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Assam’s overall increase in paddy production of 350,000 tonnes has enabled the state to become self-sufficient in rice for the first time in decades. Farmers have begun to sell their high-value ...
The rice fields of South Kamrup in Assam. Image Credit: Bikalp Chamola. ... Irrigation can be of flow type, from surface sources, or from ground water. Lacking the former two, ...
FILE PHOTO: Women plant rice saplings at a paddy field in a village in Nagaon district, in the northeastern state of Assam, India, July 3, 2018.
An Israeli company has developed a drip irrigation system for growing rice to replace the flooded paddies that have supplied the world with rice for generations but cause a surprising level of ...
People play in the mud as they plant rice saplings during National Paddy Day also called Asar Pandra, that marks the commencement of rice crop planting in paddy fields as monsoon season arrives ...
Rice is the staple food for more than half the global population, but its cultivation uses 30-40% of the world’s freshwater and is responsible for 10% of manmade emissions of greenhouse gas ...
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