Mysore/Mysuru: GSSS Institute of Engineering and Technology for Women (GSSSIETW), Mysuru, has developed a portal http://www.farmrida.com/ to support the Agriculture Department Resource Managers, policy-makers, scientists and farmers with readily available information for decision support in the field of agriculture. The portal reflects agriculture information and for decision support related to Nanjangud Taluk, Mysuru district. The…
Farmers to take out parade in Bengaluru on Jan. 26
January 23, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Farmer leader Kodihalli Chandrashekar said that farmers will take out a parade in Bengaluru on Jan.26 in support of agitating Farmer Unions who have declared that a Tractor Parade will be taken out in New Delhi on Republic Day. Farmers Unions are on an indefinite stir at Delhi borders for nearly two months seeking…
Farmers with weak mind commit suicide: Agri Minister B.C. Patil
January 20, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Agriculture Minister B.C. Patil has said farmers with weak mind will commit suicide and diversion of their mind will prevent them from taking such an extreme step. Talking to reporters here on Tuesday, he said that the need of the hour was to create self-confidence in farmers than going to houses of dead farmers…
Farmers must fix rate for agricultural produces: Minister
January 19, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Agriculture Minister B.C. Patil today wanted farmers themselves to process agricultural produces and fix rate for the same. He was speaking after inaugurating the ongoing farmers’ training programme under Prime Minister Formalisation of Micro Food Processing Enterprises (PM FME) in association with Department of Agriculture, Government of Karnataka and CSIR-CFTRI, at CFTRI premises here…
Minister B.C. Patil’s comment on farmer suicides stirs up a hornet’s nest
December 4, 2020Ponnampet: Farmer leaders and politicians have demanded an apology from State Agriculture Minister B.C. Patil who said, “Farmers who commit suicide are cowards.” Speaking at a function at Ponnampet Forestry College yesterday, Patil said, “I met a woman who was wearing gold jewels and I questioned her about it. And she said, ‘These jewels are…
Farmers stage protest against RTO officials
November 5, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Upset over the action of RTO officials, who had seized a couple of vegetable lorries for alleged violation of traffic norms, farmers under the banner of KRRS and Hasiru Sene, staged a demonstration in front of the RTO (West) Office in Chamarajapuram here recently. Accusing the RTO officials of heavily penalising the vegetable lorry…
Land lost farmers stage snap stir
November 3, 2020Demand jobs for kin in factory Mysore/Mysuru: Land lost farmers of Immavu village staged a dharna at the park near the Office of the Deputy Commissioner this morning demanding jobs for their kin in a paint factory. They accused the factory management at Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board (KIADB) of not keeping up their promise…
Farmers to take out ‘Delhi Chalo’
November 3, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Urging the Centre to withdraw Farm Bills, which they claimed were anti-farmer, thousands of farmers from across the country and the State, under the banner of Akhila Bharata Raitha Sangharsha Samanvaya Samiti, will take out a ‘Delhi Chalo’ stir on Nov. 26 and 27. Announcing this at a press meet at Jaladarshini Guest House…
Farmers stage stir demanding higher price for sugarcane
November 2, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Maintaining that the FRP (Fair and Remunerative Price) announced by the Government was unscientific as it does not correspond with the current production costs, farmers under the banner of Karnataka Sugarcane Growers Association staged a demonstration in front of the Deputy Commissioner’s Office here this morning demanding higher FRP. Alleging that sugar factories were…
Highway Blockade: Police take protesting farmers into custody
September 25, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Vehicular movement on the ever-busy Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway was disrupted for a few minutes this morning as farmers under the banner of Raitha-Dalita-Karmika Aikya Horata Samiti and a host of other farmer, labour and social organisations blocked the highway by forming a human chain at Columbia Asia Hospital junction as part of their ‘State and…
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