Agriculture

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:...

Bhubaneswar: A group of Odisha farmers’ outfits staged a ‘chakka jam’ on Thursday to protest against new farm laws implemented by the Union government recently. The farmers, under Navnirman Krushak...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government will procure paddy from farmers with the revised minimum support price (MSP) during this Kharif season. Informing this to the media on Thursday, the Director of...

Bhubaneswar: Kamalakanta Singh, a resident of Badamahisigotha village in Bant block of Bhadrak district, left his job in Gujarat and turned into a farmer to feed his family of nine....

Farmers in a village in Kerala can now avail of interest-free bank loans by mortgaging trees on their land. A brainchild of Kerala Finance Minister Thomas Isaac, the project was...