Soyabean Farmer

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...

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today wrote a letter to Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, seeking a hike in the import duty of soyabean to support farmers in view of the large scale production of the crop this year.

While the farmers in states like Maharashtra and Karnataka are being punished with a drought-like situation, in the Dewas district of Madhya Pradesh, it is excessive rain that has destroyed huge swathes of soybean crop.

A 76-year-old soyabean farmer in Maharashtra performed his own last rites by building a pyre in the middle of his fields, climbing atop it and setting it ablaze on Friday last.

A 76-year-old soyabean farmer ended his life on Friday evening, lighting his own funeral pyre in drought-hit Vidarbha's Akola district. He was the 42nd farmer to end his life in the last 50 days.

In a country where a considerable number of families still sleep hungry, food grain rotting due to lack of storage space is possibly the worst phenomenon still left unchecked.Despite the Supreme Court ruling on grain distribution to the poor, the grain rotting episodes have turned into a saga. Now, Mandhal village in Nagpur has seen more than four ...

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...

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today wrote a letter to Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, seeking a hike in the import duty of soyabean to support farmers in view of the large scale production of the crop this year.

While the farmers in states like Maharashtra and Karnataka are being punished with a drought-like situation, in the Dewas district of Madhya Pradesh, it is excessive rain that has destroyed huge swathes of soybean crop.

A 76-year-old soyabean farmer in Maharashtra performed his own last rites by building a pyre in the middle of his fields, climbing atop it and setting it ablaze on Friday last.

A 76-year-old soyabean farmer ended his life on Friday evening, lighting his own funeral pyre in drought-hit Vidarbha's Akola district. He was the 42nd farmer to end his life in the last 50 days.

In a country where a considerable number of families still sleep hungry, food grain rotting due to lack of storage space is possibly the worst phenomenon still left unchecked.Despite the Supreme Court ruling on grain distribution to the poor, the grain rotting episodes have turned into a saga. Now, Mandhal village in Nagpur has seen more than four ...