Sunday lessons for a group of school students in Cooch Behar, some 700km away from Calcutta, were all about dragging their feet along the soggy fields, getting their hands muddy to sow paddy and learn...

Bihar is staring at a bad drought and failure of the all-important paddy crop this year. July, considered the most important month for paddy transplantation, is about to get over, but just over 3...

Paddy Upton has joined the India squad in the West Indies as mental conditioning coach in the build-up to the T20 World Cup in Australia later this year. Upton, 53, who is based in Johannesburg, confi...

Kharif paddy sowing in key Bengal districts failed to get a shot in the arm although the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) started releasing water on Friday to alleviate a shortfall caused by insubstan...

Lack of rainfall in the agriculture-rich districts of Bengal has halted sowing of paddy, leaving lakhs of rural workers in trouble at a time the state government had to press a pause button on the 100...

The problems in the paddy procurement system in Bengal tumbled out in the open at an administrative review meeting chaired by the chief minister in Bankura on Tuesday when she took up farmers’ c...

The state food, civil supplies and consumers affairs department has extended paddy procurement for kharif crops for the 2021-22 season till April 15 after failing to meet its procurement target. Stat...

The police and the administration of Malda district have busted a racket where members illegally selling paddy brought from the neighbouring state of Bihar to the Bengal government.  Hence, genui...

Bihar has decided to procure parboiled rice instead of raw rice from this year, at a time the Centre has contentiously stopped buying the parboiled variety from Odisha and Telangana citing lack of dem...

Jharkhand, which is plagued by a shortage of rice mills, has for the first time decided to take a loan from two public sector banks to procure paddy from farmers at minimum support price (MSP). The H...