Rice is cultivated all over the world in fields known as rice paddies and it is one of the most maintenance intensive crops to grow. The rice paddy itself requires a large part of that maintenance.

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India has raised the price at which it will buy the new-season common rice paddy variety from local farmers by 3%, the lowest increase in five years, as New Delhi struggles to manage overflowing ...

* Indian farmers plant paddy rice twice in a year. Summer-sown crop planting starting in June accounts for more than 80% of the total output, which was 135.5 million tons in the 2022/23 crop year.

Thai rice production is expected to drop by 871,000 tonnes of rice paddy, down 3.27% to 25.8 million tonnes, for the 2023-24 harvest season, mainly attributed to the El Niño weather phenomenon ...

Earlier, the rice millers decided not to take paddy from Rythu Bharosa Kendras for custom-milling if the government does not clear their dues and also not change the new bank guarantee norms.

Currently rice farmers across Region Two are facing mounting difficulties as they struggle to harvest and sell their paddy in the midst of a growing crisis.

Paddy is now being shipped to a Hakh facility and another across the river. Hakh is reportedly taking at least 300 truckloads and may surpass that as space opens.

Paddy scientists say saline-alkaline stress has reduced crop productivity by 20 per cent on over one lakh hectares of the total 3.5 lakh hectares that grow paddy in Ballari, Koppal, Raichur and ...