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May 11 2008, AP

On the last night of his life, the farmer walked into his dusty fields, choked down pesticide and waited to die.

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Apr 26 2008 by AP0 Comments

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.

 
 
Mar 27 2008 by AP0 Comments

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.

 
 
Jan 11 2008 by AP0 Comments

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.

 
 
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Jul 19 2007 by Kanika0 Comments

Amitabh Bachchan is a man on a mission. A mission of reconciliation seeking to clear his name, by any means possible. And to this end he has proposed to donate his farmland in Uttar Pradesh to the farmers.

In a letter dated 12th July, he...

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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...
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AMIT, New Delhi
Indian farmers do not cease to commit suicides, as 13 more walk the line of their fallen and dead brethren. Indian agriculture is a story of bloom and then a sudden...
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The commissioner’s court at Faizabad on Friday dismissed a review writ filed by Bollywood mega superstar Amitabh Bachchan in the controversial farming land...
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Melissa, Cincinnati
A farmer who blamed his wife for not providing him with a child has swapped her for a goat with three kids. Three-times-wed Stoil Panayotov struck a deal with another...
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Ivano, Rome
Romanian firefighters were shocked after a farmer was spotted using an unexploded missile as an anvil. The 122mm calibre missile, discovered by the man in his garden...
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Day in Pictures
Salto:

Farmers line the road in their tractors as they protest in Salto, Argentina, Tuesday, May 13, 2008. Argentina’s farmers began their second strike in two months against higher export taxes on soybeans and other grains.