In a ground-breaking step towards reducing post-harvest losses and increasing farmers' income, IIT Kanpur's Ranjit Singh Rozi Shiksha Kendra has introduced an innovative solar dehydration technique to enhance the value of farm produce.
A farmer, who was harvesting crops in village Dih of Lakhimpur Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh was attacked by a leopard, and killed on the spot.
Delivering his address as Chief Guest at the Inaugural event of Amrut Mahotsav and Alumni Meet of College of Agriculture, University of Agricultural Sciences in Dharwad, he said, “Distress of farmers calls for urgent national attention. Farmers need economic security. We cannot afford in this nation, that is rising and the rise is unstoppable and the rise is as never before, to put concerns of farmers on back burner.''
Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy has ordered a probe after his government faced flak for taking a farmer, arrested in connection with the attack on government officials, to hospital in handcuffs and shackles after he suffered a heart attack.
He said the lab-to-land gap between science and farmers has to be reduced. ''We are continuously making efforts to ensure timely delivery of correct information from scientists to farmers. Krishi Vigyan Kendra is also making many efforts in this direction,'' he added.
A 50-year-old farmer committed suicide in Madhya Pradesh after allegedly facing harassment from the moneylenders. The incident occurred in Nimni…
A farmer and teacher, Rakshyakar Bhoi, in Odisha’s Kalahandi district has claimed that he has grown ‘Miyazaki’, world's most expensive variety of mango, in his orchard.
A 31-year-old Sikh farmer, who died while trying to save an eight-year-old girl in California in 2020, has been bestowed with the Carnegie Hero Award, North America’s highest honor for civilian heroism.
Interacting with beneficiaries of mini and hi-tech dairies of the Animal Husbandry Department through audio conferencing as part of the ‘CM ki Vishesh Charcha’ programme today, the CM said dairy schemes are being run by the state government to enable the small farmers and youth in rural areas to start their own ventures.
The humiliation meted out to farmers by police who treat them as petty criminals even as Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao claims that his government was farmer-friendly drew widespread condemnation from farmers’ organisations and the Opposition Congress.
