Full Coverage: Agriculture

30.08.2006 Besides Vidarbha, the current year has seen a marked increase in the number of farmer suicides in northern Maharashtra too, with the number of deaths in 2006 inching close to the cumulative figure for the past four years

30.08.2006 Suicides by farmers in the west Indian state of Maharashtra have been on the rise despite a relief package announced by the Indian Prime Minister. In northern Maharashtra the number of farmer suicides in 2006 has inched close to the cumulative figure for the past four years.

07.08.2006 People from the states of Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, UP, West Bengal, New Delhi and other parts of India joined farmers from the Narmada valley at Rajghat, near Badwani in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, to protest against the displacement and submergence of villages by the waters of the Narmada dam. Read press release by the Narmada Bachao Andolan.

07.08.2006 Two IIT Madras professors protested the presence of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi at a convention held at the institute's campus. Modi was the chief guest at the inaugural of the Third Convention of the National Alliance for Mission 2007: Every Village A Knowledge Centre, organised by the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, Microsoft and the Nasscom Foundation, among others. Kolkata newspaper The Telegraph reports.

03.08.2006 According to various reports, the 14-hour meeting on Sunday 23 July amongst the G6 -- US, EU, Japan, Brazil, India, Australia -- ministers ended in the early hours of the Monday morning. Ministers did not even get around to discussing NAMA.

02.08.2006 Observers from across the ideological spectrum in India have endorsed the government’s decision to quit the Doha Development Round of the World Trade Organisation, rather than compromise on the issue of agricultural subsides.