Afrikaner farmer, Theo de Jager, who is also the Executive Board chairperson of Saai – The Southern African Agriculture Initiative, has written a letter to US President Donald Trump. RELATED | FACT CHECK: Trump’s attack on SA Land Expropriation Act The letter comes in response to Trump’s recently executive order last Friday in which he froze US … Read more
The Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) is buying cotton at minimum support price (MSP) in five States as the market prices are low. Lalit Kumar Gupta, the Chairman and Managing Director of the CCI, told The Hindu that it had started the MSP operations for the current season (October to September) and procured 2.25 lakh bales of … Read more
Last Updated:October 29, 2024, 19:35 IST If notices have been issued, they will be withdrawn, the chief minister said. CNN-News18 exclusively accessed revenue records that show that Waqf board’s name was inserted in land records of 44 properties in Vijayapura in the last three weeks Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah. (File pic/PTI) Amid the spiralling controversy … Read more
Last Updated: September 24, 2024, 01:23 IST Leaders from the national to the state level will hold interactions with farmers and farmer leaders. Programmes like chaupals in villages and tiffin meetings with farmer leaders will be organised. Representational image The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is particularly concerned about getting the votes of this section of … Read more
Union minister and Shiv Sena leader Prataprao Jadhav on Saturday claimed his three generations, including himself, never paid farm electricity bills. “I am a farmer. We haven’t paid bills for the last three generations. My grandfather’s (water) pumps are still there. “Neither my grandfather and my father, nor I paid the farm electricity bills,” said … Read more
Actor-politician Kangana Ranaut has found herself at the centre of yet another controversy, this time involving her own party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The 38-year-old MP from Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi district was publicly reprimanded by the BJP leadership after her remarks on the farmers’ protest stirred significant backlash. The party clarified that her comments … Read more
India’s cotton cultivation has declined and will be down by 10% to 12% this season compared with the last one, said Cotton Association of India president Atul S. Ganatra. Mr. Ganatra blamed this on falling crop yields per hectare. While the world average is 800 kg per hectare, it is almost half that in India, … Read more
In the chilly waters of Vancouver Island’s Barkley Sound, gardeners are at work on the sea floor. They are scientists from the University of Victoria (UVic) who are trying to regrow kelp forests, a crucial part of the marine habitat, amid threats from heat waves, climate change and voracious sea urchins. Julia Baum, a UVic … Read more
Maharashtra’s Mahayuti government on Friday presented an eye-popping Rs 612,293 crore (around $73 billion) budget, which is more than Pakistan’s $67.84 billion and Bangladesh’s $68 billion for the fiscal year 2024-25. Deputy chief minister and Nationalist Congress Party leader Ajit Pawar, who also holds the finance portfolio in the state, presented the interim budget in … Read more
SpaceX has retrieved pieces of debris that fell to earth and were found on Saskatchewan farmland in April. Barry Sawchuk made headlines earlier this year when he said a giant piece of space debris had slammed into his field. On Tuesday, SpaceX employees came to his farm near Ituna, Sask., northeast of Regina, to collect the space … Read more
