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...

The usually neutral Telangana Rashtra Samithi on Tuesday announced that it would boycott the remaining part of the winter session in protest against the government’s refusal to procure paddy fro...

As many as 65,000 below-poverty-line people had sold paddy to the Jharkhand government last year, unusually large quantities in many cases, setting off suspicion that there could be fake BPL cardholde...

Jharkhand will begin paddy procurement from December 15 and all districts have been directed to be prepared with mandatory logistics for a seamless process ...

Still, stubble burning is not that rampant in Bengal as it is in the country’s northern states. ...

The state food and supplies department released a WhatsApp helpline number on Thursday to maintain transparency in paddy procurement process in Bengal. From November 1, the department will buy paddy ...

Devotees in East Midnapore shopping for Lakshmi Puja essentials are facing a low supply of paddy husk, among the most vital items of the ritual, as prolonged rainfall has destroyed over 2.1 lakh hecta...

  Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Sunday launched the paddy procurement across the state from a grain market here. The development came a day after the Centre allowed the paddy ...

Following protests, the Centre has rolled back its decision announced on Thursday to postpone paddy procurement from Punjab and Haryana till October 11. Procurement will now begin on Sunday. The two ...