* State-promoted organic farming has picked up in a big way in Andhra Pradesh * The CMSA programme was initiated in 2004 across a mere 400 acres in 12 villages. * Today, it covers 17 lakh acres in over 4,000 villages in the state. The number of farmers participating in CMSA has risen to more than 6 lakh. Call it going back to the roots. Or call it giving the...
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Ideology can't be wiped out by attacking tribals: Arundhati Roy by Manisha Jha
Dubbing the Centre's talk of ceasefire and talks with naxals “non-serious,” members of democratic and civil rights organisations on Friday demanded that the state stop the military offensive, Operation Greenhunt, “against its own people” and initiate back-channel talks with the CPI (Maoist). Addressing a press conference here, writer and human rights activist Arundhati Roy said: “The government's use of the military to solve political problems is not new. The government has...
More »Farmer suicide rate: 5 a week by Sanjeev Kumar Patro
The bane of farmers’ suicides has taken Orissa in its vice-like grip with five ending their lives in every seven days. The trend has grown by over six per cent in 2008 as the State has climbed the ladder at a notoriously fast pace to rank 12th of the 28 states with most farmer deaths, the statistics released by the National Crime Records Bureau has revealed. The growth is over 40...
More »Over 90 farmers committed suicide in Adilabad district: NGO by DVL Padma Priya
Failure of kharif crop and mounting debts stated to be reasons The interest rate on private loans ranges between 24 and 36 per cent The district witnessed 15 deaths in 3 days during November Sixty-nine farmers from Adilabad district committed suicide during the kharif season that lasted from August to November 2009 and the number grew to 93 by December 15, if reports from the non-governmental organisations and farmers’ associations in Andhra...
More »Allegations of farmers’ suicide not true: Govt
The State Government today told the Orissa High Court that allegations of farmers’ suicide due to crop loss are not true. As per an earlier direction by a division bench of the High Court comprising Justices IM Quddusi and Sanju Panda, State Government submitted its counter to the writ petition filed by Jati Pradhan, secretary to Balangir Zilla Krushak Mahasangha who had alleged farmer suicides in different parts of Orissa. In its...
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