujarat's Saurashtra had taken some days off from his studies to help his father sell off their cotton produce at a marketing yard 15 km away from his village.
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Gujarat Cotton Farmer Sets Himself on Fire Over Low Returns
A farmer hailing from Surendranagar District of Gujarat's Saurashtra region allegedly committed suicide by immolating himself at a cotton marketing yard in adjoining Jasdan taluka on Wednesday, reportedly after not getting a good price for his cotton produce.
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Cotton Farmers in Telangana Distressed Over High Input Costs
Domestic production of cotton in India this year may be at an all-time high of over 40 million bales. However, farmers who grow the crop in Telangana are in deep distress due to high input costs and low remunerative prices. In Warangal district, for instance, where 50 per cent of cultivated area grows cotton, erratic rainfall has reduced output wit...
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Indian govt hikes minimum support price for fiscal 2013
India has raised its support price for various agri products to protect the agri sector from price fluctuations.
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Anand Sharma in favour of hike in cotton MSP; writes letter to Pawar
At present, the minimum support price (MSP) of cotton is between Rs 2800-3,300 per quintal depending on staple length.
