Deqing county, Zhejiang province, is one of the country's largest freshwater pearl production bases. In 2017, Deqing's freshwater pearl farming was added to China's list of vital agricultural heritage due to its unique ways of using traditional practices and knowledge while maintaining the ecosystem. A national conference on agricultural heritage systems was held in the county last month with the …
Integrated farming system and value addition of agro products are the way forward to make agriculture profitable to farmers, said Chintala Govinda Rajulu, former Chairman of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, in Coimbatore on Saturday. Speaking at the inaugural of Uzhave Thalai, a conclave for farmers, organised by the Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Coimbatore, as …
Daily wage earners followed by self-employed persons, unemployed persons and people involved in farming sector were the top categories of people who have killed themselves in 2021, a COVID-19 pandemic year. “Out of total 1,18,979 male suicides, maximum suicides were committed by daily wage earners followed by self-employed persons and unemployed persons,” the report said. A total of 10,881 persons …
ECONOMISTS meeting the Union Finance Minister at routine annual pre-Budget consultations have focussed attention on an aspect that till recently seemed to have no place in India's rapidly expanding horizons - the crisis and stagnation in the agricultural sector. The proximate threat in the farm sector comes from the uneven monsoon precipitation of the last two years, which has raised …
The government on Monday said many states and Union Territories have not provided details of farmer suicides and hence, the national data on the causes of suicide in the farming sector is "untenable" and cannot be published. Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy said as informed by the National Crime Records Bureau, many states and UTs have …
A total of 10,349 people involved in the farming sector, including 5,763 farmers or cultivators, committed suicide in 2018, the National Crime Records Bureau 's report on 'Crime in India-2018' reveals. As per the latest data, of the 10,349 persons, who committed suicide in 2018, 4,586 were agricultural labourers. The number of suicides in the farming sector in 2018 accounted …
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