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Avatar Posted by sandeshp 33 days ago (http://www.mumbaimirror.com)
Category: Agriculture | Tags: maharashtra farmers vidarbha shv sena
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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Avatar Posted by manishbhau 49 days ago (http://www.dnaindia.com)
Category: Agriculture | Tags: farmer suicides rain failure drought
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.

First, he read more »
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Avatar Posted by kiran 66 days ago (http://www.dnaindia.com)
Category: Politics | Tags: raj thackrey mns state elections
Mee Maharashtracha, Maharashtra mazha (I belong to Maharashtra and Maharashtra is mine). I want to see the farmers of Maharashtra wear jeans and drive tractors.” Thus spake Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray at the first rally of his party on March 19, 2006, at Shivaji Park. read more »
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Avatar Posted by manishbhau 68 days ago (http://www.ndtv.com)
Category: General | Tags: sez global warming farmers

Close to 2000 acres of rice fields in Raigad are being destroyed by tidal water. The Maharashtra government is yet to repair the bunds built to keep seawater away. And now the land cannot be productive for three years.

The inclusion of some of this land in the proposed reliance SE read more »
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Avatar Posted by kiran 75 days ago (http://www.expressindia.com)
Category: Agriculture | Tags: vidarbha farmers famers suicide
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. read more »
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Avatar Posted by manishbhau 82 days ago (http://www.rediff.com)
Category: Agriculture | Tags: farmers reliance sez compensation
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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Avatar Posted by manishbhau 114 days ago (http://maharashtratimes.indiatimes.com)
Category: Education | Tags: upsc civil services farmers
* महाराष्ट्रातील ७० विद्यार्थ्यांचा यशाचा झेंडा
* पुण्याची संपदा मेहता राज्यात अव्वल

आतापर्यंतचे सर्व रेकॉर्ड मोडत नागरी सेवा परीक्षेत (यूपीएससी) यंदा महाराष्ट्राने नवा विक्रम नोंदवला आहे. राज्यातील ७० उमेदवार या परीक्षेत उत्तीर्ण झाले आहेत. विशेष म्हणजे यापैकी ४० ते ४२ उमेदवार शेतकरी कुटुंबातील आहेत.

देशाच्या मेरिट लिस्टमध्ये पहिल्या २०० मुलांमध्येही राज्यातील निम्मी मुले असल्यामुळे आय read more »
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Avatar Posted by kiran 151 days ago (http://www.asianage.com)
Category: Mumbai | Tags: largest entertainment hub manori gorai
In MTDC proposed Entertainment SEZ in first week of february and got a tough opposition from local fishermans and farmers. But now MTDC has gone ahaed and opened up four plots of land in the Manori-Gorai belt measuring a total of 45 lakhs square metres in a bid to make the pristine stretch of beaches and mangroves one of the largest entertainment hubs in the country. read more »
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Avatar Posted by manishbhau 166 days ago (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
Category: Agriculture | Tags: farmers loans suicides
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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Avatar Posted by limin 196 days ago (http://www.ibnlive.com)
Category: Agriculture | Tags: mango fruits farmer mango trading
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 read more »
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Avatar Posted by manishbhau 203 days ago (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
Category: Mumbai | Tags: sez industries exports relocation
Over 10,000 people—including fishermen, farmers, social activists and NGOs—on Sunday shouted slogans and marched to the gates of Essel World at Gorai to protest against the Special Economic Zone coming up in the area.

The protesters warned that they would not tolerate any attempt to take away their land to make way for an entertainment zone, which would leave thousands of fishermen and farmers read more »
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Avatar Posted by manishbhau 220 days ago (http://www.outlookindia.com)
Category: Agriculture | Tags: sez farmers agriculture industry
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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Avatar Posted by manishbhau 220 days ago (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
Category: Business | Tags: sez farmers marathwada cooperative
India’s first SEZ (special economic zone) in the co-operative sector, worth Rs 930 crore, will be set up in Girner village near Aurangabad in the backward Marathwada region following the lead taken by a 62-year-old civil engineer-turned-farmer, Mohan Raut.

Encouraged by his own success in the cooperative sector-after graduating from Mumbai’s VJTI in civil engineering, he moved to Aurangabad n read more »
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Avatar Posted by manishbhau 233 days ago (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
Category: Agriculture | Tags: farmers sez land agriculture
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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Avatar Posted by manech 236 days ago (http://www.business-standard.com)
Category: Agriculture | Tags: harvest farmer suicide grape sangli
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. read more »
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