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    Indian police fire tear gas in clash with farmers on Republic Day

    26 Jan 2021

    Around half of India’s population works in agriculture, and unrest among the estimated 150 million land-owning farmers represents one of the biggest challenges to the authority of Prime Minister Narendra Modi since he came to power in 2014.

    Farmers back at protest camp after deep challenge to PM Modi

    27 Jan 2021

    The protests demanding the repeal of new agricultural laws have grown into a rebellion that is rattling Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. On Tuesday, more than 10,000 tractors and thousands more people on foot or horseback tried to advance into the capital,

    Panic buying, lockdowns may drive world food inflation, warns FAO

    22 Mar 2020

    Lockdowns and panic food buying due to the coronavirus pandemic could ignite world food inflation even though there are ample supplies of staple grains and oilseeds in key exporting nations, a senior economist at FAO and agricultural analysts said.

    All set for multi-cornered election in Punjab, voting begins

    20 Feb 2022

    The hot seats comprise Amritsar (East) from where Congress state unit chief Navjot Sidhu is in the race to retain it and Dhuri from where AAP's chief ministerial face Bhagwant Mann is trying his luck for the first time.

    Abu Dhabi opens new farmers market at Mina Zayed

    06 Mar 2023

    Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (ADAFSA) opens a new farmers’ market at Zayed Port in Abu Dhabi to serve as a platform for wholesalers,

    Australia offers drought ravaged farmers $688.10m in cheap loans

    07 Nov 2019

    Australia will offer farmers hurt by drought up to A$1 billion ($688.10 million) in cheap loans, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Thursday, as the government seeks to curb rising discontent from rural voters.

    France raises estimates for wheat stocks, still at five-year low

    11 Jul 2019

    Farming agency FranceAgriMer raised its estimate of French soft wheat stocks at the end of the 2018-19 season last month but the volume was still a five-year low for the European Union’s biggest wheat producer.

    Egypt buys 2.7mt of local wheat

    02 Jun 2019

    Egypt, the world’s largest wheat importer has bought 2.7 million tonnes (mt) of wheat from its farmers so far this season, the state-owned newspaper said. Egypt has said it aims to procure 3.6 million tonnes

    ADB cuts India’s GDP forecast

    19 Jul 2019

    The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Thursday revised downwards its outlook for India’s GDP growth for the financial year 2019-20 to 7 per cent from its previous forecast of 7.2 per cent due to shortfall in the previous fiscal.

    Transforming farmers into entrepreneurs

    02 Oct 2020

    After retirement from the army, my father took up farming at Village Shahpur, on the Pinjore-Nalagarh Road, in Haryana. After every wheat harvest, my mother used to cart the wheat herself on the tractor to the Chandigarh mandi.

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