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Farmer shows the way to beat the heat-Sangamesh Menasinakai

-DNA   Gadag: Rajendra Shirol, a Farmer from the drought prone Gadag district, has found a way to find some respite from the increasing temperature. He has cultivated an Ayurvedic herbal crop `Ashwagandha', botanically known as ‘Withania somnifera.' He has been encouraging about 100 Farmers in the Gadag and Koppal districts to sow the seeds of Ashwagandha, that can grow in plenty, despite the scarcity of water, infertility of land, hot temperature and...

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Punjab Farmers try religious route to shun pesticides -Alok Gupta

-Down to Earth   Ask religious institutions to grow organic crops and accept organic crops as donation for langars In Pandori Ragsangh village in Amritsar, Farmer leader Gurlal Singh takes a large sip of hot milk and asks fellow Farmer, Jagdish Singh, about the "poison." "This year, there is too much of poison," Jagdish replies. It takes a while to understand that the Farmers are discussing lethal pesticides used to grow wheat....

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Sardar Sarovar: Gujarat’s battle on height won, but war on canals ahead -Virendra Pandit

-The Hindu Business Line   State has to build 52,340 km-long canal network if the Narmada's waters are to reach Gujarat Farmers   AHMEDABAD, JUNE 13: Gujarat Government may have won the eight-year-long battle to install 30 sluice gates at Sardar Sarovar dam on the river Narmada, thereby increasing its height by 17 metres to 138.68 m, but its real challenge may have just begun.   The Sardar Sarovar project has been unique as it has...

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Scheme to help Farmers sell vegetables in Aurangabad -Himanshu Nitnaware

-The Times of India   AURANGABAD: The agriculture department has initiated a scheme for Farmers to help them sell vegetables in the city. The department would spend a sum of Rs 17 crore in the next two years for the same. Janardhan Jadhav, divisional joint director of agriculture, here said that the government allocated Rs 300 in 2011-12 under Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana for implementation of a vegetable initiative for urban clusters. It...

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Agriculture And Not The Stock Market Is The Reality Of India -Roshan Kishore

-The Citizen.in This piece is a rejoinder to an article by D K Joshi, which appeared in ‘The Indian Express' on June 4, 2014. The main arguments made by the author are neither new nor unique. Many neoliberal economists, including some occupying crucial policy-making positions have been making arguments which propose dilution of Minimum Support Price (MSP) policies to take care of excess food stocks with the government and also control...

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