Chilly Farmers

Floods that wrecked havoc across Pakistan in August and September, on the back of several years of high temperatures, have left chilli farmers struggling to cope.

As thousands of farmers dig their heels in at Delhi's borders bracing chilly winter winds and preparing for a long fight to press for their demands, some rue that seeing their plight, their children no longer wish to get into agriculture.

Modified tractors, carrying rations, woollens, essential items and people, trundled through Haryana in the chilly winter evening as thousands of Punjab farmers protesting against the Centre's new farm laws, slowly moved closer to Delhi, undeterred by police barricades, tear gas and water cannons. "More than 50,000 farmers will be standing at the De...

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan yesterday took a swipe at Rahul Gandhi's visit to Mandsaur to meet farmers, saying the Congress chief does not even know how an onion grows.

Farmers in Maharashtra emptied huge containers of milk and dumped fruits and vegetables on roads to demand a crop loan waiver and better procurement prices. In the temple town of Shirdi too, farmers wasted hundreds of litres of milk and threw large quantities of tomatoes and green chillies on streets.

The opposition Congress, TDP and BJP on Friday hit out at the TRS government in Telangana for handcuffing farmers booked for vandalism at an agriculture market yard office in Khammam.

The war of words between ruling TRS and opposition BJP in Telangana over helping chilli farmers intensified today, with the state government expressing disappointment over the Centre's announcement to procure chillies from farmers.

The vandalisation at the agricultural market yard in Telangana's Khammam district on Friday was triggered by people who spread rumours and resorted to physical violence over the decreasing price of chilli, suggests a report by district collector DS Lokesh Kumar. The collector also adds that an angle of conspiracy is also being investigated and crim...

The Khammam market yard in Telangana looks like there just been a riot there. Farmers who had brought in their chilly produce went on a rampage, breaking air conditioners and ceiling fans, chairs and tables, windows and doors, whatever they could lay their hands on.

On a chilly Saturday evening on April 20, 1889, inside an apartment above a brewery in a tiny Austrian town near the German border, a farmer's daughter married to her second cousin gave birth to her fourth child. He was the first to survive infancy. They named him Adolf.

Guntur, Andhra Pradesh: Shiva Prasad wants to go to school. At 14, that is where he should be. That is where he was, in Class VII, preparing for his annual examination like millions of children at this time of the year. But ten days back, a second successive year of drought pushed his father over the edge. Rama Rao, a farmer in Guntur district of A...

Farmers of a village in Bihar's Nalanda district are planning to go global. Potatoes, pumpkins, garlics, chillis and ladyfingers, among other vegetables, produced in Sohdih village are all set to make their way to kitchens in Europe.The farmers are eyeing...

A 55-year-old farmer who received current shock at his farm fell into an agricultural well and drowned in Ippalapalli village of Kathalapur mandal on Monday. According to police, the farmer, Chinna Pedda Gangaram, went to his farm to irrigate his turmeric and chilli crop in his 1.5-acre land.

Floods that wrecked havoc across Pakistan in August and September, on the back of several years of high temperatures, have left chilli farmers struggling to cope.

As thousands of farmers dig their heels in at Delhi's borders bracing chilly winter winds and preparing for a long fight to press for their demands, some rue that seeing their plight, their children no longer wish to get into agriculture.

Modified tractors, carrying rations, woollens, essential items and people, trundled through Haryana in the chilly winter evening as thousands of Punjab farmers protesting against the Centre's new farm laws, slowly moved closer to Delhi, undeterred by police barricades, tear gas and water cannons. "More than 50,000 farmers will be standing at the De...

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan yesterday took a swipe at Rahul Gandhi's visit to Mandsaur to meet farmers, saying the Congress chief does not even know how an onion grows.

Farmers in Maharashtra emptied huge containers of milk and dumped fruits and vegetables on roads to demand a crop loan waiver and better procurement prices. In the temple town of Shirdi too, farmers wasted hundreds of litres of milk and threw large quantities of tomatoes and green chillies on streets.

The opposition Congress, TDP and BJP on Friday hit out at the TRS government in Telangana for handcuffing farmers booked for vandalism at an agriculture market yard office in Khammam.

The war of words between ruling TRS and opposition BJP in Telangana over helping chilli farmers intensified today, with the state government expressing disappointment over the Centre's announcement to procure chillies from farmers.

The vandalisation at the agricultural market yard in Telangana's Khammam district on Friday was triggered by people who spread rumours and resorted to physical violence over the decreasing price of chilli, suggests a report by district collector DS Lokesh Kumar. The collector also adds that an angle of conspiracy is also being investigated and crim...

The Khammam market yard in Telangana looks like there just been a riot there. Farmers who had brought in their chilly produce went on a rampage, breaking air conditioners and ceiling fans, chairs and tables, windows and doors, whatever they could lay their hands on.

On a chilly Saturday evening on April 20, 1889, inside an apartment above a brewery in a tiny Austrian town near the German border, a farmer's daughter married to her second cousin gave birth to her fourth child. He was the first to survive infancy. They named him Adolf.

Guntur, Andhra Pradesh: Shiva Prasad wants to go to school. At 14, that is where he should be. That is where he was, in Class VII, preparing for his annual examination like millions of children at this time of the year. But ten days back, a second successive year of drought pushed his father over the edge. Rama Rao, a farmer in Guntur district of A...

Farmers of a village in Bihar's Nalanda district are planning to go global. Potatoes, pumpkins, garlics, chillis and ladyfingers, among other vegetables, produced in Sohdih village are all set to make their way to kitchens in Europe.The farmers are eyeing...

A 55-year-old farmer who received current shock at his farm fell into an agricultural well and drowned in Ippalapalli village of Kathalapur mandal on Monday. According to police, the farmer, Chinna Pedda Gangaram, went to his farm to irrigate his turmeric and chilli crop in his 1.5-acre land.