Mumbai: There is no end to the problems facing Maharashtra farmers. Already facing drought, the farmers had hoped that they would be able to sow crops after the monsoon but that is not yet the case. They allege that have not been able to sow new crops as the Maharashtra government has supplied them inferior quality seeds.
As soon as monsoon hit Sholapur in Maharashtra, the farmers of the area started their agricultural activities with renewed hope. However, they were soon disappointed.
The farmers complain that Maharashtra government had supplied then seeds of extremely poor quality. Some farmers in Sholapur say that the black lentil seeds are infested with worms.
They allege that authorities have taken no action despite several complaints. The officers admitted to supplying poor quality seeds after the matter was highlighted by the media. ...
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04:55 PM, Jun 13, 2013
Ahmedabad: Even as Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has been claiming that he is responsible for the state's economic development, land acquisition for industries remains a thorny issue.Thirty-five villages of four districts have started a movementagainst the land acquisition being carried out under the Special Investment Region (SIR). The villagers says that only industrialists benefit from the land acquired for development. Several villages in Gujarat's Mehsana and Ahmedabad have warnings...
11:15 AM, Jun 07, 2013
Mumbai: Maharashtra government will distribute funds to the tune of Rs 2,172 crore received from the Centre over the last couple of years towards drought mitigation to farmers in cash. The decision was taken at the Cabinet meeting on Thursday. The funds were received in the kharif season in 2011, rabbi in 2011-12 and kharif season in 2012, official sources said. The money would be given as compensation to the...
01:06 AM, Jun 07, 2013
Jaipur: Rajasthan BJP president Vasundhara Raje on Sunday said, the party, if voted to power, will take initiatives to improve condition of farmers in the state. Addressing the Suraj Sankalp Yatra in Nagaur district, Raje said the state government did not take any step for welfare of the farming community and did not consider the report of Kisan Ayog, which was submitted to the state government in 2012. The former...
03:15 AM, Jun 03, 2013
New York: If you can't beat them, eat them! A 34-year-old Iraqi farmer claims that he has been consuming live scorpions every day for the past fifteen years and is addicted to them. Ismail Jasim Mohammed, a resident of Samarra in Iraq, said he became tired of getting stung by the dangerous creatures. So, he decided to turn the tables on the creatures and do the biting. Mohammed has been...
07:00 PM, May 30, 2013
Aurangabad: Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi visited Maharashtra's drought affected villages on Tuesday. The affected farmers were expecting that Rahul Gandhi would try to solve their problems and would instruct Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan to start relief operations in the drought-affected areas. But Rahul failed to do so leaving the farmers disappointed. Rahul visited Phulambri tehsil of Aurangabad which is one of the worst drought affected regions of the state on...
12:28 PM, May 29, 2013
Lucknow: A farmer identified as Kapoor Singh allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in Madhavpur village of Uttar Pradesh's Banda district. According to the police, Kapoor Singh hanged himself as he was unable to pay off his Rs 5 lakh debt that he had taken for the marriage of his daughter. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had adopted Madhavpur village in 2007. Police officials say that Kapoor Singh has takes loan...
12:45 PM, May 28, 2013
Anantapur: Through the summer, CNN-IBN has focused on the rising water shortage across several states. Among the worst hit is Andhra Pradesh's Rayalaseema region. With acres of dry land, withered crops and farmers with little hope, drought is now chronic in Andhra Pradesh's Rayalaseema region. Falling ground water levels and three poor monsoons in a row have destroyed livelihoods there. Lack of fodder and water hurts the cattle farmers as...
10:22 AM, May 27, 2013
Bharuch: India would not have lost its sheen as a country of farmers if Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel had been the first Prime Minister, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday, ruing the "poor" national agricultural growth. "The nation is falling behind in agriculture. If 'Khedut Putra' (son of farmer), Sardar Patel had become the first Prime Minister, this would not have happened to our farmers... Somehow, we took the...
05:31 PM, May 18, 2013
Coimbatore: Farmers in Coimbatore region on Friday threatened that they would resort to mass suicides if government went ahead with its plan to increase power tariff. Representatives of various farmers associations told a public hearing on tariff revision here that the agriculture sector in Tamil Nadu is already in the doldrums due to failure of monsoon and resultant drought. "Any upward revision of tariff will be strongly resisted by all...
