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Limestone mining in Bhavnagar to ‘impact’ livelihood, wate...
The Khedut Ekta Manch – Gujarat (KEMG), a non-profit farmers’ organization based in Ahmedabad, in a representation to the High Court-appointed committee to study the impact of limestone mining in Bhavnagar district, Gujarat, has that there are “very serious issues" would emerge in the wake of the decision to sanction of mining lease in the area "wi...
How Gujarat govt imposed curbs on livestock export for ‘fearR...
Monday, June 24, 2019 By RK Misra*
Insidious are the ways authorities function, preaching one thing, practicing quite another. Administrative muscle-flexing to suit political goals was on display when the BJP-led Vijay Rupani government in Gujarat banned the export of livestock days ahead of Eid. Even the Narendra Modi-led government expressed ...
Sabarmati River it is “dead”
Sabarmati River in the Ahmedabad city, along the entire River, is dry and within the Riverfront Project stretch, it is brimming with stagnant water. In the last 120 kilometres, before meeting the Arabian Sea, it is “dead” and comprises of just industrial effluent and sewage.
Our joint investigation reports with Gujarat Pollution Control Board, da...
Share the copy of the ReportBullet Train Project, PSS
Paryavaran Suraxa Samiti demand to publish a report on prepared and submitted to you in connection with the visit by the JICA team to Gujarat and Maharashtra in the month of December 2018 and January 2019 respectively in connection with the Bullet Train Project. To: The Managing Director National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited 2nd FL...
Gujarat potato farmers tell PepsiCo : Withdraw court cases uncondition...
CV News/ Friday, May 03, 2019 Gujarat potato farmers sued by PepsiCo have rejected the top multinational corporation’s (MNC’s) announcement that it would withdraw cases against them under certain terms and conditions, asserting that Indian farmers’ seed freedoms are non-negotiable. Talking with media in Ahmedabad, one of the four potato farmers,...
Gujarat CM queried: Where has 24.81 acre feet of water disappeared fro...
CV News/ Monday, April 29, 2019 Releasing month-wise data provided by the Narmada Control Authority (NCA), well-known Gujarat farmers’ rights leader Sagar Rabari, in a letter to chief minister Vijay Rupani has said that, citing low rainfall, the state government has stopped providing irrigation water starting with February 15, even though there ...
PepsiCo warned: Withdraw cases against Gujarat farmers or face dire co...
About 200 farmers’ leaders and activists, in a letter to Dr KV Prabhu, chairperson, Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Authority (PPVFRA), and Dr R C Agrawal, registrar general, PPVFRA, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India, have demanded that PepsiCo immediately withdraw all the legal suits it has slappe...
PepsiCo tells Gujarat potato farmers: Enter into purchase agreement, o...
CV News/ Friday, April 26, 2019The legal suits initiated by PepsiCo India Holdings against four farmers of North Gujarat has been scheduled for hearing on June 12, 2019. This follows a hearing on Friday in the Commercial Court in Ahmedabad, where senior advocate Anandvardhan Yagnik filed his appearance and vakalatnama on behalf of the farmers in th...
Gujarat demanded PepsiCo withdraw legal suits farmers
24th April 2019: Leading farmer unions, farmers’ rights advocacy groups and
eminent citizens of Gujarat demanded that PepsiCo immediately withdraw all the legal suits it has slapped on many potato farmers in different districts of Gujarat. The Indian subsidiary of the US MNC,
namely PepsiCo India Holdings (PIH) Pvt Ltd has filed cases of IPR infr...
Growth of food processing industry in Gujarat
The agricultural and the industrial development of Gujarat are taking place at a faster rate not only due to the keen interest of the State Government but also, due to the progressive and enterprising nature of the people of the State. Agro Industrial Sector has been one of the identified thrust areas in the successive State Industrial Policies.
I...
Dangerously Very High COD levels in village Luna
This is to draw your attention to the findings of reports that we availed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005 on 11.03.2019, to take action in view of Dangerously Very High COD (Chemical Oxygen Demand) levels observed in ground water in village Luna, Padra Taluka, Vadodara District. The levels were determined as an outcome of a joint ...
Gujarat government bravado and “slow death” of agriculture...
Monday, March 18, 2019 By SagarRabari*, Persis Ginwalla**
Why is Gujarat, an otherwise ‘developed’ state, with an agricultural growth rate ostensibly much higher than other states of India, as claimed repeatedly by the Government of Gujarat (GoG), reeling under the anger of farmers? If the GoG’s claims of development are indeed true, then why i...
Agricultural GDP to grow by a mere 2.7% in 2018-19, down from 5% in &#...
CV News/ Saturday, March 02, 2019 Latest estimates suggest that in the third quarter of 2018-19 (October-December), agriculture and allied activities grew at 2.7 per cent as against 4.6 per cent during the same period last year. The situation wouldn’t be any better for the full year in 2018-19, when the growth in agriculture and allied activitie...
The groundnut procurement during the last three years stood at Rs.8,50...
Gujarat now stands number one in groundnut production of 39.36 lakh tonnes, raw cotton 101 bales and milk 135-lakh. The farm products’ worth has increased 12 times from Rs.13,948-crore in 1995-96 to Rs.168,432-crore now. The groundnut procurement during the last three years stood at Rs.8,500-crore, including Rs.2,200-crore in the current year. T...
Facebook page dedicated to farmers’ cause “hacked”, ...
CV News/ Wednesday, February 06, 2019 A Facebook page dedicated to farmer’s issues, problems, and knowledge has allegedly been hacked. The page was created in September 2014 to raise the voice of Gujarat farmers’ issues and problems. Its owner, Sipai Husen, claims, it has received more than 2 lakh likes, and it was growing at rapid rate in short...