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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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“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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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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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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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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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.
The state government machinery was not even inclined to understand the plight of the cotton farmers, the report said. read more »
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The state government machinery was not even inclined to understand the plight of the cotton farmers, the report said. read more »
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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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There seems no respite to the suicides of farmers in Vidarbha, despite Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh claiming a drop in farmers suicide case.
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The spate of farmers suicides in crisis-ridden Vidarbha of Maharashtra has drastically come down this year, the State Government has claimed.
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