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Farmers

  • Council deplores water shortage

    Shortage of water rendered most of the farmers unable to sow cotton at the most appropriate time, said District Council members during Wednesday's session. They deplored the daily seven to 10 hours of load-shedding as this was taking toll on the physical, psychological and financial status of Hesco consumers.

  • Protest against GM crops in Delhi

    Hundreds of farmers and consumers from 15 states gathered in the Capital demanding a moratorium on genetically modified (GM) crops. The protest under the banner of the Coalition for a GM-free India comes at a time when the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) is slated to consider Mahyco's application for experimental seed production of its Bt brinjal. Mahyco's joint director of research, Usha Barwale Zehr said, "The last time we had a food crisis, we were bailed out by the Green Revolution.

  • Call for S Africa to rethink land policy

    South Africa's government was urged on Tuesday to implement an immediate review of its land reform policies in a hard-hitting report from a leading think-tank that said the current approach had a dismal record and threatened to lead to a crisis. Without a rapid and thorough change of policy towards reversing the injustices of land ownership under apartheid, agricultural production, investor confidence, race relations and the future of the poor were all under threat, the paper found.

  • Farmers seek ban on GM crops

    Harjant Singh, Hartej Singh, Amarjit Singh, Vinod Jyani and Rajneet Singh are "natural' farmers from the cotton belt of Punjab who were here in the Capital today to demand a complete ban on the Genetically Modified (GM) crops and foods in the country. They were among hundreds of farmers and consumers from 15 states of the country who gathered on "protesting pavement' of the Jantar Mantar saying they would not "become guinea pigs in experimentation in the name of GM food and crops', adding that the GM crops were certainly no answer for the country's food security.

  • Africa's farms reap rewards as cost of raw materials soars

    Historically, there have been tenuous links between farmers and food producers, with many companies having scant knowledge of how and where their ingredients are grown. But as the prices of raw materials soar - from the barley used to make beer or the cocoa used to make chocolate - leading brewers and food manufacturers from Cadbury Schweppes to Diageo are increasingly recognising their businesses will benefit from investment in agriculture.

  • New land rates make six villages feel left out'

    When the Delhi Government announced a three-fold increase in its land acquisition rates earlier this year, from nearly Rs.25 lakh per acre to Rs.75.26 lakh per acre, a huge wave of cheer swept landowners in Delhi's villages. However, as the details of the much trumpeted scheme became known, the happiness turned to despondency in six villages where almost 1,200 acres of land has been acquired but whose owners would still not be able to get the enhanced compensation.

  • 'Corruption, negligence in irrigation department will not be tolerated'

    Senior Minister for Irrigation, Raja Riaz Ahmed has said that corruption or negligence will not be tolerated in the irrigation department, provision of irrigation water at tail ends would be ensured. He also assured that prompt patrolling round the clock would be fully conducted, for checking water theft and irrigation department will be made farmers friendly.

  • Protest against genetically modified crops

    The farmers, environmental and women organisation from different states will be gathering in Delhi on Tuesday in protest against genetically modified (GM) crops. Representatives from 15 states, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, are expected to take part in the protest at Jantar Mantar.

  • Jum cultivation in Bagaihat Reserve Forest defying law

    Burning up trees for jum cultivation threatens environment and ecology in Bagaihat Reserve Forest. The photo was taken from Machalong. At lest 20,000 acres of Bagaihat Reserve Forest in Bagaichhari upazila in Rangamati have been brought under jum cultivating in the current season by ethnic farmers, defying forest laws. The government is loosing a huge amount of revenue and at least 120 types of wildlife including birds have lost their habitats, environmentalists and locals said.

  • The battle within

    CHINSURAH: Support the "police atrocities' on farmers who have been opposing the alleged "forceful' acquisition of farmland in Singur or face consequences. This seems to be the message the CPI-M wants to convey, even to its own supporters in Singur. CPI-M cadres allegedly destroyed field crops of two active members of DYFI ~ the CPI-M's youth wing ~ who had opposed the atrocities.

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