Rift within West Bengal's Left government over land acquisition
West Bengal proposes land acquisition, ruling Front riven
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Eating out
The business of food is not restricted to processed food. Today, Indian homes increasingly buy processed or packaged cereals and processed edible oils to cook food.
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Turnaround time
Indian agriculture is coming free of the traditional mandis, with the spread of credit to farmers, involvement of the corporate sector and futures commodity exchanges
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Contract killers
Poultry farmers looking down wrong end of the barrel
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A future food hub?
<font class="UCASE">on april</font>10, 2006, the Orissa Assembly gave its consent for contract farming in the state.
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Farmers: consumers
A consumer court s landmark verdict on irrigation
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Spirit of videshi
By turning our backs on swadeshi, we have left cotton farmers in the lurch
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Monsanto marked
A group of Texan cotton farmers has sued Monsanto and two affiliated companies for massive crop losses. The farmers claimed the companies failed to warn them of a defect in their genetically altered
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Wheel of fortune
What happened to appropriate technology?
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Cotton crucible
In the past five years, when cotton farmers of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Punjab were struggling, Gujarat farmers were making hay, to the tune of Rs 5,000 crore a year. The state’s total yield has increased by 5.6 million bales in the past five years.
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Long yarn
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Unfair ban
What's the secret of Navbharat-151's success?<br> <br> This is designed as a shorter-duration variety (140 days) as against 180 days to facilitate the <i>rabi</i> crop. Because it originates from the best local selections, it suits local conditions well. Besides, this is a long-staple variety and has potential yield of 5,500 kg per hectare. <br>
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Imports, no bother
<b>Can we ever do without imports?</b> <br> <br> A few lakh bales of imports, even if they continue for a long time, should not be a major concern because the percentage of imports to total demand of raw cotton has been consistently low at around 2 per cent only.<br> <br> <b> Will the import duty structure go down or up in the future?</b><br>
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Villages for sale in Vidarbha
"Kidney Sale Centre," proclaims a banner sprawled across a ramshackle bamboo tent at Shingnapur village in Amravati district of Maharashtra. The farmers here are threatening to sell their kidneys. "We have invited the Prime Minister and the President to inaugurate this kidney shop. They should allow us to sell our kidneys. We are all ruined by debt. Many farmers are killing themselves.
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In short
water wars are here: One protestor was killed when police opened fire at a group of farmers demanding release of water from a dam in Amravati district in Maharashtra on February 20, 2006. The farmers
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Confronting agrarian crisis
"WHY else do you think people who barely get enough to eat, who don't even earn Rs.50 a day, have borrowed money to come for this rally?" asked D.P. Vishe, a farmer from Shahpur in Thane district, Maharashtra. "Because this is the only hope we have left. To come together and fight the injustices against farmers."
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Sand mining: Groundwater depletion in Papagani catchment
Illegal and excessive sand mining in the riverbed of the Papagani catchment area in Karnataka has led to the depletion of groundwater levels and environmental degradation in the villages on the banks of the river in both Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.
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Equity, access allocation: Discrimination in an irrigation project
Rising population and over-exploitation of groundwater for irrigation has aggravated conflict among farmers located at the upper reaches and the tail end of the Palkhed canal system of the Upper Godavari project of Maharashtra.
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Equity, access allocation: Conflict in the Bhavani
An increase in population, unplanned expansion in the command area of the river Bhavani in Tamil Nadu and the growing domestic and industrial demand for water have intensified competition among water users in the river basin.
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Contending water uses: Social undercurrents in a water-scarce village
Conditions of water scarcity have been aggravated in Vadali village of Gujarat due to the persisting differences between higher castes, chiefly the ahirs, and those lower in the hierarchy such as the kolis and other dalit castes. Power relations are linked to social and economic hierarchy and the issue of resource inequity must be tackled through policy and advocacy measures.