As a crop that can be grown on every continent, we have come to rely on it heavily. But there’s a catch. Requiring waterlogged paddy fields to grow, rice is an extraordinarily thirsty crop.

Hyderabad: Paddy crops in more than 8 lakh acres are at risk of withering in Telangana due to acute water shortage in the ongoing Rabi season. A preliminary assessment by the agriculture ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) – After record intake in 2024, Guyana is expecting nine million bags of paddy to be harvested in its first crop of this year, the country’s Agriculture Minister ...

JANGAON : Hundreds of acres of paddy and ... to their fields this season. Banoth Dasur Naik, a farmer from Dharawath tanda, said: “I have had to abandon my dried-up crops for cattle fodder.

The procurement of paddy cultivated in the ‘puncha’ crop season has begun in Alappuzha ... harvesting will be completed in 23 fields by the end of February. In March and April, 350 and ...

TIRUNELVELI/THOOTHUKUDI/TENKASI/KANNIYAKUMARI: Incessant rainfall damaged paddy crops meant for harvest in Tirunelveli district. Moderate to heavy rainfall was also ...

JAKARTA (The Straits Times/ANN): In the heart of Bali, where yellow-green paddy terraces ripple across the landscape like waves, ancient subak rice fields ... with other crops, he added.