किसानों को हुआ लाखों का नुकसान, मुआवजा मिला 2000 रुपए

बिहार में पान की खेती कर रहे किसानों को पिछले साल काफी नुकसान हुआ था, लेकिन डेढ़ साल बाद जब मुआवजा मिला तो किसान ...

Cyclone Amphan hit 100,000 ha farmland: Odisha minister

Farmers rue crop loss, blame state for insufficient insurance policy

खत्म होने के कगार पर पान की विरासत

पिछले दो दशकों से पान की यह संस्कृति भी सबसे बुरे दौर से गुजर रही है। जलवायु परिवर्तन के दौर में उसके अस्तित्व पर ...

Fani damaged betel vineyards in Odisha

The natural disaster, which claimed over 40 lives, has caused huge losses to around 8,000 paan farmers across Odisha’s …

Why do you like paan?

Passersby at the PVR Saket market in New Delhi, India explain why they do or do not like paan.

Nuts over betel

COVID-19: Losses stoke fear among Bengal’s betel leaf farmers

More than 1.5 mln betel leaf farmers stare at losses in the state

Betel benefit

Compounds in paan leaf can kill several pathogenic bacteria

Too costly to grow

High input cost and erratic weather take toll

COVID-19 and Cyclone Amphan: Betel vine farmers struck by double blow

West Bengal’s Purba Medinipur district was the worst hit 

Protest against POSCO continues; farmers rebuild destroyed betel vineyards

Cases have been filed against many farmers who re-erected their farms

Paan loses flavour

Iconic paan no more appeals to farmers, traders and common people. They say the contagious spread of chewing tobacco, especially gutkha, is fast …

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