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Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Tuesday found himself in soup over his reported anti-farmer remarks, with the Congress high command condemning the comments.
An Illinois family is sowing support for a White House farmer with a Web site allowing people to nominate and vote for their favorite growers.
Greek farmers have closed an airport on the island of Crete and blocked highways on the mainland with demonstrations demanding higher agricultural subsidies and pensions, and lower fuel taxes.
Farmer Zaw Naing was puzzled as he stared at the brand new, unassembled tilling machine _ equipment not seen in most of Myanmar’s rice belt before the deadly cyclone.Thousands of the tillers, donated by international and private aid donors, have been...
The glossy, big-city world of “Gossip Girls” is far afield of the modest, small-town doings of “Farmer Wants a Wife.”Logic dictates that the ratings gap between the two CW shows _ the highly promoted, buzzed-about “Gossip Girls” and the largely...
On the last night of his life, the farmer walked into his dusty fields, choked down pesticide and waited to die.He owed more than $1,000 to banks and moneylenders and he had told his wife that if the cotton harvest was bad this year, he would kill...
An Amazon farmer who received death threats after reporting illegal logging to authorities was shot to death as he left his house, Brazilian media reported Saturday.Emival Barbosa Machado, 50, was shot three times Friday in the eastern city of Tucurui,...
A court handed a suspended sentence Thursday to the first white farmer convicted of defying an order to vacate his property under Zimbabwe’s campaign to put more land in black hands.A Harare magistrate gave Deon Theron, a vice president of the...
Militant French farmer Jose Bove and about 15 supporters called off their hunger strike in its eighth day after the government ordered the suspension of the use of genetically modified corn Friday.France will suspend cultivation of MON810, the seed for...
