Thirsty crops, tired soil: Vicious loop threatens India’s food and water security
Banerjee added that cultivating water-intensive crops degrades the soil because so much water is added, the air is reduced.
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Rice fields of India host valuable, but disappearing, wild edibles
By Mongabay.com Rice fields across India host a variety of wild, edible plants that Indigenous communities value for their ...
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IAS Officer Turns Farmer, Shows How to Grow Paddy Using Just 25% Water
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 ...
Water pollution hits paddy crops in Karnataka’s ‘rice bowl’
Koppal: Gangavathi is also known as the ‘rice bowl of Karnataka'. However, farmers here in the Tungabhadra catchment area are ...
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Severed head of man found 16 days after discovery of torso in Bengal
The police on Tuesday recovered the severed head of a 29-year-old man from a canal in Duttapukur area of West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, an officer said. The head of Hazrat Laskar was found ...
Harvested paddy destroyed in fire at K’pada village
Kendrapada: A fire destroyed harvested paddy stacked up in a field at Padanapur village in Kendrapada district on Saturday ...
Slow pace for paddy purchase: Doubt over meeting 80 per cent of annual procurement
Achieving the target is important for the Bengal government in the 2024-25 procurement cycle, which started in October and ...
Sunday Observer13 天
The tale of paddy from the days of yore
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 ...