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'Never Imagined This': Women Farmers Prepare For Their 1st Flight From Noida
Situated in Gautam Buddh Nagar district under the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority, the airport is among the Uttar Pradesh government's marquee infrastructure projects.
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Kisan Diwas 2020: A Woman Farmer On Why She Is Protesting At Delhi Border
Today, as Kisan Diwas or National Farmers' Day is being observed across the country, 'Humans of Bombay' spoke to Sarabjeet about the protests against the farm laws and more.
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GST Framing Needs A Re-look For Women Farmers: Rights Body Chief
New Delhi: The National Commission for Women (NCW) will urge the PMO to step in to address the concerns of women farmers regarding increase of tax under the GST regime, its chairperson Lalitha Kumaramangalam said on Tuesday. Several women farmer leaders are here to participate in the national consultation on rights of women farmers being organised ...
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Free Trade Deal To Hurt Women Farmers, Say Activists
Mumbai: A regional free trade agreement being negotiated this week will hurt the livelihoods of farmers, women and indigenous groups and increase conflicts over land as businesses get easier access, rights groups said on Tuesday. The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) would create a free trade area of more than 3.5 billion people, b...
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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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Why More And More Women Take To Farming, But Remain Invisible
In Kalibhigapar village in Bihar’s Nalanda district, Bachhi Devi’s is an all-women household. It was the lack of money in farming that pushed the men in her family, her husband and three sons, to the cities like Delhi and Kolkata in search of work. Bacchi Devi is 55 and a sharecropper. She leases about half an acre of land from a landowner in h...
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As Loans Pile Up, Bundelkhand's Women Farmers In Distress
In Uttar Pradesh's Bundelkhand region, 46-year-old woman farmer Munni reportedly hanged herself from a tree last Wednesday, right on her farmland which had left her with a debt of Rs 3.5 lakh because it just wasn't yielding.
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Women farmers who commit suicide ignored by state
Critics say the state government's guidelines for defining who is a farmer and what is a genuine farmer suicide has tended to be exclusive rather than inclusive. Women are not identified as farmers, especially because land is rarely bought or registered in their names.
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US keen on taking Sewa's agri story to Africa
They have done much more than uplift their own lives. Members of the city-based Self-Employed Women's Association (Sewa), it appears, will now be playing an instrumental role in the empowerment of women farmers in Africa!It seems likely that India and the US will together replicate Sewa's agriculture model in Africa, for the betterment of the...
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'Never Imagined This': Women Farmers Prepare For Their 1st Flight From Noida
Situated in Gautam Buddh Nagar district under the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority, the airport is among the Uttar Pradesh government's marquee infrastructure projects.
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Kisan Diwas 2020: A Woman Farmer On Why She Is Protesting At Delhi Border
Today, as Kisan Diwas or National Farmers' Day is being observed across the country, 'Humans of Bombay' spoke to Sarabjeet about the protests against the farm laws and more.
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GST Framing Needs A Re-look For Women Farmers: Rights Body Chief
New Delhi: The National Commission for Women (NCW) will urge the PMO to step in to address the concerns of women farmers regarding increase of tax under the GST regime, its chairperson Lalitha Kumaramangalam said on Tuesday. Several women farmer leaders are here to participate in the national consultation on rights of women farmers being organised ...
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Free Trade Deal To Hurt Women Farmers, Say Activists
Mumbai: A regional free trade agreement being negotiated this week will hurt the livelihoods of farmers, women and indigenous groups and increase conflicts over land as businesses get easier access, rights groups said on Tuesday. The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) would create a free trade area of more than 3.5 billion people, b...
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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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Why More And More Women Take To Farming, But Remain Invisible
In Kalibhigapar village in Bihar’s Nalanda district, Bachhi Devi’s is an all-women household. It was the lack of money in farming that pushed the men in her family, her husband and three sons, to the cities like Delhi and Kolkata in search of work. Bacchi Devi is 55 and a sharecropper. She leases about half an acre of land from a landowner in h...
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As Loans Pile Up, Bundelkhand's Women Farmers In Distress
In Uttar Pradesh's Bundelkhand region, 46-year-old woman farmer Munni reportedly hanged herself from a tree last Wednesday, right on her farmland which had left her with a debt of Rs 3.5 lakh because it just wasn't yielding.
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Women farmers who commit suicide ignored by state
Critics say the state government's guidelines for defining who is a farmer and what is a genuine farmer suicide has tended to be exclusive rather than inclusive. Women are not identified as farmers, especially because land is rarely bought or registered in their names.
-
US keen on taking Sewa's agri story to Africa
They have done much more than uplift their own lives. Members of the city-based Self-Employed Women's Association (Sewa), it appears, will now be playing an instrumental role in the empowerment of women farmers in Africa!It seems likely that India and the US will together replicate Sewa's agriculture model in Africa, for the betterment of the...
