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Gurgaon: At just 58, Haryana's early farm count may be low - the lowest, in fact, recorded in the state in six years - but the number by itself doesn't quite reflect the reality.Forty-nine of these recorded fire incidents have taken place since Oct 13, showing crop stubble burning is picking up in the state and will test ground enforcement over the next fortnight. Typically, early Nov is when stubble burning peaks.The district that has reported the most fires, according to data compiled by India ...Read More >
Chandigarh: The success of Punjab's campaign against paddy stubble hinges on farmers' willingness to use in-situ crop residue management (CRM) machinery and industrial tie-ups to use straw as raw material. Meanwhile, innovative solutions -- like applying bio-decomposers to the straw or growing mushrooms with it -- remain on paper.To effectively dispose of 19.32 million tonnes of paddy straw this season, the Punjab govt prepared a Rs 500 crore action plan 2025-26 this year, integrating stricter p ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Oct 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) Farmers in Punjab will get free wheat seeds of Rs 44.40 crore from the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Central government, state BJP General Secretary Anil Sarin said on Friday. "This timely initiative will serve as a lifeline for those preparing for the upcoming rabi season after facing severe crop losses due to floods," he said. Given under the Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY), he said, it would ensure that farmers owning less than five acres would re ...Read More >
Patna: Non-vegetarian dishes have made Bihar's politics spicier on several occasions, and so union minister and senior JD (U) leader Rajiv Ranjan Singh aka Lalan Singh' recent mutton party for party workers and supporters under his Munger constituency was no exception. Lalan Singh listened to problems of common people at Suryagarha in Lakhisarai district of Bihar (part of Munger constituency) to sort them out with local authorities and also threw a mutton party for them, creating a controversy ...Read More >
Chandigarh: To bring in a new industrial policy, Punjab govt has constituted 22 sector-specific committees, which will cover key areas like electric vehicles, renewable energy, food processing, start-ups, and film media.Punjab industries minister Sanjeev Arora said these committees will ensure a structured and collaborative engagement between industry and state govt. Each committee will operate for two years from the date of notification, with the possibility of extension at the govt's discretio ...Read More >
Chandigarh, June 9 (SocialNews.XYZ) Urging people of Ludhiana West to vote for "Viksit Bharat, Viksit Punjab, Viksit Ludhiana, Viksit West", Union Minister of State Ravneet Singh Bittu said on Sunday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "love for Punjab can be gauged from the fact that even as he lost the election from Ludhiana, he was made the Union Minister". "The only aim of the BJP government at the Centre is to develop the entire nation. For Punjab, a beginning in this direction can be made ...Read More >
Chandigarh: Union agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday exhorted the farmers of Punjab to adopt diversification and various water saving methods which, he held, are the need of the hour and the same yield profit as well as consume less water. In Punjab on a day's visit under the Centre's ''viksit krishi sankalp abhiyan'', Chouhan, who was accompanied by the state agriculture minister Gurmeet Singh Khuddian, Punjab Agricultural University vice-chancellor Satbir Singh Gosal and s ...Read More >
CHANDIGARH: Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare and Rural Development Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that as the Indus Waters Treaty has been put in abeyance, efforts will be made to ensure that more water reaches farmers in Punjab, Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan. He said that 80 per cent of water from the Indus river system was flowing into Pakistan. "Giving 80 per cent water to Pakistan at that time was not justified. Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan require ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jan 13 (PTI) The Supreme Court would hear a matter related to the health of farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal, who is on an indefinite fast pressing for demands, and other pleas on January 15. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh would hear a plea filed on behalf of Dallewal for a direction to the Central government for implementing a proposal, including a legal guarantee of MSP on crops, made to the protesting farmers in 2021 after the farm laws were repealed. The ...Read More >
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