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Monday, July 7, 2014

Dedicated Channel for Farmers Soon: Government

Source: ndtv.com | All India | Press Trust of India
Updated: July 06, 2014 11:57 IST

New Delhi:  Farmers will soon have a 24-hour TV channel dedicated to agriculture and related issues, providing the farming community with information related to aspects like weather forecast and seeds.

To be named 'DD Kisan', the government and the Prasar Bharati are working on finalising the plans for launching the channel at the earliest.

"DD Kisan will come up very soon," Information and Broadcasting minister Prakash Javadekar told PTI when asked about the plans to launch agriculture based channels. The BJP had before the 2014 General Elections declared that if voted to power, it would "explore setting up of regional Kisan TV channels."

Earlier, Prasar Bharati had been.........

Read more at http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/dedicated-channel-for-farmers-soon-government-553724 

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