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• Uttar Pradesh farmers to sell sugarcane in other states

  
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  Lucknow, Nov 27 (IANS) Sugarcane farmers in Uttar Pradesh will sell their produce to sugar mills in Uttarakhand and Haryana if the state government did not raise the advised price to Rs.215 per quintal from the current Rs.165-Rs.170, a farmers’ body said Friday.The Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) convened a meeting of ...
  23 hours ago

• Chhattisgarh seeks higher support price for paddy

  
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  Raipur, Nov 24 (IANS) Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh Tuesday asked the central government to raise the minimum support price (MSP) for paddy to Rs.1,400 per quintal from the present Rs.950 per quintal.“The MSP for paddy for the current fiscal should be increased to Rs.1,400 per quintal from the current ...
  3 days ago

• Explosives seized in Chhattisgarh

  
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  Bastar (Chhattisgarh), Nov 23 (ANI): Security forces have seized a large cache of explosives in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh. Acting on a tip-off, the police raided a temporary camp in the Bastanar area, and reportedly seized a quintal of explosives, besides other material.“A team of Jagdalpur and Dantewada ...
  5 days ago

• Uttar Pradesh to continue ban on import of raw sugar

  
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  Lucknow, Nov 22 (IANS) Reaching out to sugarcane farmers in the state, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has decided to continue the ban on import of raw sugar till the sugarcane crushing in mills in the state is over, an official said Sunday.The chief minister has also decided to convene a meeting to raise the ...
  5 days ago

• Government playing sugarcane politics: Mayawati

  
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  Lucknow, Nov 21 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati has accused the central government of “deliberately delaying” the decision to withdraw the ordinance on sugarcane pricing in order to gain politicalmileage.In a statement issued on her behalf, BSP state president ...
  1 week ago

• Lok Sabha adjourned over sugarcane prices (Lead)

  
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  New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) The Lok Sabha was adjourned until noon Friday after opposition members disrupted the proceedings demanding a better deal for sugarcane farmers.As soon as the house assembled at 11 a.m., opposition MPs mainly of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) walked towards Speaker Meira Kumar shouting ...
  1 week ago

• Sugarcane pricing not discussed at cabinet meeting: Soni

  
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  New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) The cabinet meeting Thursday did not discuss the government’s sugarcane pricing policy, which has come under attack from opposition parties and farmers.Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni, asked by reporters after the cabinet meeting that was chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan ...
  1 week ago

• BJP slams Government’s new sugarcane pricing, procurement policy

  
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  New Delhi, Nov 19(ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday supported the protesting sugarcane farmers of Uttar Pradesh in their agitation against new sugarcane pricing and procurement policy of the Union Government.The protest held under the aegis of regional party, Rashtriya Lok Dal led by former Union ...
  1 week ago

• Farmers vandalise sugar mill offices over sugarcane pricing

  
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  Lucknow, Nov 19 (IANS) Agitated over the government’s sugarcane pricing policy, several groups of farmers Thursday resorted to arson and vandalism at sugar mill offices in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar district, police said.Irate farmers barged into offices of sugar mills in Sisauli, Tetana, Bhaurakala and other ...
  1 week ago

• DMK opposes sugarcane pricing ordinance

  
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  New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), a key partner in the ruling Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) coalition, Thursday opposed the government’s decision to fix sugarcane price at Rs.129.85 a quintal for the 2009-10 crushing season.Congress MP from Uttar Pradesh Jagadambika Pal, ...
  1 week ago

• Chhattisgarh farmers call for shutdown

  
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  Raipur, Nov 19 (IANS) Farmers in Chhattisgarh Thursday called a statewide shutdown Nov 25, accusing the state’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of not living up to its pre-election promise of a bonus of Rs.270 per quintal of paddy it procured.Sanjukat Kisan Morcha, an umbrella organisation of various farmers’ ...
  1 week ago

• Farmers congregate in Delhi to stall winter session of Parliament

  
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  New Delhi, Nov 19 (ANI): Farmers from all parts of the country have begun congregating in the national capital in an attempt to stall proceedings in the winter session of parliament in protest against high sugarcane prices.The opposition BJP moved an adjournment motion in both houses on Thursday to highlight the ...
  1 week ago

• Farmers gather in New Delhi to protest sugarcane prices

  
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  New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) Holding sugarcane stems and shouting slogans, hordes of farmers from Uttar Pradesh arrived in Delhi Thursday to voice their protest against the new sugarcane pricing policy announced by the central and state governments.The farmers rally, including protesters from the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), ...
  1 week ago

• CPI (M) slams Govt for bringing sugarcane ordinance on the eve of new Parliament session

  
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  New Delhi, Nov. 18 (ANI): CPI (M) Politburo member Sitaram Yechury on Wednesday questioned the UPA Government’s intention on bringing the ordinance on sugarcane pricing on the eve of the Winter Session of the Parliament.“The fact of the matter is that the ordinance that the government has brought, has also brought ...
  1 week ago

• Yechury criticises Banerjee for frequent rail accidents

  
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  New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) politburo member Sitaram Yechury Wednesday criticised Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee for failing to ensure safety of train passengers.Referring to the recent major rail accidents, Yechury said the railway minister was “sitting on other agenda” - a ...
  1 week ago

• U.P. sugarcane farmers protest in New Delhi

  
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  New Delhi, Nov.16 (ANI): Finding themselves trapped in Central government’s Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) and the Uttar Pradesh State government’s State Advised Price (SAP) mechanism, Sugarcane farmers from U.P. staged a protest in the capital on Monday.Agitated farmers of the state, which produces half of ...
  1 week ago

• Samajwadi Party activists court arrest over sugarcane pricing

  
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  Lucknow, Nov 16 (IANS) Over 2,000 Samajwadi Party activists Monday courted arrest in several parts of Uttar Pradesh and clashed with the police while protesting against the sugarcane purchase policy of the central and state governments.Samajwadi Party functionaries, including MLAs and MPs, took to the streets in ...
  1 week ago

• Chhattisgarh town tense as farmers’ protest turns violent

  
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  Raipur, Nov 9 (IANS) The situation in Chhattisgarh’s Dhamtari district was tense after a protest of farmers turned violent and they set fire to vehicles and ransacked shops, police said.Dozens of farmers blocked the national highway connecting state capital Raipur to Jagdalpur, the Bastar region headquarters. They ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mayawati urges centre to resolve sugarcane farmers’s woes

  
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  Lucknow, Nov 9 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Monday urged the central government to resolve the woes of the state’s 4.9 million sugarcane farmers, who are staging demonstrations in many parts of the state for higher prices.Addressing a press conference on her behalf, Cabinet Secretary Shashank Shekhar ...
  2 weeks ago

• Samajwadi Party demands higher price for sugarcane farmers

  
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  Lucknow, Nov 9 (IANS) Samajwadi Party (SP) president Mulayam Singh Yadav would lead a demonstration here Nov 15 to protest what he termed as “unfair” State Advised Price (SAP) fixed by the Mayawati government for sugarcane.“The price fixed by the state was lower than the input cost of the farmer,” he said. ...
  2 weeks ago

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