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 ...

One-fourth of Punjab's crop residue management machines are non-functional, raising concerns over the effectiveness of a ...

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 Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) introduced a new low-cost machine for paddy straw incorporation in soil. The ‘Mitter Seeder’ offers an alternative for farmers who prefer soil incorporation of ...

A Deon village farmer has been managing paddy stubble without burning it. He has extensively used Happy Seeder machine for directly sowing wheat seeds into the soil that still has paddy stubble.

While the Delhi government has blamed crop residue burning in neighbouring states for toxic haze over the city, the farmers express helplessness at not having any viable alternative to stubble burning ...

The Agriculture Department in the district is looking forward to broad-basing awareness about the utility of drum seeders in the district, a week after demonstrating its utility at a field in ...