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Reuters 02:52 PM | June 29,2009
The two states are key producers of the crop, accounting for about 15% of the country’s total paddy output
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PTI 04:19 PM | June 22,2009
The state’s electricity board has cut down power supply considerably to the industrial units to ensure eight hours power supply to farm sector for paddy sowing
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PTI 02:31 PM | June 01,2009
What is hitting the farmers hard is the lack of storage space in warehouses to stock the paddy purchased from them
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02:27 PM | November 11,2008
Farmers of the State are being made payment of paddy procured by the government agencies within 48 hours of lifting of paddy
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PTI 04:55 PM | September 22,2008
The Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council had earlier suggested that the MSP be fixed at Rs900 per quintal
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Udit Misra and Sangeeta Singh 12:10 AM | June 26,2008
Both in wheat and paddy, Rs850 per quintal covers the cost of production
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Sanjiv Shankaran, Udit Misra and Bajinder Pal Singh 12:48 AM | June 13,2008
Govt goes against recommendation, fixes purchase price lower at Rs850 a quintal; use of fertilizer rationalized
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Bajinder Pal Singh 12:29 AM | June 13,2008
Most state farmers were unable to plant rice on the first day of the sowing season due to shortage of labourers
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02:18 PM | June 12,2008
The CACP had recommended the paddy MSP at Rs1,000 per quintal for 2008-09 Kharif season
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Thomas Kutty Abraham / Bloomberg 01:19 PM | May 29,2008
State government data show area growing rice has fallen to 276,000ha in 2006 from801,700ha in 1980
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Ho Binh Minh and Apornrath Phoonphongphipat / Reuters 01:43 AM | May 29,2008
News of a bumber crop in Vietnam boosted expectations that the country will end ban on exports of the crop
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Ajayan 10:41 PM | March 19,2008
The farmers blame the labour unions, saying the loss has more to do with their dislike for modernization than with the rains
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Paromita Shastri 12:29 AM | March 15,2008
Planning Commission member Abhijit Sen says there would be pressure on the government to succumb to the various lobbies working for higher prices and imports of food grain
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By Ajayan 11:35 PM | February 15,2008
Harvesting has just begun and the reaping process is fully manual, involving around 25 workers daily
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Jacob P. Koshy 12:28 AM | January 24,2008
Though a host of tests still remain, this will be the largest ever protein boost registered in rice involving Indian varieties
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