03:15 AM, May 18, 2013
The usual dusty small-town India greets us as a small group of people associated with the NGO Caring Friends travel over two-and-a-half days through Aurangabad and Jalna to understand the problems in the region and what help could be given. On the face of it, people seem to be going about their normal life. Where are the signs of distress that we had read in the media? Don't girls and...
11:08 PM, May 06, 2013
New Delhi: In a bid to build consensus over immediate roll-back of wealth tax on agriculture land, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal met leaders of Janata Dal (United), Trinamool Congress (TMC) and AIADMK in Delhi on Monday seeking their support for the cause. Badal, accompanied by his deputy and SAD President Sukhbir Singh Badal and MPs Harsimrat Badal and Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, met JD-U President and NDA convener Sharad...
12:46 AM, Apr 30, 2013
Jaipur: Launching a scathing attack on the Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government in Rajasthan, senior BJP leader Vasundhara Raje on Wednesday said it had done nothing for the welfare of farmers, women and youths. Addressing a public meeting in Baran district as part of her "Suraj Sankalp Yatra", the state BJP chief described the Gehlot government as "anti-people". It had done nothing to improve the lot of farmers, women, youths and...
03:00 AM, Apr 25, 2013
Mumbai: Maharashtra's Vidarbha region has seen 168 farmer suicides in the first three months of this 2013. Made up of 11 districts, Vidarbha is home to two-thirds of the state's mineral resources and three-quarters of its forest resources. But poverty and malnutrition and endemic. "According to police reports, 168 farmer suicides have been registered till March 31 this year," said Kishor Tiwari, president of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti, a...
05:35 AM, Apr 22, 2013
Athens: At least 20 migrant strawberry pickers were shot and wounded in southern Greece in a pay dispute after a foreman opened fire on them with a shotgun, police said. The incident occurred near the village of Manolada about 260 kilometers west of Athens. Police Captain Haralambos Sfetsos said most of the wounded workers were from Bangladesh. He said the shooting occurred when about 200 workers at the strawberry field...
03:16 AM, Apr 19, 2013
Hyderabad: In several districts Andhra Pradesh, the state government has not been able to keep its big promise of 7 hours of free power to farmers, pushing desperate farmers to take matters into their own hands, often with tragic consequences. Chief Minister Kiran Reddy's claim seems far fetched with Andhra Pradesh facing an acute power crisis. CNN-IBN travelled to Medak, where seven hours of free power is a myth, claim...
12:35 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Jaipur: The state government has taken several steps in favour of farmers, including no increase in power tariff for five years, but the opposition BJP has labelled us as anti-farmers, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said on Saturday. "An important decision of not increasing the power tariff for farmers for five years was taken after the government was formed. Several other decisions including one that of bonus of Rs 150...
12:05 AM, Apr 14, 2013
Saharanpur: BJP president Rajnath Singh on Friday hit out the SP and BSP for extending support to the UPA government saying the two political parties have cheated the people by backing Congress and its allies at the Centre. "Despite their differences with the Congress, both SP and BSP have cheated people by supporting the UPA government," he said in public rally in Saharanpur. "The UPA government does not have the...
02:55 AM, Apr 13, 2013
Rajgarh: Claims by Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan that hail-frost affected farmers were compensated are just the opposite from what facts conveyed, Digvijaya Singh alleged in Rajgarh on Friday. "If the government has a strong will, then no power on earth can prevent it from compensating farmers," he said while addressing a protest meeting against delay in distribution of relief to hail-frost affected farmers. Talking to reporters, the...
12:57 AM, Apr 13, 2013
Madhubani: A call centre is proving to be quite a lifeline for farmers in Madhubani in Bihar. It is an initiative by Delhi-based Drishti Foundation and is proving to be central to the economy of agriculture in the region. It is a lifeline for the farmers of the Madhubani district, addressing their queries and problems on farming, seed selection, what fertiliser to use and using new-age techniques. The call centre...
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