Only a lowly 41% purchased machinery after failing to secure subsidy for sought-after super seeders to help with paddy stubble management in draw of lots Failing to secure sanctions for the ...

Chandigarh: Among crop residue management (CRM) machines to be given on subsidy by state govt for ongoing paddy season, Super Seeder continues to be the first choice of farmers in Punjab. Launched ...

Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has said that incidents of crop residue burning have reduced by 40-45% in Haryana, 25% in western Uttar Pradesh and 14-15% in Punjab after farmers ...

The subsidised machines provided to farmers, include super-straw management system, happy seeders, super seeders, paddy-straw choppers, reversible ploughs, zero till drill, balers, rakes and shrub ...

But Surjit Singh, 62, who has planted paddy in around eight acres, says, points out that for effective use of the Happy Seeder one needs a tractor between 45-55 hp. “I have a tractor of only 35 hp and ...

A Deon village farmer has been managing paddy stubble without burning it. He has extensively used Happy Seeder machine for directly sowing wheat seeds into the soil that still has paddy stubble.

Karnal (Haryana) November 9 Despite the Supreme Court putting a stop to stubble burning, farmers are still burning crop residue in Punjab, but the practice has been curbed to a large extent in Haryana ...

While the Delhi government has blamed crop residue burning in neighbouring states for toxic haze over the city, the farmers express helplessness at not having any viable alternative to stubble burning ...

CHANDIGARH: Agriculture Minister OP Dhankar has directed the officers concerned to launch a special drive through demonstration plots to encourage farmers to adopt sowing of wheat through happy seeder ...