-The Tribune Kurukshetra: Shortage of DAP has triggered panic among Farmers. They have started looking for fertiliser for the wheat-sowing season, but DAP is not easily available. Meanwhile, long queues were witnessed in Shahabad where the Farmers had gathered to procure DAP. The Farmers alleged that an artificial shortage was being created and private players were minting money by selling the fertiliser at exorbitant rates. Sanjeev, a farmer from Alampur village, said: “Farmers...
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Farmers Spend Night In Queue As Madhya Pradesh Fertiliser Crisis Drags On -Anurag Dwary
-NDTV.com Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar has admitted that there is a slight shortage of DAP and blamed international prices. Bhopal: Long queues and loud protests by Farmers can be seen across Madhya Pradesh as the acute shortage of fertilisers in the peak harvesting season drags on. In Ashok Nagar, about 190 km from state capital Bhopal, hundreds of Farmers have been sleeping outside the Mungaoli block headquarters so that they can...
More »Karnal lathicharge: Probe panel records 6 Farmers’ statements
-The Tribune Karnal: The commission formed to probe the August 28 Bastara toll plaza lathicharge incident, led by Justice Somnath Aggarwal (Retd) of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, on Monday reached the PWD Rest House here and recorded the statements of six Farmers. The government had earlier announced that the panel would complete the inquiry in 30 days, but Justice Aggarwal on Monday said it would take around four months. The statements...
More »Explained: Is genetically modified rice grown in India? -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu What is the controversy around export of the grain and will it impact Farmers? The story so far: A French manufacturer of rice flour claimed it had found unauthorised genetically modified rice in a consignment of 500 tonnes of broken rice imported from India this June. Since the European Union does not permit any use of GM rice, manufacturers of confectionery items and baked goods which had used the rice...
More »Will a coffee shot fix Chhattisgarh’s agriculture woes? -Rahul Noronha
-IndiaToday.in The state is experimenting with tea and coffee plantation as part of its attempt to diversify crop Has Chhattisgarh woken up to smell the coffee? For long a preserve of the south, coffee cultivation seems to be traveling north. Things started brewing after a few enterprising farmer entrepreneurs started coffee and tea plantations in the state. The Jashpur district in North Chhattisgarh has a coffee plantation; another was set up on...
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