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Maharashtra To Produce Record Sugar Levels In New Season
The top sugar producing state Maharashtra is set to churn out record levels for the second year in a row as farmers have expanded the growing area for the cane crop, the state government said in a statement on Monday.
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Were Farm Schemes Truly A Success In Maharashtra? A Reality Check
Three days ago, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had made a grand claim at the launch of the BJP-Shiv Sena joint election campaign in western Maharashtra's Kolhapur district. "All central government schemes have been successfully implemented in our state," he said. "Under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, we have given bank accounts t...
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Maharashtra Farmer Burned To Death While Trying To Douse Fire In Field
A farmer was Monday charred to death while trying to douse a fire in his sugarcane field in Maharashtra's Kolhapur district, the police said.
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India's Electric Vehicle Goals Being Realised On Two Wheels, Not Four
Hurt by high fuel prices, Vinod Gore, a farmer in Gove village in Maharashtra, ditched his petrol scooter for an electric model, underlining how two-wheelers are driving the country's goal of electrification of its vehicles. Gore's electric scooter, built by Indian start-up Okinawa, runs for about 100-120 km (60-75 miles) on a single charge which c...
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"Maharashtra Sugarcane Crisis Not Created By Us," Says Nitin Gadkari
As sugarcane farmers in Maharashtra plan to launch an agitation over their grievances, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday blamed "external factors" for the prevailing crisis.
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20,000 Farmers March From Thane To Mumbai Demanding Drought Compensation
Over 20,000 farmers have started a two-day march from Thane to Mumbai's iconic Azad Maidan, eight months after a similar protest saw a sea of red - formed by farmers in red caps - on a long march through Maharashtra. The farmers are demanding compensation for drought, an unconditional farm loan waiver and the transfer of forest rights to tribals. I...
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'Pay Me for My Sugarcane Or I'll Kill Myself': Farmer to Devendra Fadnavis
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, on a tour of the drought-hit Marathwada region of his state, was stunned today when a farmer told him, "Pay me for my sugarcane or I will commit suicide."
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How Maharashtra Politics Fosters A Sugarcane Crop Even During A Drought
Only 7 per cent of water remains in drought-hit Marathawada's dams. But still that hasn't stopped sugarcane, a highly water intensive crop, from being produced in the region.
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Protesting Sugarcane Farmers Lathi-Charged in Maharashtra's Solapur
Nearly 500 sugarcane farmers, demanding that they be paid for their produce according to the Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) set by the Centre, were lathi-charged by police in Solapur today as they tried to present a memorandum to Maharashtra minister Chandrakant Patil.
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Sugar mills in Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra start up after price war truce
Mills in India's two top sugar-producing states have begun operations following a truce in a bitter price dispute with farmers that threatened to disrupt the refining season.
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Rajnath Singh seeks Prime Minister's intervention for relief to sugarcane farmers
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh on Sunday sought the intervention of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to get pending payments of sugarcane farmers released and ensure that sugar mills get on with crushing in cane producing states of Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Karnataka.
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Two sugarcane farmers commit suicide as protests rage for higher prices
India's sugar belts are on the boil as anger and desperation spills out on the street as farmers agitate for a higher price for their cane.
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Sugarcane price: Maharashtra farmers give ultimatum to government
The sugarcane farmers in Maharashtra have given an ultimatum to the state government for its failure to declare better prices for the crop, failing which the farmers have said they will organise a 48-hour bandh.
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Sugarcane farmers' agitation turns violent in Maharashtra again; police jeep torched, buses damaged
Angry protests by farmers have spread in Maharashtra as their demand for better prices for sugarcane became louder. Farmers and police battled each other in Kolhapur, Satara and Sangli districts today, after a Diwali respite on Tuesday. A police jeep was set on fire, several state-run buses were damaged and policemen were stoned after they lathicha...
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Anna Hazare supports farmers' protests in Maharashtra
Extending his support to the "justful" cause of sugarcane growers in Maharashtra, social activist Anna Hazare on Wednesday condemned the firing incident in Sangli district and accused the state government of turning this year's Diwali "black" for protesting farmers.
