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'Green Revolution' Trapping India's Farmers In Debt : NPR 'Green Revolution' Trapping India's Farmers In Debt The second of a two-part series. Revisiting India's 'Green Revolution' April 13, 2009 India's Farming 'Revolution' Heading For Collapse Morning Edition, April 14...

The contentious issue of suicides by farmers due to indebtedness was debated in the Punjab Assembly today with ruling Shiromani Akali Dal and opposition Congress blaming each other for the peasants plight in the state. More...

Chandigarh, Dec 16 : The Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) has constituted an eight-member Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Committee to study the problems of the agrarian sector in the state. More...

Chandigarh, Dec 16 : The Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) has constituted an eight-member Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Committee to study the problems of the agrarian sector in the state. More...

For Punjab's farmers plagued by heavy debts and low profits, it's the latest tool for empowerment. Cooperative societies, which rent out agricultural equipment and implements, including tractors and laser land levellers, are beginning to find favour among the state's farmers. The initiative is...

For Punjab's farmers plagued by heavy debts and low profits, it's the latest tool for empowerment. More...

Concerned over spate of farmers suicides in Punjab in recent years, the Congress today decided to set up a panel to chalk-out programmes for solution of the prolonged problem hitting the state. More...

By Ravinder Singh Robin Dehriwal (Punjab), Nov.21 (ANI): Overcoming problems like shortage of land or rising costs related to traditional crops, many farmers in Punjab's Dehriwal Village, 35 kilometers of Amritsar, have taken to mushroom cultivation. Mushroom cultivation is known to be a...

Border Security Force (BSF) expects a large-scale smuggling of heroin into India from Afghanistan via Pakistan. The reason, say BSF officers, is the bumper opium crop in that country and huge money being offered by smugglers to Indian farmers, especially rural women, living in border areas. This...

By Ravi Khandelwal Muktsar (Punjab), Oct 30 (ANI): Farmers in Punjab are taking to horse breeding as an alternative source of income. Farmers in south-west Punjab have adopted horse breeding as an allied profession. The fertile soil and green pastures give Punjab a natural advantage to breed...

Majitha (Punjab), Oct 30 (ANI): Ignoring the fact that Punjab is known as the granary of India, Radio Pakistan's 'Punjabi Durbar' programme continues to broadcast the view that Sikh farmers are struggling to obtain proper water and electricity supply. The broadcast that is aired from Lahore...

Chandigarh, Oct 23 (PTI) Farmers in Punjab and Haryana are paying the price for ban on exports of non-basmati rice as rates of this crop have dropped by Rs 200-250 per quintal with exporters More...

Attari (India-Hundreds of acres of fertile land that belong to India but fall outside its fenced border with Pakistan are now being acquired by the Punjab government, but farmers are fuming that they are getting only half the market price. More...

By Jaideep Sarin, Attari (India-Pakistan border), Oct 14 : Hundreds of acres of fertile land that belong to India but fall outside its fenced border with Pakistan are now being acquired by the Punjab government, but farmers are fuming that they are getting only half the market price. More...

Attari (India-Pakistan border), Oct 14 - Hundreds of acres of fertile land that belong to India but fall outside its fenced border with Pakistan are now being acquired by the Punjab government, but farmers are fuming that they are getting only half the market price. More...

Attari (India-Pakistan border), Oct 14 (IANS) Hundreds of acres of fertile land that belong to India but fall outside its fenced border with Pakistan are now being acquired by the Punjab government, but farmers are fuming that they are getting only half the market price. More...

By Sunil Sharma, Chandigarh, Oct 6 : A young generation of farmers in Punjab have got together and formed 'farmers' clubs' in order to diversify their crops, adopt organic farming and have a common marketing strategy for their produce. More...

By Sunil Sharma Chandigarh, Oct 6 (ANI): A young generation of farmers in Punjab have got together and formed 'farmers' clubs' in order to diversify their crops, adopt organic farming and have a common marketing strategy for their produce. The set up of such type of clubs make farmers...

Nakodar (Punjab), Sept 4 (ANI): The progressive farmers in the fertile Doab belt of Punjab are shifting to Baby Corn farming, considering the crop's greater market potential. Baby corn, the tender de-husked young ear of the female inflorescence of maize plant, harvested before fertilization, is...

The Punjab Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal has unveiled a new deal for the State's poor. More...