Tag: Uttarakhand
MGNREGS wage rates revised, hikes range between 3-10pc for different states
Centre has notified the revised wages under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment...
Laxmi & Saraswati make their mark on Int’l Women’s Day
Laxmi Bai is a member as well as farmer group representative of Chirayu Women Crop...
SAP hike of only Rs 35 in 5 years and delay in its announcement: Does this indicate end of political lobbying on the part of cane farmers in UP?
Five years and a sugarcane price hike of only Rs 35; price hike announcement awaited...
Free food distribution scheme keeps extreme poverty at bay in India: SBI Ecowrap
The report mentions that free food distribution of cereals during the pandemic starkly...
International Year of Millets kicks in
Being grown in more than 130 countries at present, millets are considered traditional...
Rural Voice NACOF Awards 2022
Union MoS for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Dr Sanjeev Kumar Balyan and...
Farmers to benefit from Horticulture Cluster Development Programme (CDP): Union Agri Min
Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Narendra Singh Tomar has said that...
Farmers getting good Basmati prices, but yield declines due to rain
Although the farmers in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Rajasthan are getting...
Fear of decline in rice production looms large as acreage down by 3.1mn ha and mystery ‘dwarfing’ disease hits in Punjab and Haryana
The paddy acreage during the current Kharif season lags behind that last year by...
Lumpy skin disease outbreak in UP, Punjab, Haryana after Rajasthan, Gujarat worries cattle farmers
Cows have been killed by the infectious lumpy skin disease in large numbers in Gujarat...
Govt should reconsider fixation of FRP for sugarcane, current decision a joke on farmers: RKMS
RKMS says that the FRP is linked to the recovery of sugar and this year, while increasing...
AFFI says apple farmers face widespread indebtedness and pauperization, urges govt for a legally guaranteed MSP
Of an average price of Rs 80 per kg that the consumer pays for apples, the farmer...
Gram Unnati brings climate-compatible agriculture to over 5,000 acres in Uttarakhand; helps save 4,000 litres of water per acre
Gram Unnati worked closely with the local district administration, local maize processors,...
IFAD and Uttarakhand partner to double rural incomes and build climate resilience in the state
Based on the ILSP project's success, REAP will leverage livelihood collectives to...
New trend in wheat procurement; many farmers don’t turn up at public procurement centres despite registration
Farmers would until recently be worried about selling their produce at public procurement...
