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Mahindra Rolls Out M-Protect COVID Plan For Farmers
Under the M-Protect covid plan, Mahindra will provide its customers with a health cover of Rs. 1 lakh through a unique COVID Mediclaim policy covering the customer in case they contract COVID-19 with home quarantine benefits.
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Private Companies Won't Grab Land Under Contract Farming: PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday allayed fears that private firms might grab farmers' land under a new contract farming law enacted by the Centre, as he listened to success stories about benefits of the new Acts while interacting with peasants from seven states.
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PM Releases Rs 18,000 Crore Under Central Farmers' Scheme Amid Protests
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today released Rs 18,000 crore to over nine crore farmer families under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) programme. With the push of a button, PM Modi enabled the transfer of money at an event that the ruling BJP has made into a big exercise amid the protest by farmers against three new farm laws.
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Madhya Pradesh Farmers In Lurch As Rice Firm Goes Back On Contractual Promise
A Delhi-based rice company has allegedly refused to buy paddy from the farmers of Madhya Pradesh's Hoshangabad district under the agreement of contract farming - highlighting one of the key issues the farmers have been protesting about.
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Centre Launches 100-Page E-Booklet On New Farm Laws Amid Farmers' Protest
As farmers intensify their protest seeking repeal of three farm laws, the government on Thursday issued an e-booklet highlighting the success stories of farmers who have benefited from contract farming after enactment of these legislations.
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Lecturer Turns Farm Labourer To Support Family Amid COVID-19 Lockdown
Navnath Gore was a lecturer in a college in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra, but the COVID-19-induced lockdown took away his contract job and reduced him to a farm labourer.
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Don't "Selectively Quote Rules": Bhupinder Hooda On Centre's Farm Bill Remark
As the Central government decides to attack the Opposition using Haryana's contract farming rules implemented by the Congress, former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, under whose tenure the legislation was implemented, mounted an attack on the Centre for "citing rules selectively".
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Man Killed, Body Buried In His Farm Over Due Payment In Maharashtra: Cops
A postmaster was killed over payment of contract farming dues near Nagpur in Maharashtra, police said on Thursday.
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To Tackle Dal Shortage, Centre Looks At Growing Pulses in African Nations
Government is exploring the feasibility of contract farming of pulses in African countries -- Mozambique, Tanzania and Malawi -- as it looks for a long-term solution to domestic shortage and high prices.
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Rs 224 crores cheated by EMU firms in Erode district
More than Rs 224 crore has been cheated by 42 EMU contract farming firms in the district last year, police said.
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Mahindra Rolls Out M-Protect COVID Plan For Farmers
Under the M-Protect covid plan, Mahindra will provide its customers with a health cover of Rs. 1 lakh through a unique COVID Mediclaim policy covering the customer in case they contract COVID-19 with home quarantine benefits.
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Private Companies Won't Grab Land Under Contract Farming: PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday allayed fears that private firms might grab farmers' land under a new contract farming law enacted by the Centre, as he listened to success stories about benefits of the new Acts while interacting with peasants from seven states.
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PM Releases Rs 18,000 Crore Under Central Farmers' Scheme Amid Protests
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today released Rs 18,000 crore to over nine crore farmer families under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) programme. With the push of a button, PM Modi enabled the transfer of money at an event that the ruling BJP has made into a big exercise amid the protest by farmers against three new farm laws.
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Madhya Pradesh Farmers In Lurch As Rice Firm Goes Back On Contractual Promise
A Delhi-based rice company has allegedly refused to buy paddy from the farmers of Madhya Pradesh's Hoshangabad district under the agreement of contract farming - highlighting one of the key issues the farmers have been protesting about.
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Centre Launches 100-Page E-Booklet On New Farm Laws Amid Farmers' Protest
As farmers intensify their protest seeking repeal of three farm laws, the government on Thursday issued an e-booklet highlighting the success stories of farmers who have benefited from contract farming after enactment of these legislations.
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Lecturer Turns Farm Labourer To Support Family Amid COVID-19 Lockdown
Navnath Gore was a lecturer in a college in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra, but the COVID-19-induced lockdown took away his contract job and reduced him to a farm labourer.
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Don't "Selectively Quote Rules": Bhupinder Hooda On Centre's Farm Bill Remark
As the Central government decides to attack the Opposition using Haryana's contract farming rules implemented by the Congress, former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, under whose tenure the legislation was implemented, mounted an attack on the Centre for "citing rules selectively".
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Man Killed, Body Buried In His Farm Over Due Payment In Maharashtra: Cops
A postmaster was killed over payment of contract farming dues near Nagpur in Maharashtra, police said on Thursday.
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To Tackle Dal Shortage, Centre Looks At Growing Pulses in African Nations
Government is exploring the feasibility of contract farming of pulses in African countries -- Mozambique, Tanzania and Malawi -- as it looks for a long-term solution to domestic shortage and high prices.
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Rs 224 crores cheated by EMU firms in Erode district
More than Rs 224 crore has been cheated by 42 EMU contract farming firms in the district last year, police said.
