"I feel very sad when it comes to write something about farmer's suicides. This text I am writing with very heavy heart. This colossal issue is very close to my heart as my family comes from a farmer's background that's from Bondargaon near Parli Vaidyanath, district Beed. This area of...
"I have been working in the Kotak Bank for the last 4 years and previously I was General Manager in RBI. I was attracted to the cause and efforts of Grand Maratha Foundation and felt the farmers in Maharashtra and elsewhere need support and we need to take care of...
Grand Maratha Educational Aid to the kids of Vidarbha farm widows (For the period of November 2015 to March 2016). Grand Maratha Foundation has been working for the empowerment of widows of Vidarbha and rehabilitation of farmer’s families where bread earner has committed suicide due to agrarian crisis since 2014....
'अधिकाधिकपाण्याची मागणी असणाऱ्या पिकांच्या लागवडीऐवजी कमी पाण्यात भरघोस उत्पादन देणाऱ्या नगदी पिकांकडे काेरडवाहू शेतकऱ्यांना वळवण्याकरिता राज्य सरकारने विशेष अनुदान द्यावे,' अशी शिफारस वसंतराव नाईक शेती स्वावलंबन मिशनने राज्य सरकारला पाठवलेल्या अहवालात केली आहे. विशेषत: ऊस आणि बीटी कॉटन या पिकांऐवजी तेलबियाणे, डाळी, ज्वारी, मका अादी कमी पाण्यात येणाऱ्या पिकांना हे...
Grand Maratha Foundation distributed relief aid on 24/10/2015 to the families of farmers who committed suicide after crop failure due to dry spell and climate change effect in the region. The relief aid was given to: 1.Arjun Watghure of village Savargoan in Yavatmal district in Maharashtra 2.dolsingh pawar of village...
Grand Maratha Foundation distributed relief aid on 23/10/2015 to widows of farmers who committed suicide last week after crop failure due to dry spell and climate change effect in the region. The relief aid was given to: 1. Vithal Madikuntawar of village Pimpri in Yavatmal district of Maharashtra. 2. Kalavatibai...
Nagpur: The state government appointed task force on farm distress has suggested that farmers be given a grant equivalent to 100 days' wages from Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee (NREGA) scheme so as to meet the rising costs of agriculture labour. Kishore Tiwari, director general of the Vasantrao Naik...
NAGPUR: Even as only a handful of villages have been declared drought-hit in Vidarbha, the region's farmers are staring at a major crop failure, says Kishore Tiwari, who now heads the Vasantrao Naik Shetkari Swalamban Mission (VNSSM). Tiwari is the first farm activist to be appointed as VNSSM director, since...
