Only a lowly 41% purchased machinery after failing to secure subsidy for sought-after super seeders to help with paddy stubble management in draw of lots Failing to secure sanctions for the ...

Chandigarh: Among crop residue management (CRM) machines to be given on subsidy by state govt for ongoing paddy season, Super Seeder continues to be the first choice of farmers in Punjab. Launched ...

Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has said that incidents of crop residue burning have reduced by 40-45% in Haryana, 25% in western Uttar Pradesh and 14-15% in Punjab after farmers ...

The Centre approved a Rs 1,151-crore scheme in March to promote stubble management though cutting and spreading it on the field or incorporating it into the soil as opposed to burning. It’s a race ...

Chandigarh: Punjab Agricultural University’s (PAU) recently-developed surface seeder is being touted as a cost-effective and convenient solution to get rid of stubble, buit providing an adequate ...

Chandigarh, Sep 18 (PTI) The Punjab Agriculture department has delivered 7,337 subsidised agro-machines and farm equipment to farmers do far for effective scientific management of paddy residue, a ...

Despite the Supreme Court putting a stop to stubble burning, farmers are still burning crop residue in Punjab and, to a lesser extent, in Haryana but only because solutions are not being easily ...

As the paddy harvesting season approaches, Punjab is ramping up its efforts to combat paddy straw burning. Punjab Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Gurmeet Singh Khudian on Tuesday announced ...

Agriculture Minister OP Dhankar has directed the officers concerned to launch a special drive through demonstration plots to encourage farmers to adopt sowing of wheat through happy seeder machines in ...

Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh): A team from Department of Farmer Welfare and Agriculture Development saw functioning of latest step seed drill machine for sowing basmati paddy in a farm in village Baroda.

Taking cognisance of shortage of farm labourers, Agriculture Department officials on Wednesday demonstrated utility of machine transplanter at its State Seed Farm in Bhavani. The demonstration carried ...