Kisan Congress Anvesh Reddy wants the government to do justice to farmers who cultivate the normal variety of rice. File | Photo Credit: NAGARA GOPAL Chairman of the Kisan Congress Anvesh Reddy has criticised the opposition parties for their remarks on the government’s decision to offer ₹500 bonus per quintal only for the fine variety … Read more
Kolkata: The harsh summer and heatwave conditions have come as a blessing to the country’s rabi paddy crop, which is being harvested now. Crop quality has improved as the moisture content has gone down naturally, and traders can store the grains longer.As a result, the price of rabi rice, which started to arrive in the … Read more
Irrigation, Food, and Civil Supplies Minister, N Uttam Kumar Reddy inspecting a fair price shop in Huzurnagar in Suryapet district on December 25, 2023. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Irrigation, Food, and Civil Supplies Minister, N Uttam Kumar Reddy criticised the ‘distorted’ policy of the earlier BRS government, which entrusted paddy stocks worth ₹22,000 crore to … Read more
The Kerala High Court building in Ernakulam (file) | Photo Credit: H. VIBHU The Kerala High Court has observed that the credit rating of farmers who effectively sell their paddy to the government under the Paddy Procurement Scheme (PRS) can never be affected as the court has already held that they cannot not be construed to be … Read more
Congress leader V.M. Sudheeran on Wednesday blamed the Kerala government for the death of a paddy farmer at Ambalappuzha earlier this week. K.R. Rajappan, 88, who was reportedly in distress over the inordinate delay in getting payment for the paddy procured from him during the ‘puncha’ (first) crop season, ended his life on Sunday. Inaugurating … Read more
Farmers in India have sown kharif crops across 979.88 lakh hectares so far this year, as against 972.58 lakh hectares in the same period of last year, according to the latest data from the Agriculture Ministry. On a yearly basis, the sowing is around 1 per cent higher. Commodity-wise, paddy sowing is at 328.22 lakh … Read more
Civil Supplies Minister Gangula Kamalakar has requested the Food Corporation of India (FCI) to provide more space, and increase the rack movement without any delay. He said that the Union government must not escape from its responsibility of procuring paddy from farmers. The Minister was talking to the millers from across the State here on … Read more
“Onam is just 60 days away and people can start growing vegetables and flowers to be ready in time for the festival,” says Lisymol J. Vadukkoot, Assistant Director of Agriculture at the State Seed Farm (SSF) in Aluva. The farm has launched a Thiruvonam assorted seedling tray (priced at ₹300), which has 98 cubicles containing the … Read more
“Onam is just 60 days away and people can start growing vegetables and flowers to be ready in time for the festival,” says Lisymol J. Vadukkoot, Assistant Director of Agriculture at the State Seed Farm (SSF) in Aluva. The farm has launched a Thiruvonam assorted seedling tray (priced at ₹300), which has 98 cubicles containing the … Read more
Years ago, there was a girl who yearned to step onto the paddy field in her tribal hamlet and play cricket with boys in the neighbourhood till dusk at Choyimoola in this district. The conservative outlook of the community members, the constant chiding by her mother and the reminders of her gender did not dampen … Read more