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Govt’s plan to import maize may hurt farmers
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Govt’s plan to import maize may hurt farmers

If the cereal grain is imported at low prices in non-harvest season, it will create a cheap stock impacting the upcoming harvest
February 19, 2019
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Scientists identify proteins linked with wheat infection
Agriculture

Scientists identify proteins linked with wheat infection

Punjab's cold storage owners struggle to stay in business
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Punjab's cold storage owners struggle to stay in business
15 states yet to use funds of Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana
Agriculture

15 states yet to use funds of Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana
Apple line goes topsy-turvy in the Himalayas
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Apple line goes topsy-turvy in the Himalayas

The traditional apple growing areas are shifting with changing pattern of rainfall and increasing temperature
February 06, 2019
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PM-KISAN challenge: Centre may end up spending only a fifth before elections
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PM-KISAN challenge: Centre may end up spending only a fifth before elections

Lack of land records, poor Aadhar-linkage can cap disbursement at Rs 3,500 cr this financial year
February 05, 2019
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Shadowed by Khajuraho, singhara cultivators struggle
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Shadowed by Khajuraho, singhara cultivators struggle

As the Archaeological Survey of India takes over a lake near the temple town, the livelihood of a community that depends upon growing water chestnuts is at stake
February 04, 2019
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Interim Budget 2019: Farmer leaders criticise PM Kisan Samman Nidhi
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Interim Budget 2019: Farmer leaders criticise PM Kisan Samman Nidhi

Say it adds insult to the injury of farmers
February 04, 2019
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Trial after error
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Trial after error

The Supreme Court's decision to resend Monsanto's Bt cotton case to the trial court will ensure judicial scrutiny of all aspects of the patent once again
February 04, 2019
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Interim Budget 2019: 'Gokul Mission funds have not been suitably utilised at all'
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Interim Budget 2019: 'Gokul Mission funds have not been suitably utilised at all'

The scheme is just 'lip service' for the Modi government says official even as Piyush Goyal allocates Rs 750 crore to it
February 01, 2019
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A wrong righted: Chhattisgarh becomes first state to give farmers their land back
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A wrong righted: Chhattisgarh becomes first state to give farmers their land back

Chhattisgarh has set an example by returning land acquired forcefully from over 1,700 farmers for a steel plant. Can other states follow suit?
February 01, 2019
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Interim Budget 2019: Government's big farmer push falls short
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Interim Budget 2019: Government's big farmer push falls short

The government’s 6,000 per year offer works out to Rs 3.30 a day, which can't even buy a cup of tea  
February 01, 2019
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Himachal's farm success story at risk of going awry
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Himachal's farm success story at risk of going awry

Controlled-atmosphere farming shows a way of bucking agrarian crisis
January 30, 2019
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Punjab's marginalised communities struggle for their right to cultivate common lands
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Punjab's marginalised communities struggle for their right to cultivate common lands

People from the scheduled caste have once protested against big landlords who have taken control of fertile common lands and they are all set to fight a second battle to reclaim the land that is rightfully their own
January 29, 2019
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Padma Shri awardees include 12 farmers
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Padma Shri awardees include 12 farmers

Out of the 94 Padma Shri awardees, 12 farmers have been awarded for various activities like organic farming, traditional seed conservation and use of scientific methods in cultivation
January 28, 2019
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Half-way, doubling farmers’ income is a distant dream
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Half-way, doubling farmers’ income is a distant dream

Farmers’ produces enter deflation zone; in general they don’t get return on their investments
January 27, 2019
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New web-based platform to help with micro irrigation
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New web-based platform to help with micro irrigation

Researchers have come up with a web-based application that helps design customised micro-irrigation systems for individual agricultural fields
January 22, 2019
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Drying reservoirs, low winter crop yield, and a simmering water crisis
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Drying reservoirs, low winter crop yield, and a simmering water crisis

About 300 districts have already been declared drought-hit by states 
January 21, 2019
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Moving towards a planet-friendly diet
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Moving towards a planet-friendly diet

New study recommends more fruits and veggies, less red meat for a healthy, planet-friendly diet
January 17, 2019
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Happy Makar Sankranti. Or is it?
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Happy Makar Sankranti. Or is it?

As we celebrate the harvest festival, we can’t forget that our farmers lose Rs 63,000 crore every year for not being able to sell their produce
January 14, 2019
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India’s Cow Crisis Part 5: Penalty for abandoning cattle final nail in coffin
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India’s Cow Crisis Part 5: Penalty for abandoning cattle final nail in coffin

The increasing trend of legal penalty for abandonment will backfire
January 11, 2019
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India’s Cow Crisis Part 4: The stigma of Mewat
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India’s Cow Crisis Part 4: The stigma of Mewat

How this backward district in Haryana has borne the brunt of stringent cow-related laws
January 10, 2019
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Centre asks NDDB to estimate India's milk demand
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Centre asks NDDB to estimate India's milk demand

The country does not know how much milk is needed despite its growth having exceeded targets
January 10, 2019
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Slumping potato prices hit farmers, but worse is yet to come
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Slumping potato prices hit farmers, but worse is yet to come

Farmers and cold storage owners pay the price of producing and storing bumper crops as wholesale prices dip by 39-50 per cent in December
January 09, 2019
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India's Cow Crisis Part 3: Brutal to kill India’s ancient uber economy
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India's Cow Crisis Part 3: Brutal to kill India’s ancient uber economy

Sunita Narain on cow-vigilantism, cattle trade and the collapse of the livestock economy of India
January 08, 2019
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