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Maharashtra To Produce Record Sugar Levels In New Season
The top sugar producing state Maharashtra is set to churn out record levels for the second year in a row as farmers have expanded the growing area for the cane crop, the state government said in a statement on Monday.
-
Were Farm Schemes Truly A Success In Maharashtra? A Reality Check
Three days ago, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had made a grand claim at the launch of the BJP-Shiv Sena joint election campaign in western Maharashtra's Kolhapur district. "All central government schemes have been successfully implemented in our state," he said. "Under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, we have given bank accounts t...
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Maharashtra Farmer Burned To Death While Trying To Douse Fire In Field
A farmer was Monday charred to death while trying to douse a fire in his sugarcane field in Maharashtra's Kolhapur district, the police said.
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India's Electric Vehicle Goals Being Realised On Two Wheels, Not Four
Hurt by high fuel prices, Vinod Gore, a farmer in Gove village in Maharashtra, ditched his petrol scooter for an electric model, underlining how two-wheelers are driving the country's goal of electrification of its vehicles. Gore's electric scooter, built by Indian start-up Okinawa, runs for about 100-120 km (60-75 miles) on a single charge which c...
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"Maharashtra Sugarcane Crisis Not Created By Us," Says Nitin Gadkari
As sugarcane farmers in Maharashtra plan to launch an agitation over their grievances, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday blamed "external factors" for the prevailing crisis.
-
20,000 Farmers March From Thane To Mumbai Demanding Drought Compensation
Over 20,000 farmers have started a two-day march from Thane to Mumbai's iconic Azad Maidan, eight months after a similar protest saw a sea of red - formed by farmers in red caps - on a long march through Maharashtra. The farmers are demanding compensation for drought, an unconditional farm loan waiver and the transfer of forest rights to tribals. I...
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'Pay Me for My Sugarcane Or I'll Kill Myself': Farmer to Devendra Fadnavis
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, on a tour of the drought-hit Marathwada region of his state, was stunned today when a farmer told him, "Pay me for my sugarcane or I will commit suicide."
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How Maharashtra Politics Fosters A Sugarcane Crop Even During A Drought
Only 7 per cent of water remains in drought-hit Marathawada's dams. But still that hasn't stopped sugarcane, a highly water intensive crop, from being produced in the region.
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Protesting Sugarcane Farmers Lathi-Charged in Maharashtra's Solapur
Nearly 500 sugarcane farmers, demanding that they be paid for their produce according to the Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) set by the Centre, were lathi-charged by police in Solapur today as they tried to present a memorandum to Maharashtra minister Chandrakant Patil.
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Sugar mills in Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra start up after price war truce
Mills in India's two top sugar-producing states have begun operations following a truce in a bitter price dispute with farmers that threatened to disrupt the refining season.
-
Rajnath Singh seeks Prime Minister's intervention for relief to sugarcane farmers
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh on Sunday sought the intervention of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to get pending payments of sugarcane farmers released and ensure that sugar mills get on with crushing in cane producing states of Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Karnataka.
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Two sugarcane farmers commit suicide as protests rage for higher prices
India's sugar belts are on the boil as anger and desperation spills out on the street as farmers agitate for a higher price for their cane.
-
Sugarcane price: Maharashtra farmers give ultimatum to government
The sugarcane farmers in Maharashtra have given an ultimatum to the state government for its failure to declare better prices for the crop, failing which the farmers have said they will organise a 48-hour bandh.
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Sugarcane farmers' agitation turns violent in Maharashtra again; police jeep torched, buses damaged
Angry protests by farmers have spread in Maharashtra as their demand for better prices for sugarcane became louder. Farmers and police battled each other in Kolhapur, Satara and Sangli districts today, after a Diwali respite on Tuesday. A police jeep was set on fire, several state-run buses were damaged and policemen were stoned after they lathicha...
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Anna Hazare supports farmers' protests in Maharashtra
Extending his support to the "justful" cause of sugarcane growers in Maharashtra, social activist Anna Hazare on Wednesday condemned the firing incident in Sangli district and accused the state government of turning this year's Diwali "black" for protesting farmers.
