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Union minister urges diary farmers to use ayurveda medicines to treat illness in livestocks
•The minister said the dairy sector needs to gear up to meet the growing challenges of providing better quality milk quality without drug residues, as these are issues of growing public concern.
Maharashtra dairy farmers: Subsidy worth Rs 225 crore stuck with govt due to delay in submission of bank details
•The delay in submission of bank account details of dairy farmers in Maharashtra has led to a subsidy worth Rs 225 crore getting stuck at the government level, an official has said.
Research on agrarian distress is inadequate; we need some proper indicator, says Ramesh Chand of NITI Aayog
Seetha •Most researchers are arriving at this conclusion of agrarian distress by citing farmers suicides. We are just using this emotional indicator, says Ramesh Chand of NITI Aayog
No milk supply to any city in Maharashtra from Monday: Farmers demand hiking procurement price of cow milk by Rs 5/litre
Fp Staff •From Sunday midnight onward, farmers' organisations in Maharashtra suspended supply of milk to Mumbai and Pune as part of its agitation demanding a hike of Rs 5 per litre of cow's milk.
Agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh bashes cattle politics, says cows are 'economic engine in rural India'
Ians •Radha Mohan Singh took a potshot at some politicians and businessmen for playing politics over cattle, which he says is "the economic engine in rural India"
Rajasthan dairy farmers sell cow dung cakes on Amazon
Ians •Three young entrepreneurs from Rajasthan's Kota city — othewise known as an education hub — have taken their 15-year-old dairy farming family business to the next level and are now selling cow dung cakes on e-tailing site Amazon.
Meo Muslims seek countrywide ban on cow slaughtering fearing lynch mobs
•Meo Muslims, a community of mainly the dairy farmers, want the cow to be declared as the national animal or a countrywide ban on its slaughtering in the wake of the lynching of a man by cow vigilantes on suspicion of cow smuggling.