Madikeri: The shortage of labourers for agriculture has increased in Kodagu over the last couple of years. To tide over this ...

The Ministry of Agriculture yesterday began spraying rice fields in Region Six to address the paddy bug issue, the Department of Public Information (DPI) Submit Subscribe for just 30¢ a day ...

As the morning sun went down on paddy fields in Myanmar's Yangon region on Tuesday, a group of women moved swiftly in ankle-deep muddy water, planting rice seedlings in perfect rows.

In a bid to pay his tribute to the farming community Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Saturday took to levelling of his rice field and transplanting paddy plants alongside other ...

Despite rice being the staple food for more than half of the world's population, its cultivation remains highly ...

On the flipside, detrimental paddy microbes can interact with composting materials applied to rice fields to impair rice growth, notes Hikari Kobayashi, president of Niigata region soil and ...

Flooded paddy fields, essential for traditional rice cultivation, create anaerobic conditions that promote methane-producing bacteria. This, combined with improper residue management practices and ...