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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Kadegaon and Tasgaon have, respectively, seen five and four grape-growing farmers commit suicide over the past year. Their deaths add to a deadly tally of 70-odd suicides by grape growers over the past two years — a bizarre juxtaposition to the celebratory enthusiasm of the local politicians.
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मदर डेअरी, मल्टी कमोडीटी एक्स्चेंज फायनान्शियल टेक्नॉलॉजी ऑफ इंडिया अशा तीन कंपन्यांची मिळून 'सफल नॅशनल एक्स्चेंज ऑफ इंडिया' ही कंपनी तयार झालीय. तिच्या माध्यमातून read more »
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Besieged by debt, three young onion farmers from Daregaon have asked for voluntary death in a letter to the President. Piali Banerjee and Ram Parmar went over to the village to talk to them
When all anger is spent, all hope is lost and all fight has left you, you usually call out to your opponents to come kill you. That’s exactly the state of mind of three young onion farmers of Daregaon villa read more »
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When all anger is spent, all hope is lost and all fight has left you, you usually call out to your opponents to come kill you. That’s exactly the state of mind of three young onion farmers of Daregaon villa read more »
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Bailed out by the state Government last season following a sugarcane glut, the sugar industry in Maharashtra is heading for a much serious crisis.
The abundance of cane this season is likely to result in over 100 lakh tonnes of cane remaining uncrushed, as against 43 lakh tonnes last year.
Since the state Government includes politicians who are also sugar barons, the package to bail out t read more »
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The abundance of cane this season is likely to result in over 100 lakh tonnes of cane remaining uncrushed, as against 43 lakh tonnes last year.
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With suicides by debt-ridden farmers continuing unabated, Kisan Coordination Committee (KCC) has come out with a "novel plan" to "bid goodbye" to debt by dumping loan documents in the sea here on the eve of the new year.
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They are the reluctant inheritors of wealth. Reluctant, not because they don’t want the money, but they don’t want it at the cost of one thing they cherish as much as their lives — their farm land which is under threat of being acquired for the proposed new international airport at Chakan.
Unlike in some other villages, also in Khed taluka, where land is being acquired quite peacefully and wi read more »
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Unlike in some other villages, also in Khed taluka, where land is being acquired quite peacefully and wi read more »
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Liquor-laced chocolates, we’re familiar with. But liquor-sprayed vegetable is still virgin ground, one would think. Not quite. For farmers in dozens of villages in the Haveli and Purandar talukas of Pune district, government-approved country liquor (desi daru) and hathpatti (local illegal brew) have been donning the role of key agricultural input for almost one year, a trend that could well sweep
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The Centre, with the assistance of the Asia Development Bank, is planning to open 60 agri business centres (ABCs) in Maharashtra, including 12 in Nashik district, next year. The move is aimed at creating a platform for farmers for direct sale of their produce and help them fetch a better price.
Only two states in the country � Maharashtra and Bihar � have been selected for this novel project. read more »
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Only two states in the country � Maharashtra and Bihar � have been selected for this novel project. read more »
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