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Area under the paddy crop has been down by 5.62 per cent at 383.99 lakh hectare in the ongoing kharif season so far due to poor rains in some states, according to the agriculture ministry data released on Friday. Paddy was sown in 406.89…

Rice output may drop by about 10 million tonnes in 2022-23 to 120 million tonnes because of a fall in the area the cereal is sown during the ongoing kharif season, estimate traders. Paddy sowing in the current kharif season has been 13%…

Prices of all varieties of rice have increased by up to 30% since the beginning June, due to higher demand from Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia and also a shortage in paddy acreage in several states. The costlier staple grain…

Balak Ram Nautiyal (29) left his job at the Jolly Grant airport in 2018, in order to help his ailing parents with farming in Tulyada, a village in the Chinyalisaur block of Uttarkashi district. However, he carries no regrets of making…

Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Saturday said there is a possibility of covering the shortfall in paddy sowing in the ongoing kharif season. As per the agriculture ministry's latest data, area sown to paddy was down…

Amid concerns over paddy sowing in the ongoing kharif season due to poor rains in key growing states, the Union Agriculture Ministry has stopped releasing the weekly update of total area sown to paddy. Not only paddy, the weekly sowing…