-The Hindu Whatever be the crop, farmers need guidance at the right time for harvesting a good yield. Right from availability of good seedlings, pest management strategies, regular visits to the plantation sites by experts and sourcing a good market for the produce are not only a farmer's tasks but also involve the experts dealing in the particular area. "The job becomes more challenging when one has to work among tribals and...
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Tamarind turns dearer this season-S Harpal Singh
-The Hindu Adilabad (Andhra Pradesh): The taste of tamarind is likely to turn more tartaric this season given its higher market price at Rs. 70 to Rs. 80 a kg despite the bumper crop. "The crop is good but the cumulative yield is not commensurate as many of the huge old trees have been felled mercilessly in rural area," Killare Namdev, a tamarind trader from Yavatmal in Maharashtra, gives out the reason...
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-The Financial Express MGNREGS fails to deliver on even its own targets Given how less than a tenth of households applying for jobs under the Mahatma Gandhi National rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) have ended up getting the guaranteed 100 days of workin FY14-the figure was 14.5% in FY09-it is obvious the scheme is failing under even its own stated goals. At a time when both economic growth and jobs creation is...
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-The Financial Express In what could be a big question mark on the world's largest jobs scheme. In what could be a big question mark on the world's largest jobs scheme, the number of people who availed the Mahatma Gandhi National rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) fell 8.4% year-on-year in 2013-14, reports Raj Kumar Ray in New Delhi. Also, only a tenth of the people enrolled got the promised 100 days of...
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-NewsMobile.in Suicide rates in India are among the highest in the world. With 187,000 suicides per year, one-fifth of all global suicides occur in India. Farmer suicides are often reported in the media and are subject to a great deal of political debate. A recent study by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine indicated farmer suicides might be disproportionate to the population as whole, reporting rural suicide rates were twice...
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