Paddy sown in Tiruppur village after 52-year-long gap as water level improves
TIRUPPUR: Paddy cultivation has resumed in Thoravalur after 52 years, as groundwater level improved after the implementation ...
Paddy farming to be revived on Karalakam polder
The Agriculture department will take steps to revive paddy farming on the 70-acre Karalakam paddy polder in Alappuzha municipality.
Farmers, mills at loggerheads over paddy procurement in Kerala’s Kuttanad
Friction between farmers and mills in Kuttanad over discounts for discoloured paddy, impacting procurement and quality in ...
The News Minute9d
Tamil Nadu’s Paddy Paradox: Cauvery delta’s intensive farming drains nutrients
Tamil Nadu’s Cauvery delta has grown rice for millennia but environmental alarm bells warn that the days might be numbered ...
The Sunday Times26d
Whither Sri Lanka’s paddy farmer?
Table 1 is based on the latest published data of the Department of Agriculture. It depicts the poor returns to paddy farming across the country. An acre of paddy during both Yala and Maha seasons ...
The News Minute8d
Tamil Nadu’s Paddy Paradox: Uphill battle for sustainable alternative in Cauvery delta
Tamil Nadu’s Cauvery delta has grown rice for millennia but environmental alarm bells warn that the days might be numbered ...
Only 15% paddy, 9.6% wheat farmers benefit from MSP system, says paper
However, the MSP system also gives farmers a 23.2 per cent income bump from paddy and 9.6 per cent more income from wheat ...
Deccan Chronicle19d
Paddy cultivation rises by five lakh acres in Telangana
Hyderabad: Although there was an increase in paddy cultivation in the rabi season and the ground water levels dipped slightly, the agriculture commission chairman M. Kodanda Reddy has sounded an ...