The New Indian Express

AT a time when the cattle are struggling for fodder across the tribal region round the year, thousands of tonnes of paddy straw were left to rot in different villages of Koraput district. Lack of interest among the farmers to use and store this agro-waste is said to be the main reason behind the dumping.

Financial Express

As the government faces flak from farmer organisations over its failure to ensure minimum support prices (MSPs) for their crops, a section of the farming community in Uttar Pradesh is not complaining as it gets some additional income by taking a third crop in a year. These farmers, who are a part of ITC’s ‘Baareh Mahine Hariyali’ initiative, claim to have doubled their income in past two-three years. Ashish Kumar Singh, 40, of Ghoshuan village in UP’s Chandauli district, has taken up summer moong as an additional crop before paddy, which is the major kharif cereal cultivated in the region. “Earlier, I used to grow paddy in kharif and wheat in rabi. But I am now getting ...