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 ...

The increase in cost of renting paddy harvesting machines has worried farmers in Yadgir. According to the farmers, the rent for a harvesting machine is ₹2,300 per hour, up from ₹1,800. The machines ...

Harvest season is in full swing across the Haors, or wetlands, of Kishoreganj's Austagram Upazila. The landscape near Shibani Barman’s home in Krishnapur village is a sea of golden paddy. Farmers are ...

Bathinda: Super-seeder has turned out to be one of the most sought-after crop residue management (CRM) machines for wheat sowing during the short window after paddy harvesting. This came to fore in a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hyderabad: The Telangana govt launched the Agricultural Mechanisation Scheme on Friday, providing tractors and paddy-harvesting machines to farmers at.

Adilabad: Farmers in Mancherial and Nirmal districts are facing delays in paddy harvesting due to recent unexpected rains, with those relying on harvesting machines waiting for the soil to dry out ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Chennai, Jan 27 (IANS) Farmers in Tamil Nadu's Delta districts, the state's rice bowl, are grappling with skyrocketing costs for harvesting machines and significant crop damage caused ...