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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Calls For All Round Development Of Agriculture
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today emphasised the need for all round development of agriculture and its allied sector to increase the income of farmers.
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Maharashtra Government To Give Free Seeds To Tenant Farmers, Reassures On MSP
Addressing the issue of agricultural distress widespread in the state, the government of Maharashtra is planning to supply free seeds and pesticides free of cost to small and marginal farmers to keep cost effective farming alive in the state.
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In Tamil Nadu's Tiruvarur, Farmers Say Lack of Crop Insurance for Cotton Led To One Suicide
Days after a cotton farmer in Tamil Nadu killed himself, allegedly because last Friday's unseasonal rains destroyed his entire crop, the farmer's father says his son wouldn't have taken such an extreme step if the state government had insured his cotton crop instead of refusing to do so.
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'Farmers Who Commit Suicide Are Cowards': Haryana Minister OP Dhankar Justifies Shocker
At a time when farmer suicides have caught national attention, a minister in Haryana has said that farmers who commit suicide are "cowards" and implied that they don't deserve the government's support.
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In Uttar Pradesh, a Farmer's Crop is Destroyed, Then His Compensation Cheque Bounces
First, Satish Chand, a farmer from Chhata village in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district, lost his entire wheat crop worth Rs 80,000, because of the unseasonal March rains and hailstorms. Then, to add insult to injury, the meagre Rs. 18,000 compensation cheque he got from the state government, bounced, yesterday, because the revenue officer's bank acc...
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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Calls For All Round Development Of Agriculture
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today emphasised the need for all round development of agriculture and its allied sector to increase the income of farmers.
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Maharashtra Government To Give Free Seeds To Tenant Farmers, Reassures On MSP
Addressing the issue of agricultural distress widespread in the state, the government of Maharashtra is planning to supply free seeds and pesticides free of cost to small and marginal farmers to keep cost effective farming alive in the state.
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In Tamil Nadu's Tiruvarur, Farmers Say Lack of Crop Insurance for Cotton Led To One Suicide
Days after a cotton farmer in Tamil Nadu killed himself, allegedly because last Friday's unseasonal rains destroyed his entire crop, the farmer's father says his son wouldn't have taken such an extreme step if the state government had insured his cotton crop instead of refusing to do so.
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'Farmers Who Commit Suicide Are Cowards': Haryana Minister OP Dhankar Justifies Shocker
At a time when farmer suicides have caught national attention, a minister in Haryana has said that farmers who commit suicide are "cowards" and implied that they don't deserve the government's support.
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In Uttar Pradesh, a Farmer's Crop is Destroyed, Then His Compensation Cheque Bounces
First, Satish Chand, a farmer from Chhata village in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district, lost his entire wheat crop worth Rs 80,000, because of the unseasonal March rains and hailstorms. Then, to add insult to injury, the meagre Rs. 18,000 compensation cheque he got from the state government, bounced, yesterday, because the revenue officer's bank acc...
