Connecting Kodavas Organisation organised 'Natipani' in Madikeri. The event aimed to revive paddy farming. It took place in Mutharmudi. Around 150 to 200 people participated. They cultivated a 10-acre ...

BELAGAVI: A silent revolution is on to preserve desi paddy varieties in a little-known village of Gundenatti in Belagavi district. Shankar Hanumant Langati, a small farmer from this sleepy village, is ...

For the fifth consecutive kharif cropping season, A Vijay Kumar from Dhulehole village in Harihar taluk of Central Karnataka, has managed to reduce the amount of water used for growing paddy. Since ...

Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) introduced a tractor-operated mat-type nursery seeder that is fast becoming a farmer’s favourite. Traditionally, raising a mat-type nursery, essential for ...

Mangaluru: The Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), Dakshina Kannada, has initiated scientific field trials of ten traditional rice varieties known for their medicinal and aromatic qualities, to identify those ...

ROURKELA: Programme for cultivation of non-basmati indigenous aromatic and non-aromatic paddy in organic way has been expanded to another 3,000 hectare to cover a total of 8,300 hectare of agriculture ...

Panaji: Farmers in the villages of Camurlim, Mapusa, and Cumbharjua have adopted mechanised paddy transplantation on their khazan lands. With guidance from the directorate of agriculture and support ...