With better distribution of monsoon rainfall over the past fortnight, the sowing of paddy has exceeded the normal area of 40.15 million hectares by 1.78%. Additionally, at 40.87 million hectares ...

The government's move to readjust the floor price of paddy at RM1,500 per metric tonne effective Sunday, has encouraged paddy ...

Direct sowing of paddy, laser levelling and scheduling of irrigation are techniques of energy/irrigation water-saving, not real water-saving. Groundwater can be saved either by shifting the ...

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 ...

India's Rabi crop planting has experienced a 1.5% increase this season, with over 661 lakh hectares under cultivation, ...

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

Nand Kishore Singh of Tariyani village in the Jaunpur district of Uttar Pradesh may sow black gram (urad) this year rather than paddy if the season is dry. “We are dependent on monsoon rains and ...

Sowing of rabi crops, barring paddy, is almost complete, and farmers expect to begin harvesting some early-sown crops in March. The production target has been set at 115 million tonnes (mt ...

Rabi crop sowing in India has reached over 661 lakh hectares as of February 4, 2025, with notable increases in wheat and ...