Banerjee added that cultivating water-intensive crops degrades the soil because so much water is added, the air is reduced.

Koppal: Gangavathi is also known as the ‘rice bowl of Karnataka'. However, farmers here in the Tungabhadra catchment area are ...

Paddy farmers for generations, practised traditional methods of sowing, ploughing, harvesting and preserving indigenous paddy seeds and cultivated on fields free from chemical fertiliser and harmful ...

“We wanted to analyse the long-term, deep data for paddy fields so we could assess the effect of climate change and management on rice crop yield and soil,” he says. The next step was to ...

The study, led by Assistant Professor Rishiram Ramanan and his PhD scholar C Amaneesh from the department's Sustainable ...

Kahan Singh Pannu, a retired IAS officer from Punjab, has developed an innovative technique called Seeding of Rice on Beds (SRB) to combat the state’s critical groundwater depletion. His approach ...

Kendrapada: A fire destroyed harvested paddy stacked up in a field at Padanapur village in Kendrapada district on Saturday ...

KENDRAPARA: Harvested paddy crops worth several lakhs of rupees were reduced to ashes after a fire broke out in an ...

Committee has also suggested real-time crop monitoring, district-level stubble collection centres and biomass incentives for ...

The fields with crops in mature stage and harvest ... Often a few days prior to the harvest festival, farmers here reap their paddy crops, thresh the crops, extract the grains, winnow the grains ...