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Women Farmers Battle Tradition, Self-doubt To Own Land In Uttar Pradesh
By Rina Chandran Taardeh, Uttar Pradesh: Anjali has worked on the land nearly all her life, first with her tenant-farmer parents, and then alongside her husband in Uttar Pradesh. But she has never owned land – a right she has been denied by inconsistent inheritance laws and her community’s rigid custom that led her to believe only a man should ...
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Government to Take Back All Major Amendments in 2013 UPA Land Bill: Sources
The government has reportedly decided to withdraw virtually all the changes it had made to an existing law on how to acquire farm land for industry after it failed completely at being able to push through the centerpiece of its economic reform agenda. It will now be upto individual states to pass their own laws for business-friendly land reforms.
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9-Day-Old Water Protest in Madhya Pradesh's Khandwa Region Continues, Farmers' Health Deteriorating
With the agitation against the raising of the water-level in Omkareshwar dam in Madhya Pradesh continuing for the ninth day on Sunday, the condition of protestors highlighting their plaint by squatting in the river worsened.
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Indonesia Seeks Ways to Tame Hunger for Food Imports
Indonesia's two presidential candidates have pledged to increase the amount of farm land to improve self sufficiency, although previous such plans by Asia's top importer of wheat and a major buyer of other grains and edibles have often stumbled.
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Women Farmers Battle Tradition, Self-doubt To Own Land In Uttar Pradesh
By Rina Chandran Taardeh, Uttar Pradesh: Anjali has worked on the land nearly all her life, first with her tenant-farmer parents, and then alongside her husband in Uttar Pradesh. But she has never owned land – a right she has been denied by inconsistent inheritance laws and her community’s rigid custom that led her to believe only a man should ...
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Government to Take Back All Major Amendments in 2013 UPA Land Bill: Sources
The government has reportedly decided to withdraw virtually all the changes it had made to an existing law on how to acquire farm land for industry after it failed completely at being able to push through the centerpiece of its economic reform agenda. It will now be upto individual states to pass their own laws for business-friendly land reforms.
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9-Day-Old Water Protest in Madhya Pradesh's Khandwa Region Continues, Farmers' Health Deteriorating
With the agitation against the raising of the water-level in Omkareshwar dam in Madhya Pradesh continuing for the ninth day on Sunday, the condition of protestors highlighting their plaint by squatting in the river worsened.
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Indonesia Seeks Ways to Tame Hunger for Food Imports
Indonesia's two presidential candidates have pledged to increase the amount of farm land to improve self sufficiency, although previous such plans by Asia's top importer of wheat and a major buyer of other grains and edibles have often stumbled.
