A 42-year-old farmer was killed after she got trapped in a paddy harvesting machine at Krishnapuram village near Tirupattur town on Tuesday. Police said the deceased, N. Sasi, was a mother of three.

THANJAVUR: Farmers who have cultivated samba and thaladi paddy in the district, and are ready to harvest their crop complain that there is a dearth of harvester machines. There is also a days-long ...

Collector P. Rathinasamy on Wednesday held a tripartite meeting here to determine the rent for private paddy harvesting machines. Representatives of farmers, private harvesting machine owners and ...

Bhadrak: Unregulated mechanisation in agriculture is fast emerging as a serious threat to straw-dependent livelihoods in ...

Harvest season is in full swing across the Haors, or wetlands, of Kishoreganj's Austagram Upazila. The landscape near Shibani Barman’s home in Krishnapur village is a sea of golden paddy. Farmers are ...

TIRUCHY: With samba harvesting having commenced, farmers in the district express concerns over the inadequate number of harvesters with the agricultural engineering department. The department has ...

Bathinda: Super-seeder has turned out to be one of the most sought-after crop residue management (CRM) machines for wheat sowing during the short window after paddy harvesting. This came to fore in a ...

Punjab’s agricultural sector is grappling with an unfolding crisis as the state faces continuous heavy rainfall, which is delaying the maturing and harvesting of the paddy crop. Experts warn that ...

While paddy harvesting in the haor regions of Netrokona has been completed, farmers in the district's non-haor areas are still facing severe difficulties due to equipment shortages, natural disasters, ...

Odisha’s paddy sector has expanded over two decades, with production surging from 4.61 million tonnes in 2000-01 to an ...