Vallabh Vidyanagar: Farmers in Anand and Kheda districts cultivating summer crops like paddy, millet, and other varieties have received a significant boost as the irrigation department has increased the water flow in the Mahi canals. This move aims to address water scarcity issues in the region and cater to the agricultural and drinking water needs of the local population. The Mahi canals, which draw water from the Panam and Kadana reservoirs via the Wanakbori Weir, supply water to various are...Read More

Surat: Construction of the Mumbai-Vadodara Expressway, passing through the Bardoli, Palsana, and Kamrej talukas of Surat district, has been halted by protesting farmers who claim their access to agricultural fields has been blocked. Some farmers claimed that the expressway construction has reportedly cut off access roads to numerous farms, causing hardship for farmers who need to transport sugarcane, vegetables, and other produce. Despite repeated appeals to the National Highway Authority of I...Read More

Botad, Gujarat – March 7, 2025 – In a successful decoy operation, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of Botad apprehended two individuals, including a contract-based computer operator for the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) and a cotton gin operator, for accepting a bribe of 265 kilograms of cotton, valued at Rs. 19,798. The operation, which culminated on March 6, 2025, targeted alleged corrupt practices at the CCI purchase center located at Kashtbhanjan Cotton and Oil Industries in Gadhd...Read More

Gandhinagar: Non-Agriculture (NA) conversion and related procedures for agricultural land will not be required for the use of agricultural land for fisheries activities. Finance Minister Kanubhai Desai made this announcement today in his budget speech. Desai said the policy decision is taken by the Chief Minister. Desai called this announcement as 'very important’. DeshGujaratRead More

Gandhinagar: In yet another action against corruption, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (A.C.B.) successfully conducted a decoy operation at the APMC Godown in Satlasana, Mehsana district, on January 11, 2025. The operation resulted in the arrest of Kalyanji alias Kalaji Masaji Thakor, who was caught accepting a bribe of ₹4,500. The incident stemmed from irregularities in the procurement of groundnuts at the Minimum Support Price (MSP) at the APMC Godown. Information received by ACB revealed that...Read More

Gandhinagar: The Government of India has started a new initiative of Digital Crop Survey in all the states of the country from the year 2024-25. As part of which, the Digital Crop Survey of the Kharif 2024-25 season in Gujarat was completed on October 25. Now, with the start of the Rabi season, the work of Rabi 2024-25 Digital Crop Survey will be carried out for all the farms in 33 districts of the state. From today, December 15th, a digital crop survey will be conducted for 45 days across th...Read More

Dahod: The local farmers from four villages in Jhalod taluka protested the ongoing survey work to set up an airport. The locals forced to stop the survey procedure, following which the district collector held a meeting of villagers. The district collector cleared the doubts of the locals and said that the airport would come up over only limited size of land, but for that, the survey would be conducted covering around 15 km area around the proposed airport. He said the survey in wider ar...Read More

Amreli: A 'lucky' Wagon R car of a farmer was given Samadhi (burial) in Padarshinga village of Amreli district in the presence of over 1,000 invited guests. The car owner and local farmer-cum-businessman Sanjay Polra believes that he progressed in life after he bought this lucky car. He said he didn't want to sell his lucky car and therefore decided to give it an honorable exit by burying it in the ground with the last rites ceremony as per religious customs. Polra printed invitation cards...Read More

Surat: The Bardoli and Chalthan-based sugar factories in Surat district will not only sell sugar, bagasse, and molasses but also sell power now. Bardoli Sugar has installed a 21 MW power generation plant, while Chalthan Sugar has installed 10 MW and 3 MW plants. Bardoli Sugar is expected to generate power worth Rs. 20 crore, while Chalthan Sugar may generate power worth Rs. 8 crore through these facilities yearly. Bardoli, Chalthan, and Narmada sugar mills will utilize self-generated power...Read More