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Coffee exports down 7.5% in Oct-Jan
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Coffee exports were down 7.52 per cent in the first four months of this crop year (October 1, 2011 to January 31, 2012) at 79,021 tonnes compared with 85,455 tonnes in the previous year.
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Milk consumption to rise to 150 mt by 2017: IDA
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Demand for milk in India will rise 29 per cent to 150 million tonnes in the next five years on account of the rising population, an industry body said today.
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Meet on tech to revitalise agriculture
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With output growth continuing to trail demand growth and newer challenges such as land constraints, water shortage and global warming looming large, Indian agriculture needs to be revitalised.
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After all-time high, jasmine prices see a great fall
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The price of jasmine, which had shot up to nearly 1,500 a kg on Sunday, the highest in recent times, started decreasing on Monday, bringing all-round relief.
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KMSS seeks right price for paddy
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Protesting against the "failure" of Food Corporation of India (FCI) to provide appropriate value of paddy to the farmers of the state, Krishak Mukti Sangram Samity ( KMSS) members
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Himachal apple yield looks ruddy again
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Bountiful snowfall in Himachal Pradesh, the country's prominent apple basket, has brought cheer to growers after a season of dismal production.
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Mizo farmers reap benefit from oil palm cultivation
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The Government of Mizoram is increasingly promoting oil palm cultivation in the state with multiple aim of generating jobs, benefiting farmers and attracting edible oil makers
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Millers say action needed as PMEAC chairman C Rangarajan talks sugar decontrol
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The Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council has drawn up a comprehensive road map for sugar decontrol, a blue print that the prime minister's office is expected to push through after the state elections.
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Nabard starts infra lending to diversify
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The National Bank for Agriculture & Rural Development, or Nabard, has started lending directly to infrastructure projects out of its own resources for the first time in 30 years,
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Mizo farmers reap benefit from oil palm cultivation
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The Government of Mizoram is increasingly promoting oil palm cultivation in the state with multiple aim of generating jobs, benefiting farmers and attracting edible oil makers.
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Dalmore Tea Estate reopens after 6 months
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The management of the closed Dalmore Tea Estate at Birpara in the Dooars was reopened today. The estate was closed on 27 September 2011 when the new management allegedly failed to run the tea plantation properly.
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Mamata’s move to protect farmland, for food security
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Going a step ahead of what former land and land reforms reforms minister Abdur Rezzak Mollah had proposed about barring non-farmers from buying farmland, chief minister Mamata Banerjee is considering banning the sale of arable land in the state for any purpose other than agriculture.
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Spices Board to organise 'Sughandha sangamam'
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The Spices Board will organise "Sughandha sangamam", a series of programmes to initiate sustainability in spices development in coordination with agriculture universities
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Tuki worried about opium cultivation in Arunachal
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'Opium cultivation is practised here as it yields profitable income for rural and poor people.Over time, the use of opium has come to be traditionally accepted in indigenous rituals and functions.
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Farmers protest demanding support price for sugarcane
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Hundreds of farmers protested before the collectorate demanding a minimum support price (MSP) of Rs.2,500 for a ton of sugarcane as promised by the AIADMK in its election manifesto.
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Onion rates drop to 10 a kilo at Koyambedu market
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Onion prices have hit a low of 10 a kg at the Koyambedu wholesale market. During the same period last year, onions were priced between 80 and 100 a kg.
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Helping farmers grow organic crops better
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Like hundreds who study bioscience, Vinay completed his BSc in biotechnology and did his post-graduation in bioscience from the University of Mysore.
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State launches vaccination drive to eradicate livestock diseases
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The state government has taken up the task of eradicating livestock diseases in a phased manner with its mass vaccination drive currently underway in Maharashtra.
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Pepsico initiative boosts Bengal potato growers
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While reports of farmers" suicides in West Bengal rattle the new government, there is a silver lining in the commitment of a giant multinational to procure more potatoes from its growers in the state.
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Plea to make Subansiri dam multi-purpose
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Noted dam expert Prof Nayan Sarma has suggested that the Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Power Project (LSHEP) should be converted into a multi-purpose one to allay the fears of the people living in the downstream areas, besides meeting their water requirement for various purposes.
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Innovative Sugarcane farming practice boon for Odisha farmers
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Farmers cultivating Sugarcane in a new innovative method called Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative (SSI)in Nayagarh, Ganjam and Baragada shared their experience in recently concluded State Level Workshop on Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative(SSI)organized by NIRMAN and AgSri in Bhubaneswar.
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Panel formed to ascertain damage to crops
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The state agriculture department will make an assessment of the losses suffered by potato farmers due to unseasonal rain in the past few days.
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Govt decision hits paddy farmers hard
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The state government's decision to do away with middlemen for selling paddy to the rice mills has, ironically enough, hit the farmers hard, many of whom can't sell their produce, the mills being far away from their villages, according to information reaching the Trinamul leadership.
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Nagaland to take up large scale rubber cultivation
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The Land Resources Department of Nagaland intends to take up rubber plantation on a largescale in the state, in view of the vast potential.
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UN accolade for Odisha tribals' green farming
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A decade ago, Ralila Muduli, a tribal woman from Odisha's Koraput district, was struggling to feed her family of six. But then she was introduced to a nature friendly farming system which not only changed her condition but also got her tribe UN recognition.
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