A French Jesuit priest Henri de Laulanie first developed the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) method of paddy cultivation for the poor farmers in Madagascar during the 1980's. “In the last two ...

Patna, May 26: The state agriculture department has decided to provide cono weeders to paddy farmers for better yield. For the uninitiated, a cono weeder is a rotary, mechanical hand-weeding machine ...

NEW DELHI: Greaves Cotton Limited, a known engineering company, on Monday launched two new farm equipment products – Mini Power Tiller (7 HP) & Paddy Weeder under its ‘Sampurna Swadheshi’ program.

Taking cognisance of shortage of farm labourers, Agriculture Department officials on Wednesday demonstrated utility of machine transplanter at its State Seed Farm in Bhavani. The demonstration carried ...

The Punjab government is considering introducing over one lakh machines from its own funds for paddy straw management after the centre denied sharing funds to control crop-residue or stubble burning, ...

Manual weeding of farmland can prove to be a herculean task, and even using a double-row weeding machine can be a laborious process. Students of Agnel Institute of Technology and Design, Assagao, have ...