Harvesting will be completed in 23 fields by February end. In March and April, 350 and 150 polders will be harvested ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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