Agriculture

New Delhi: The Centre extended an olive branch to the Punjab farmers protesting against the three recent farm laws with their ‘Delhi Chalo’ march. Requesting the farmers to move to...

New Delhi: After clashing with the police on being stopped at the Haryana border on Friday morning, thousands of farmers were allowed to enter the capital in the afternoon as...

Karnal: Police used tear gas and water cannons near Karnal town to halt their progress, but that did not deter Punjab and Haryana farmers from continuing their Delhi Chalo march....

Bhubaneswar: Satyanarayan Pradhan, a young farmer from Bishalkhinda village in Odisha's Sambalpur district, inherited 5.5 acres of land from his father. Satyanarayan uses 2.5 acres of upland for growing mangoes,...

Jagatsinghpur: Ashis Mohanty, a 29-year-old youth from Sujanga village in Jagatsinghpur district, has created unique identity for using the Hydroponics (soil-less) method of farming for the first time in Odisha....

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has directed collectors of eight bordering districts to ensure paddy from Chhattisgarh doesn’t enter Odisha for unauthorized purposes. The concerned districts are Bargarh, Sambalpur, Balangir, Kalahandi,...

Bhubaneswar: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday inaugurated ‘Krushak Odisha’, a farmers’ database of the state government, under 5T initiative. The database contains the information about 76 lakh farmers of...

Bhubaneswar: The state government has approved a proposal to repromulgate the ordinance on agricultural produce and livestock marketing to attract private investors in the sector. The Agricultural Produce and Livestock...

Bhubaneswar: Madhab Chandra Barik of Asura village in Odisha's Bhadrak district depends on farming for livelihood. He has 12 acres of agricultural land, where he grows a variety of vegetables...

Bhubaneswar: The National Agriculture Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (Nafed) is planning to invest in Odisha by partnering with farmer-producer organisations (FPOs). Speaking at a webinar titled, ‘Farmer Producer Organisations:...