Lush green paddy fields are a common sight in the rural countryside of Wayanad. But the rice field of Praseed Kumar Thayyil at Kazhambuvayal near Nambikolly stands out drawing visitors in droves ...

In a vast desert on the outskirts of Dubai, Chinese scientists looked across a field of 'drought resistant' rice they had planted in sand and diluted sea-water and realised that a four decade ...

The group of specially abled children sang traditional harvest folk songs of their land, danced, and played in the soil as they ploughed, tilled and planted rice saplings in the paddy field.

A villager shows fish caught in a paddy field at Jiefang Village of Hongshui Township, Qianxi County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Sept. 24, 2020. People are busy harvesting rice and fish ...

“In the beginning, we used to grow red gram but its cultivation came down lately. The agriculture department officials suggested that he cultivate red gram on the bunds of his paddy field.

After the Maha season, they had 240 acre-feet of water left in their tank, and with additional rainfall, they were able to irrigate both paddy and green gram. “We still have 30 acre-feet of water left ...

For instance, a paddy where snakes live is said to be a good paddy. Such a paddy is heavily populated by frogs, which eat insects that harm the crops, but are themselves eaten by snakes.

For centuries, rice has been the heartbeat of Sri Lankan agriculture, with over one million hectares of paddy fields cultivated annually, accounting for 37 per cent of the country’s land use. But as ...

While visiting areas of Kanchipara union in Fulchhari upazila yesterday, this correspondent saw farmers reaping green and half ripe boro paddy in knee to waist deep water in their crop fields.

Paddy growers in Cumbum valley have successfully harvested rice fallow pulses, third crop in a year, thanks to summer rain in the last month. They had raised green gram in lands where they ...

LAND LAW Kerala’s altered conservation law will decimate its paddy fields and wetlands, critics say The legislation makes it easier to reclaim ecologically sensitive land for infrastructure ...

Farmers in the delta districts traditionally cultivate rice fallow pulses like black gram and green gram during January. Rice fallow pulse cultivation is sowing of pulses by broadcasting seeds ...