Shiv Sena executive president, Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday demanded that state government should pay Rs 10,000 per acre compensation to farmers who have suffered losses due to insufficient rains in the first sowing.
“The scanty rains across Maharashtra have aggravated the problem of farmers and they are forced to go in for second and third sowing and thus have incurred losses on account of fai read more »
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Relief is trickling in for Kalawati Bandurkar, the widow who has suddenly become the face of Vidarbha's agrarian crisis after Rahul Gandhi mentioned her during the Lok Sabha debate on Tuesday.
But the aid, all from individuals, remains meagre.
On Friday, the mother of nine broke down and threatened to end her life, saying she has only got visits from government officials but no assistance read more »
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Farmers face a year without a steady source of income should the rains fail.
Even if rains now, farmers have no money to buy seeds and fertiliser again since the banks haven’t begun disbursement of credit.
Ramdas Vaidya, 60, a farmer in Amravati is worried. The seven acres he owns in the village of Sheoni Rasulapur wear a barren look. The first two sowings have not germinated.
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Even if rains now, farmers have no money to buy seeds and fertiliser again since the banks haven’t begun disbursement of credit.
Ramdas Vaidya, 60, a farmer in Amravati is worried. The seven acres he owns in the village of Sheoni Rasulapur wear a barren look. The first two sowings have not germinated.
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पाऊस गायब झाल्याने राज्यातील लहान-मोठ्या धरणांमध्ये पाण्याचा अल्प साठा शिल्लक असून, सर्व धरणांचे पाणी केवळ पिण्यासाठीच राखून ठेवण्याचा आणि ते शेती व अन्य कारणांसाठी न देण्याचा निर्णय जलसंपदा मंत्री अजित पवार यांनी गुरुवारी विधानसभेत जाहीर केला.
पावसाने दडी मारल्याने उद्भवलेल्या दुष्काळी परिस्थितीवर दोन्ही सभागृहातील चचेर्स उत्तर देताना ही घोषणा करण्यात आली. उजनी धरणात सध्या उणे २० टक्के पाणीसा read more »
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पावसाने दडी मारल्याने उद्भवलेल्या दुष्काळी परिस्थितीवर दोन्ही सभागृहातील चचेर्स उत्तर देताना ही घोषणा करण्यात आली. उजनी धरणात सध्या उणे २० टक्के पाणीसा read more »
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पुणे आणि ठाण्यातील शून्य लोडशेडिंगसाठी ठरल्यापेक्षा जास्त वीज उपलब्ध होत नसल्याने बुधवारपासून पुणे भागात एक तास आणि ठाणे, नवी मुंबई, भांडुप, मुलुंड, कांजूरमार्ग, वाशी, पनवेल आणि नेरूळ येथे अडीच ते चार तासांच्या लोडशेडिंगची वीज कोसळणार आहे.
पावसाने पाठ फिरविल्याने राज्यावर दुष्काळाचे संकट ओढवले असून वीज व पाण्याचा गंभीर प्रश्न निर्माण झाला आहे. या संकटाला तोंड देण्यासाठी सरकार विविध उपाय करत आह read more »
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पावसाने पाठ फिरविल्याने राज्यावर दुष्काळाचे संकट ओढवले असून वीज व पाण्याचा गंभीर प्रश्न निर्माण झाला आहे. या संकटाला तोंड देण्यासाठी सरकार विविध उपाय करत आह read more »
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The Maharashtra government on Wednesday declared a "drought-like" situation in the state.
The state cabinet took the decision at a meeting in view of below-average rainfall in many regions.
This, the cabinet said, has resulted in only 29 percent of sowing possible so far. read more »
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The state cabinet took the decision at a meeting in view of below-average rainfall in many regions.
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A group of poor, uneducated Dalit women from Andhra Pradesh, is in mumbai and they have a piece of advice for Vidarbha’s farmers. They are asking vidarbha farmers to shift to food crops and stay strong, not just to survive, but also to live with dignity.
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Traffic on the Mumbai-Goa national highway was on Tuesday disrupted as 500-odd farmers protesting against the setting up of a special economic zone in Raigad district blocked the road for more than two hours.
Eknath Thakur, a farmer from Div village who owns two-and-a-half acres, said: "We would not have opposed the land acquisition if any industry was coming here. But the SEZ will only fulfi read more »
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Eknath Thakur, a farmer from Div village who owns two-and-a-half acres, said: "We would not have opposed the land acquisition if any industry was coming here. But the SEZ will only fulfi read more »
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Traumatised by the meagre compensation paid to him by the state government for his agricultural land, a 56-year-old Jalgaon-based farmer attempted suicide by consuming rat poison on Thursday morning.
The government, which took away the farmer's 2.3-acre land 18 years ago, has paid him only Rs 1 lakh over the years. The last instalment for the land, which now costs Rs 50 lakh, reportedly came read more »
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The government, which took away the farmer's 2.3-acre land 18 years ago, has paid him only Rs 1 lakh over the years. The last instalment for the land, which now costs Rs 50 lakh, reportedly came read more »
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It seems finance minister P Chidambaram's loan-waiver Union budget has failed to stem the suicides in Vidarbha.
As many as 14 farmers of the agrarian crisis-hit region have committed suicide in the past three days, taking the toll to 61 after the Rs 60,000 crore farm loan waiver was announced. read more »
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As many as 14 farmers of the agrarian crisis-hit region have committed suicide in the past three days, taking the toll to 61 after the Rs 60,000 crore farm loan waiver was announced. read more »
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Farmer Vishnu Baburao Sarode from Vidarbha came to Mumbai last Wednesday to sell his kidney to pay off a steep debt and to ensure his children’s future; he fortunately met the right people who gave him Rs 5,000 and sent him back home.
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A debt-ridden farmer in Maharashtra committed suicide Monday by consuming poison in a government office near here, blaming the entire state machinery “from the local police station to the chief minister’s office” for his desperate act. The farmer, Devendra Khedkar (28) of Jitapur village in Akola district’s Murtijapur sub-distict, was rushed first to the sub-district hospital and then to the Akol
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Although summer is some time away, Mumbai has already started welcoming the king of fruits a full month early. The prolonged & intense winter that hit the usually warm state last month resulted in mangoes being picked by farmers and transported to markets earlier
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Avasari Khurd, a typical nondescript Maharashtrian village, may well rewrite the unhappy script that the SEZ (special economic zone) story has followed so far.
Nestled in the plains of Ambegaon, 40 km from Pune, Avasari's farmers have designed an SEZ that will be owned, largely constructed, and managed by themselves.
"The Avasari farmer," says 72-year-old Sopanrao Bhor, prime mover of read more »
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Nestled in the plains of Ambegaon, 40 km from Pune, Avasari's farmers have designed an SEZ that will be owned, largely constructed, and managed by themselves.
"The Avasari farmer," says 72-year-old Sopanrao Bhor, prime mover of read more »
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Herein probably lies the key to avoiding strife over special economic zones (SEZs).
While industrialists are eyeing farmers' land across the country, a village barely 40 km from the city has taken the initiative to set up its very own SEZ.
And now, the state government has given the go-ahead for this the first farmers' SEZ in the country, which will be set up at Avasari Khurd village in read more »
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While industrialists are eyeing farmers' land across the country, a village barely 40 km from the city has taken the initiative to set up its very own SEZ.
And now, the state government has given the go-ahead for this the first farmers' SEZ in the country, which will be set up at Avasari Khurd village in read more »
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