CHANDIGARH: Despite attempts by the Agriculture Department to promote maize paddy farmers are showing little keenness in growing the crop The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Gandhinagar, Nov 22 (IANS) Taking a major step towards addressing farmers' financial woes, the Gujarat government has announced the procurement of several crops including paddy, millet ...

NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare will form a team to assess the extent of damages due to floods and rainfall caused to kharif crops, particularly paddy and maize. However, ...

Farmer leader and National spokesperson of the Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) Rakesh Tikait during a BKU protest in Meerut, on Wednesday.(PTI) Farmers' demand for a legal guarantee for Minimum Support ...

Chandigarh: To promote farm diversification and check depleting groundwater, Punjab govt has unveiled a plan to diversify 12,000 hectares of paddy to kharif maize this year. Farmers adopting maize ...

Jalandhar: Congress MLA Rana Gurjeet Singh has urged chief minister Bhagwant Mann to promote Rabi maize, also called monsoon maize, in Punjab amid depleting water table due to water guzzling paddy. He ...

Chandigarh: Weak market rates coupled with poor returns keep Punjab’s farmers from switching to maize even as paddy guzzles water and burning its crop residue gets them the blame every winter for ...

AFEX Commodities Exchange Ltd. has predicted price increase for maize, paddy rice and cocoa as well as sesame and sorghum by the end of 2022. He said while there was a forecast of an average decline ...