विदर्भात प्रचंड नापिकीमुळे कृषी संकट अधिक गंभीर : विदर्भाच्या शेतकऱ्यांना तात्काळ दिलासा देण्यासाठी शेतकरी मिशनचे प्रमुख किशोर तिवारींचे सरकारला निवेदन दिनांक -१८ ऑक्टोबर २०१५ सप्टेंबरपासुन बेपत्ता झालेल्या पावसाने विदर्भातील खरीप हंगामाच्या पिकांना म्हणावे तसे योगदान दिले नाही, तूर, मूग, उडीद, तिळ आदी पिके शेतकऱ्यांच्या शेतातुन भूईसपाट झाली आहेत सोयाबिन पिकाने...
As part of our Vidarbha Farmers Empowerment Project, Grand Maratha Foundation conducted food and seed distribution function on 15th august 2015. The food grains and seeds were distributed to Farm widows and Farmers from Vidarbha Region. Mr. Kishor Tiwari had distributed the seeds and food grains to the Farm widows...
Nagpur: National crime records bureau (NCRB), for the first time in its 29-year history, has collected and released a data on farmers' suicide in India citing its 'paramount importance'. The data places Maharashtra on top for the highest numbers of farmers' suicides in 2014, followed by Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh...
On 23rd July 2015, Grand Maratha Foundation has donated a Computer to Yeor Municipal School, to enable Computer education and e-learning through Internet. On behalf of Grand Maratha Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. Shelatkar donated one set of Computer with UPS to school officials. (more…)
Grand Maratha foundation arranged the distribution of Seed of Pluses and Cotton to 110 Vidarbha Farm Widows of Pandharkodha Village in Yavatmal on 20th June, 2015. (more…)
While politicians discuss ways to tackle the agrarian crisis in the Maharashtra legislature, farmer suicides continue unabated in Vidarbha. Six more suicides have been reported in just the past 24 hours. With these, the toll in Vidarbha has risen to 38 this month and 826 since the start of the...
The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court on Wednesday asked the Maharashtra government to file an affidavit on its non-implementation of the National Food Security Act, 2013, following a starvation death in Tiroda, Gondiya, district. A division bench comprising Justice Bhushan Gavai and Justice Indu Jain asked the principal...
Today another debt trapped farmer of village Bhadumari in Yavatmal district named Dadarao Agrakar of age 35 killed himself. Thousnds of farmers joined to protest in his village where his two small sons have sent a request letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a message 'Give us our father...
Debt-ridden farmers in suicide-prone Vidarbha, Maharashtra, are peeved at the Maharashtra government’s plan to start counselling programmes, beginning with the ten worst-hit districts. A farmers’ watchdog, Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti (VJAS) has rebuked the state’s public health minister, Deepak Sawant, as being insensitive to the farmer’s suffering and said the...
A record 1,306 farmers committed suicide in Maharashtra during the one-year period of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in office - between May 20, 2014, to May 25, 2015, a farmers' watchdog body said here on Monday. This figure is around 40 percent higher than the same period between May 2013-May...
