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 ...

TNNLudhiana: Additional deputy commissioner (ADC) Rakesh Kumar on Friday directed all combine owners to harvest paddy only with machines equipped with Super SMS machines. He said that only harvesters ...

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 ...

Andhra Pradesh farmers rush to harvest paddy before a cyclone hits. The government is helping with harvesting machines and other resources. Officials are working to finish harvesting in affected areas ...

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 ...

All the 15,000 machines to be distributed this season will be linked to banks for 5 years to ensure they are not lost, ...

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, ...

Dr Jasbir Gill, who is heading the project, said that after the paddy is harvested, wheat seeds are sown with the surface seeder and that paddy straw is mulched and spread over the ground, all-in-one ...

Natural disasters over the last three seasons including flooding due to cyclone Ditwah have led to serious soil-related problems that, if not controlled, could have significant impact on future paddy ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Chennai, Feb 16 (IANS) With the samba and thalady paddy harvest commencing across the Cauvery Delta districts of Tamil Nadu, the administration has ensured that an adequate number of ...