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  UP: Farmer injured after assailants open fire in Muzaffarnagar

  India | February 07, 2020 13:43 IST

  A 40-year-old farmer was shot by miscreants when he had gone to irrigate his fields at a village in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district

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  Farmers' body wants duty hike on cigarettes withdrawn

  Business | February 02, 2020 23:36 IST

  Following the Union Budget 2020-21's proposal of an increase in the National Calamity Contingent Duty (NCCD) on cigarettes, the Federation of All India Farmers' Association (FAIFA) on Sunday said that the hike would adversely affect the livelihood of tobacco farmers in the country and urged the government to roll it back.

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  Farmer with minor daughter attempts breaking into Matoshree, Thackeray asks police to release both

  India | January 05, 2020 14:25 IST

  The farmer - identified as one Deshmukh - had come from Panvel in Raigad district and armed with some filed papers, tried to force his way onto the high-security road outside 'Matoshree', in suburban Bandra east.

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  Amethi farmer gets free liver transplant

  India | November 06, 2019 12:07 IST

  A poor farmer from the Amethi district got a free liver transplant after the department of surgical gastroenterology at King George's Medical University (KGMU) here played good samaritan for him. Gyanendra Pratap Singh, 41, was suffering from liver cirrhosis, and the prognosis was not favourable without a transplant, the doctors had opined.

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  Gujarat HC dismisses 120 Farmers' plea against land acquisition

  India | September 19, 2019 16:44 IST

  In a major boost to ambitious 1.08-trillion-rupees bullet train project, Gujarat High Court on Thursday dismissed the petition filed by farmers objecting to land acquisition process.

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  Drought-hit Bihar farmers to get Rs 3,000 per month

  India | September 13, 2019 22:20 IST

  The cabinet meeting was chaired by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. It approved a compensation of Rs 3,000 to each farmer family in the drought-affected 896 panchayats in 18 districts.

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  MP farmers harvesting rainwater to check water woes

  India | September 05, 2019 12:08 IST

  While water shortage has been the bane of Salichauka village for long, a local farmer, Manoj Rai, has devised a solution not only to tackle the issue but also to find a way to manage excess rainwater and use it to recharge water sources. To do this, he used waste material to channel the water to borewells and dry wells using a pipeline network.  

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  Delhi to soon implement M S Swaminathan recommendations

  India | August 25, 2019 15:51 IST

  Under the proposed scheme, the Minimum Support Price (MSP) with 50 per cent margin at the cost of production is likely to be Rs 2,616 per quintal for wheat and Rs 2,667 quintal for paddy in the national capital

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  Kidney bikau hai: UP farmer puts kidney for sale after bank denies loan to start business

  India | August 23, 2019 7:25 IST

  Distressed over mounting debt, a 30-year-old farmer in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur has put up posters seeking buyers for one of his kidneys after government banks allegedly turned down his loan requests. The farmer identified as Ram Kumar, a resident of Chattar Sali village has put up posters on the city walls and on several social media platforms.

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  Upset farmers lock 200 cows in UP school

  India | August 14, 2019 10:04 IST

  More than 200 cows were ushered into a government primary school in Sambhal district and locked in on Tuesday even when the classes were going on.

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  Meet Bhaiyya Ram Yadav, 55-year-old farmer who created 50 hectares of forest in Uttar Pradesh

  India | July 24, 2019 16:49 IST

  Bhaiyya Ram Yadav, a 55-year-old farmer in Bharatpur of Chitrakoot district in Bundelkhand region, has created a forest by planting saplings on 50 hectares of barren land in his village.  

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  PM-KISAN Yojana: Over 2.69 lakh farmers yet to get 1st tranche of promised money

  India | July 19, 2019 15:59 IST

  Stating that many states have rolled out the scheme, Minister of State for Agriculture Parshottam Rupala during the Question Hour urged the West Bengal and Delhi governments to implement the scheme at the earliest and ensure benefits reach farmers. The issue of non-availability of authenticated land records in Manipur, Nagaland and Jharkhand has been sorted out. In Jharkhand where land records have not been updated since 1932, the state government has been asked to update it soon, he added.

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  57-year-old farmer commits suicide in Banda

  Crime | July 17, 2019 16:36 IST

  A 57-year-old farmer committed suicide by hanging himself at his farm in Brahma Dera village under City Kotwali Police Station in Banda on Wednesday, officials said.

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  Solar scheme to assure Rs 1 lakh income for farmers

  Budget | July 04, 2019 15:07 IST

  Power Minister R.K. Singh on Thursday informed the Lok Sabha during Question Hour that farmers can use their land to install solar panels and the power generated will be bought by the government. 

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  Bengal rolls out free crop insurance scheme for farmers

  India | June 28, 2019 18:25 IST

  The crop insurance scheme would be "free of cost for the farmers" as the government would pay the entire premium and the insurable crops are Aman and Aus paddy, jute and maize.

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  Govt seriously working for welfare of poor, farmers: Gadkari

  India | June 26, 2019 20:25 IST

  Inaugurating the cleaning and deepening work of a pond in Qutubgarh village for rainwater harvesting, Gadkari also exhorted rural youth to take up new and modern modes of employment for improving their income.

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  Indian retaliatory tariffs to hit Californian farmers: Congressman

  India | June 21, 2019 0:00 IST

  The retaliatory tariffs imposed by India on several American products - particularly agricultural items like walnut, almond and apple - will badly hit millions of farmers in California

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  Mangaluru farmer invents ingenious motorbike to climb trees for spraying pesticides

  India | June 17, 2019 15:10 IST

  A 48-year-old farmer, Ganapathi Bhat made it easy by inventing an ingenious motorbike which has made cultivation and maintenance of Areca nut plantation easier. With his invention, a person can easily climb for spraying pesticides and plucking the nuts, up to the top of the tree while just sitting on it.

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  UP farmers duped as quintals of seeds supplied only on paper

  India | June 04, 2019 18:04 IST

  Quintals of seeds meant for distribution to poor farmers were purchased and supplied, but merely on paper, by top officials of Uttar Pradesh government.

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  PM-Kisan scheme: About 4.74 crore farmers to get second installment from next month

  Politics | March 23, 2019 17:36 IST

  Of these 4.74 crore beneficiaries, 2.74 crore farmers have so far received the first installment and the rest will be covered by month-end, he said.