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Maharashtra’s first smart village centre opens in Pune
March 17, 2025 1:13 am
Launched on March 5 by the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India, the RSVC is expected to benefit over 5,000 farmers from surrounding villages
Maharashtra Budget: Agriculture gets AI boost; Rs 9,710 cr allotted for dept
March 11, 2025 12:41 am
50,000 farmers expected to benefit in Phase 1
India’s suicide problem
July 21, 2015 1:24 pm
Response to the crisis of farmer suicides is narrowly focused. Poor health accounts for most suicides, necessitating improved access to healthcare rather than special packages
Optimising crop insurance
March 30, 2012 1:38 am
World Bank-aided pilot idea uses GPS,cellphones and remote-sensing data to try and overcome problems of existing insurance schemes
Surplus in rice,Assam sets 10 million MT target
February 24, 2012 3:27 am
Fighting odds of floods,small landholdings and depleting agricultural land,state plans to introduce high-yielding,submergence-tolerant paddy varieties,double-cropping
Govt wants to go by rulebook
February 24, 2012 3:26 am
Cites its agricultural marketing rules to deny direct payment to over 13 lakh farmers
Storm brews in food bowl
February 24, 2012 3:24 am
40,000 commission agents on warpath in Punjab against direct pay to farmers.
Catching up with the plains
February 10, 2012 12:09 am
Imported power tillers,mini-tractors to mechanise hill farming in Himachal Pradesh
Onion cheers
February 10, 2012 12:06 am
As govt works on a tie-up,Orissa farmers to directly sell their produce to a supermarket chain
Sowing the way
February 10, 2012 12:04 am
With an alternative market in place,farmers in this Kerala village now risk growing vegetables they did not produce earlier and are reaping benefits
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