agriculture

Kochi: Subsidy under Central government’sSub Mission om Agricultural Mechanisation (SMAM) was distributed in the 16th ward of Arakulam village panchayat in Idukki district the other day.Three Sanghams in Pathippally, one in Puthedu one sangh and one in Ashram were given equipment Rs 10 lakh for which the beneficiaries need to pay only Rs 2 lakh …

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Kochi: Planter Jomy Mathew of India has won the 2020 best pepper farmer’s award constituted by the Jakarta-based International Pepper Community (IPC). Malaysia and Vietnam have also been selected for the award. IPC is an inter-governmental organisation of pepper producing countries of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. The …

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Kochi: A decision to end the 15 month old ryots’ strike in the wake of government rolling back the controversial farms laws will be taken on Wednesday. A meeting of top farm leaders met at Singhu near New Delhi today to take a decision on the union Government’s written assurances. The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) …

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Kochi: Crash of cardamom prices has put the growers in Kerala in dire straits, Kerala Congress working chairman P C Thomas has said. The situation is really disturbing and the central and the state governments should come to the aid of the farmers before the situation goes out of control, the former Union Minister said …

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