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Lethal impact by R Krishnakumar

The issues relating to the victims of endosulfan, sprayed in the plantations of Kasargod district in Kerala, have snowballed once again. “Earthworms emerged from the soil, and, subsequently, died. Then birds came to eat the earthworms and they died as well.”   “Some termites were killed in a cotton farm sprayed with endosulfan. A frog fed on the dead termites, and was immobilised a few minutes later. An owl which flew over...

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India Needs A Seed Liability Bill by Devinder Sharma

For past several weeks, thousands of farmers in Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Chhatisgarh, Rajasthan, Bihar and Jharkhand have been left in the lurch. They had planted urd and til crops in a large acreage, and to their dismay no grain formation took place in the standing crop. Unable to bear the economic loss, at least four farmers have reportedly committed suicide. Thousands of farmers have been pushed deeper into economic distress....

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CCI to bail out cotton farmers

The Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) has decided to purchase stocks from farmers, who have been on a warpath for two months demanding a higher support price for their crop. Sources said bowing to pressure from farmers and political parties, the Union government cleared the decks for launching purchase centres by CCI in the state. Field-level officials at CCI, however, are still wary about the arrival of poor quality of stocks...

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Nirma plant: SC holds out hope for Mahuva farmers

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Union Ministry of Environment & Forest (MoEF) to file its reply on whether the proposed cement plant by Nirma Limited in Mahuva taluka of Bhavnagar district would pollute or adversely affect the water body on the site. A three-judge SC bench comprising Chief Justice S H Kapadiya, Justice Swatanter Kumar and Justice K S Radhakrishnan issued the notice while hearing a Special...

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Farmers in Mysore protest land acquisition

While the Yeddyurappa-led BJP government in Karnataka is embroiled in a land scam, farmers are up in arms against the acquisition of their lands for industrial use in Mysore district. They have alleged that the government was acquiring 25,000 acres of land. Dismissing their allegation, authorities have come out with a statement saying that they were acquiring 8,520 acres in the district as a mutual consent of farmers. The clarification has come...

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