-Business Standard So far, in the southern Peninsula and northwest India, the southwest monsoon is around 15 per cent and three per cent above normal, respectively New Delhi: Northwest Indian states of Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and punjab might get good rains from June 26 to July 10, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Thursday in its weather update. The southwest monsoon, according to IMD, has been around 18 per cent below normal...
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Machines back to help transplant paddy in punjab -Divya Goyal
-The Indian Express The machines failed to click with farmers after the state government imported around 650 such machines from China and Japan and supplied them to the farmers on subsidy. Ludhiana: Paddy transplantation is on in full swing in the state and back in action this season are the forgotten transplanters. The machines failed to click with farmers after the state government imported around 650 such machines from China and Japan and...
More »Kharif sowing begins as monsoon finally hits north, central India -Jayashree Bhosale
-The Economic Times PUNE: After a delay of eight days, the monsoons have finally hit most parts of Maharashtra and central India. With this, sowing of kharif crops like paddy, cotton, maize, oilseeds and pulses, is expected to gather pace. Sowing is expected to peak by the last week of June and first week of July. After hovering over Karnataka coast around June 10-18, the monsoons have covered most parts of Maharashtra...
More »The bitter tales of Shamli’s sugarcane farmers: ‘Netas talk palayan (exodus), our issue bhugtan (payment)’ -Harish Damodaran
-The Indian Express Even though Shamli tops in sugarcane production, there is nearly Rs 300 crore dues for district farmers. Shamli/ Kairana: Mohkam Singh supplied 22 buffalo carts of cane, each laden with 18 quintals, to the sugar mill at Shamli belonging to Sir Shadi Lal Enterprises Ltd in the 2015-16 crushing season. These 400 quintals should have fetched about Rs 1.12 lakh at the Uttar Pradesh government’s state advised price (SAP)...
More »Not a single addict sent by courts to 30 punjab rehab centres -Abhinav Garg
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: At a time when 'Udta punjab' has put the spotlight on the state's crippling drug problem, not much is being done to rehabilitate addicts, according to RTI queries. At least 30 rehab centres run by the punjab government or linked to it have not received a single addict sent on court orders, punjab's health department admitted in its response to RTI questions. Sections 27, 39 and...
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