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Avatar Posted by kiran 160 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 251 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 kiran 253 days ago (http://www.mumbaimirror.com)
Category: Agriculture | Tags: vishnu baburao sarode vidarbha farmers
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. read more »
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Avatar Posted by kiran 448 days ago (http://www.asianage.com)
Category: Agriculture | Tags: vidarbha farmers
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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Avatar Posted by kiran 456 days ago (http://www.cybernoon.com)
Category: Agriculture | Tags: maharashtra agriculture vidarbha
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. read more »
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Avatar Posted by kiran 560 days ago (http://samachaar.in)
Category: Agriculture | Tags: farmers vidarbha
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 read more »
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