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Vidarbha meltdown: bumper crop losses
As winter chill sets in, Vidarbha farmers are beginning to feel the heat of massive losses, besotted as they are by worries over the hungry months ahead.
?It?s the worst crop year I?ve ever seen,? notes farmers? leader Vijay Jawandhia.
Jaideep Hardikar reports.
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He did not wait for the government?s new sop
Shattered by a complete failure of crop this year, and looming debt, the three-acre farmer in Yavatmal, Mahrashtra, followed what tens of other farmers have done in Vidarbha in the past.
Jaideep Hardikar reports.
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From market yard to the police yard
Fertilizer shortages have sparked unrest across large swathes of rural Maharashtra and other States as well. In Washim, every constable and officer is
deployed right within the police compound, distributing fertilizer. P Sainath reports.
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One-man-army greens barren land
This 58-year-old illiterate farm labourer has developed irrigated farming at a hilltop in the Dakshina Kannada
district of Karnataka. His hard work, vision and never-say-die attitude have turned the land around and he now advises visiting
farmers. Shree Padre reports.
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Supreme Court to look into deregulation of GM food imports
Following Gene Campaign's challenge to the government's decision to withdraw all existing regulatory oversight over the import of genetically
engineered foods, the Supreme Court has issued notices to the Centre, writes Suman Sahai.
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