-DailyPioneer.com Food grain traders protest against tax hike Ranchi: Different trade bodies associated with Federation of Jharkhand Chamber of Commerce and Industries (FJCCI) on Wednesday staged a symbolic protest against the agriculture marketing tax imposed by the State government. The trade organizations associated with fruits, vegetables, food grains, rice mills, retail traders and others participated in the protest. The trade bodies questioned the imposition of new agriculture tax in the State (Jharkhand) where...
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Waterlogging pushes Haryana farmers to sell agricultural land, take up odd jobs -Sat Singh
-Mongabay.com - Perennial waterlogging in agricultural fields of Charkhi Dadri is making them uncultivable. Farmers are adopting alternate occupations or taking land on lease in other villages to continue farming. - While groundwater scarcity is a problem in many parts of North India, some 319 villages in Haryana have the opposite issue of waterlogging because of high groundwater levels. - Government interventions, saline water draining attempts and subsidies for crop diversification, along with...
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-TheWire.in The WHOlesale price inflation for wheat in March was 14%. The retail prices will, therefore, reflect the same once the peak arrival season is over, in June 2022. Even the critics of India’s public distribution system (PDS) acknowledge that it worked well during the Covid-19 pandemic. Additional allocations of free food grains at 5 kg per person per month, under Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY), helped prevent mass hunger...
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-SabrangIndia.in A lesson in leadership from the 74-year-old CPI (M) Politburo member WHOse heroic act helped diffuse a volatile situation from escalating What should a leader of a major political party do, when a communally sensitive situation is brewing in a densely populated area of the city they live in? Visit the spot and try to calm the situation? Or perhaps communicate the legal status and court ruling that is crucial to...
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