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 subsidised machines provided to farmers, include super-straw management system, happy seeders, super seeders, paddy-straw choppers, reversible ploughs, zero till drill, balers, rakes and shrub ...

NEW DELHI: In early November, as the national capital was gearing up for its annual encounter with toxic smog, Bhupinder Singh, a farmer from Sangrur, Punjab, had to make a swift decision. He had to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...