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Millennial farmers log on to apps for a better yield
Edit The Times of India 27 Sep 2017
Vasant Chormale is a millennial farmer from a tiny village in Maharashtra ... Chormale belongs to a small but growing cluster of farmers increasingly using smartphone apps or relying on on-ground experts from startups for data-driven information ... "These farmers, who focus on horticulture, used to earn Rs 1 lakh per acre and now they earn Rs 2.5 lakh," Sheth said....
‘State’s decision on water talks with Kerala wrong’
Edit The Hindu 27 Sep 2017
The State government’s decision to hold official-level talks to resolve water disputes between Tamil Nadu and Kerala was an attempt to undermine the State’s rights on Mullaperiyar dam and a betrayal to former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, who protected the rights of the State’s farmers through a legal battle, said Tamil Nadu All Farmers’ Associations Coordination Committee president P.R....
Loan waiver scheme: Maharashtra govt receives 77.26 lakh applications
Edit Moneycontrol 27 Sep 2017
These applications were received from 56 lakh farmers' families, an official statement issued by state cooperation minister Subhash Deshmukh said. The Maharashtra government has received applications from 77.26 lakh farmers across the state to avail the benefits of the Rs 34,022 crore farm loan waiver scheme ... According to the statement, of the total applicants, 2,41,628 farmers are yet to provide their Aadhaar number....
Maharashtra to give farm loan waiver by Diwali
Edit DNA India 27 Sep 2017
Blaming banks for not providing complete information of farmers, Minister for Co-operation Subhash Deshmukh on Tuesday said that it would not be possible to provide loan waiver on October 1, 2017 ... After a meeting of the Cabinet sub-committee on loan waiver, Deshmukh informed that the government would be able to deposit money towards loan waiver in farmers’ accounts by Diwali....
Advocates push for James Farmer statue at Harrison County Courthouse
Edit Longview News Journal 27 Sep 2017
MARSHALL — Almost a dozen residents encouraged the Harrison County Commissioners Court to erect a statue of Marshall native and civil rights activist James Farmer Jr ... At age 14, Farmer made history as a member of the 1935 Wiley College Great Debaters team that defeated the University of Southern California — the reigning national champions ... Farmer died in 1999 at age 79 ... "There is only one other statue of Farmer....
COA failed to curb banana overproduction: legislators
Edit Taipei Times 27 Sep 2017
Prices have fallen to less than NT$10 per kilogram, which is the production cost for farmers ... “As the retail price is less than the cost of producing the bananas, some farmers have not harvested their crops ... Farmers have suffered from the price collapse, but the council has not created a policy to deal with situation ... losses for farmers, Chang said....
Maha farmers setting up first #39;cooperative MIDC#39; in state
Edit Moneycontrol 27 Sep 2017
A farmers cooperative in Maharashtra is setting up the state's first industrial colony, on the lines of Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC). A farmers cooperative in Maharashtra is setting up the state's first industrial colony, on the lines of Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) ... "The revenues will be shared with farmers based on their share of land," he said....
Small grains cost-share dollars are now available for farmers
Edit Creston News Advertiser 27 Sep 2017
AMES –Practical Farmers of Iowa (PFI) is seeking to enroll row crop farmers in Iowa, Minnesota or Wisconsin in a small grains cost-share program that runs for up to two years. The program is intended to support conventional farmers or those transitioning to organic who add a year of crops like barley, oats, rye, triticale or wheat followed by a summer cover crop or planted with a legume cover crop like red clover....
‘Congress to launch Kissan Nyay Yatra on CM home turf on October 3’
Edit Hindustan Times 27 Sep 2017
State Congress chief Sachin Pilot said that yatra will demand a complete loan-waiver for farmers, GST exemption on agriculture equipment and raising the minimum support price for farm produce ensuring 50% profit to farmers. Besides youngsters, traders and the common people, it is the farmers who have suffered most in the last three years, Pilot said ... “This is an anti-farmer government,” he said....
Rs 1,566 crore crop loan issued to farmers: Tamil Nadu government
Edit Deccan Chronicle 27 Sep 2017
Raju also said the state government has enrolled more than 78,900 farmers in the Prime Minister’s Fasal Bhima Yojana (Prime Minister’s Crop Insurance Scheme) till September 15, 2017 ... He also said government has also made arrangements to distribute 92,824 Rupay cards to farmers....
Syngenta settles US farmer lawsuits in China corn trade case
Edit Richmond Times Dispatch 27 Sep 2017
lawsuits by farmers over the company's rollout of a genetically engineered corn seed variety before China approved it for imports ... Syngenta said in a statement that the settlement would establish a fund to pay claims by farmers and others who contracted to price corn or corn byproducts after Sept ... farmers for the 2011 growing season with U.S ... farmers choose to plant....
Fonterra makes bid for Australian processor Murray Goulburn
Edit Stuff 27 Sep 2017
Karinjeet Singh-Mahil, who used to be with Fonterra, said the proposal was "like picking at a scab" after the way she and other farmers had been poorly treated. President of United Dairyfarmers Victoria, Adam Jenkins, said Australian farmers would remember Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings' words from last year when they considered the bid ... Dairy companies battle it out in Australia to entice farmers....
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