Maharashtra's minister for water resources, Ramraje Naik-Nimbalkar,is a busy man. After all, it requires considerable ingenuity and a lot of paperwork to try and sell a 208-km stretch of a major river—the Nira—and the Deogarh dam on it to the highest private bidder.
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Claiming that its neem plantation campaign in the Vidarbha region of Maharasthra has helped in bringing down the suicide rate among farmers, the Neem Foundation on Tuesday said it planned to extend the scheme across the country
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Nearly 1,50,000 Indian farmers committed suicide in nine years from 1997 to 2005, official data show. While the suicides occurred in many States, nearly two-thirds of such deaths were concentrated in five States where just a third of the country’s population lives. This means that farm suicides occurred in these (mainly cash crop) regions with appalling intensity.
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For farmers, organized retails like reliance fresh is a good opportunity for making more money, they get better value for their goods, free pick up of his produce, no commission agent and goods are weighed electronically. As least this is what some of the news reports says, unless there is a different ground reality.
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दुष्काळाचा प्रश्न असो... पुराची समस्या असो... वा कर्जाच्या ओझ्याखाली दबलेल्या शेतकऱ्यांनी जवळ केलेला गळफास, कोट्यवधी रुपयांच्या पॅकेजचे सरकारी उत्तर तयार असते. या पॅकेजमधील निधी वाहताना सरकारी आणि प्रशासकीय जमिनीत इतका जिरत जातो की वंचितांचे हात बहुतांश कोरडेच राहतात.
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Global news agency Reuters on Monday kicked off a mobile information service in Maharashtra that will provide thousands of farmers in the state with critical information about commodity prices, weather forecasts and other important news, in their native language.
The information, which will cost the farmer Rs60 a month, will help him achieve better yields by providing him with accurate weather f read more »
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Onion prices are going through the roof, and you can blame it on the rain. The torrential downpours this year have damaged part of the crop, pushing retail prices from Rs 15 per kg in mid-August to Rs 25 on Saturday.
Onion is an important economic indicator and is one of the five foods — potato, rice, wheat and pulses are the others — whose prices are used to calculate the inflation rate. Ris read more »
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Sweet news indeed ... but are the politicians and bureaucrats listening ???
Whereas 98 per cent of the water used for irrigation in Maharashtra goes towards sugarcane cultivation, TSB can be grown in dry areas with one-third to half the water.
Sugarcane needs an initial harvest period of 18 months and 3 ratoons of 12 months each. TSB can be harvested after five months with a yield pegged a read more »
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Whereas 98 per cent of the water used for irrigation in Maharashtra goes towards sugarcane cultivation, TSB can be grown in dry areas with one-third to half the water.
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Biogas has not been commercially viable because of the high amount of biodegradable waste required to produce small quantity of methane.
This scene is likely to change with the development of Compact Biogas Plant, which requires small amount of biodegradable waste and can be installed in a household. About 40 kg of dung is required to ferment for 40 days to produce 250 gm of methane. read more »
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This scene is likely to change with the development of Compact Biogas Plant, which requires small amount of biodegradable waste and can be installed in a household. About 40 kg of dung is required to ferment for 40 days to produce 250 gm of methane. read more »
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It was an oft-repeated comment — that people, indeed, farmers, from Vidarbha are lazy — but Union minister for textile Shankar Sinh Vaghela and Maharashtra CM Mr. Deshmukh could not have made it at a worse time or place.
Those who attended this function went back disappointed. They had come in the hope that some measures would be announced to alleviate the suffering of the of the fa read more »
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Giving an assurance to the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh to speed up growth rate of agriculture, the state government yesterday claimed that almost half of the relief package of Rs. 3750 crore for Vidarbha farmers, announced last year by Dr. Singh, had been implemented so far.
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That’s not the Sena-BJP’s conclusion but a scathing indictment by the party’s own committee set up to investigate farmers’ suicides.
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With a spate of suicides by farmers due to unscrupulous moneylenders, a central bank panel has called for their compulsory registration with flexibility to state governments in fixing the maximum interest rate.
Accordingly, the group has suggested a set of conditions in the pacts between the banks, financial institutions and accredited loan providers, as also some safeguard measures like enablin read more »
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Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has offered to help the Maharasthra government set up agro-kiosks to serve farmers in the state, apart from setting up a research centre near Pune, Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh has said.
Do we need computers to reduce suicide of farmers?
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Sunil Joshi a secretary of a NGO based in nagpur was in Mumbai promoting bamboo products from the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, which is witnessing
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