Farming In India

Punjab on Friday witnessed the current season's biggest spike in farm fires with 587 total cases being reported across the state.

Delhi woke up to a thick layer of smog this morning, and the air quality index (AQI) remained in the "very poor" category despite officials taking various anti-pollution measures.

Toxic air in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida, Noida, and Ghaziabad is the result of Pakistan burning stubble, or agricultural waste, a UP pollution board official declared this week.

The Delhi Police has booked seven persons who conducted a "fake" raid against a man living in DLF Farms area and tried to extort Rs 5 crore from him by impersonating as Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials.

Two years later it seems that while farm-related issues may have influenced voters in border areas of Haryana, they failed to swing the overall mandate away from the BJP.

A Dalit man was beaten up and had casteist abuses used against him by a poultry farm owner and his son in Bihar, all because he asked them for his wages that were due.

Stubble burning in Punjab, shows data, has been lowest in the last three years.

Farm laws were rolled back by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government in November 2021 after massive agitations.

The Congress ripped into BJP MP Kangana Ranaut Tuesday afternoon following the actor-politician's fresh comment on the three farm laws that were at the core of farmers' protest of 2020.

India's gross domestic product slowed to a quarter low of 6.7 per centin April-June this fiscal against 8.2 per cent in the year-ago period, mainly due to poor showing by the farm sector, shows government data.

The incident happened when he was returning home from his farm in Uttar Pradesh's Etawah.

An 18-month-old girl was allegedly raped by a migrant labourer at a poultry farm in a village in this Punjab district, police said on Friday.

The government will procure the entire production of tur, urad, and masur dal from farmers, Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said in Rajya Sabha today.

The discussion on Budget 2024 in Lok Sabha today witnessed a sharp exchange between Speaker Om Birla and Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee, when the latter claimed that the House did not discuss the three farm laws

At 16.37 lakh hectares, Madhya Pradesh has the largest area under organic farming in the country and an attempt to give this a further boost has fallen prey to corruption, an investigation has revealed.

Punjab on Friday witnessed the current season's biggest spike in farm fires with 587 total cases being reported across the state.

Delhi woke up to a thick layer of smog this morning, and the air quality index (AQI) remained in the "very poor" category despite officials taking various anti-pollution measures.

Toxic air in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida, Noida, and Ghaziabad is the result of Pakistan burning stubble, or agricultural waste, a UP pollution board official declared this week.

The Delhi Police has booked seven persons who conducted a "fake" raid against a man living in DLF Farms area and tried to extort Rs 5 crore from him by impersonating as Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials.

Two years later it seems that while farm-related issues may have influenced voters in border areas of Haryana, they failed to swing the overall mandate away from the BJP.

A Dalit man was beaten up and had casteist abuses used against him by a poultry farm owner and his son in Bihar, all because he asked them for his wages that were due.

Stubble burning in Punjab, shows data, has been lowest in the last three years.

Farm laws were rolled back by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government in November 2021 after massive agitations.

The Congress ripped into BJP MP Kangana Ranaut Tuesday afternoon following the actor-politician's fresh comment on the three farm laws that were at the core of farmers' protest of 2020.

India's gross domestic product slowed to a quarter low of 6.7 per centin April-June this fiscal against 8.2 per cent in the year-ago period, mainly due to poor showing by the farm sector, shows government data.

The incident happened when he was returning home from his farm in Uttar Pradesh's Etawah.

An 18-month-old girl was allegedly raped by a migrant labourer at a poultry farm in a village in this Punjab district, police said on Friday.

The government will procure the entire production of tur, urad, and masur dal from farmers, Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said in Rajya Sabha today.

The discussion on Budget 2024 in Lok Sabha today witnessed a sharp exchange between Speaker Om Birla and Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee, when the latter claimed that the House did not discuss the three farm laws

At 16.37 lakh hectares, Madhya Pradesh has the largest area under organic farming in the country and an attempt to give this a further boost has fallen prey to corruption, an investigation has revealed.