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

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Paddy scientists say saline-alkaline stress has reduced crop productivity by 20 per cent on over one lakh hectares of the total 3.5 lakh hectares that grow paddy in Ballari, Koppal, Raichur and ...

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

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

Sasthamcotta is the largest freshwater lake in Kerala, and it lies in the middle of hills and in the midst of coconut groves. It is quiet, not well-known, and for those who would like to live in a ...

Achieving the target is important for the Bengal government in the 2024-25 procurement cycle, which started in October and ...