We imagine a farm to be a place where people celebrate simplicity and get back to the land, and why not? Most of our food is sold to us that way. But farms are big business, and they’re more high-tech ...

As the samba harvest season nears, paddy farmers in Tiruchi are concerned over the shortage of government-provided harvester machines. With samba paddy cultivation taken up on at least 50,000 hectares ...

A total of 1,164 paddy harvesting machines were available in Tiruvarur district for the farmers to take them on rent to complete the harvesting of the standing paddy crop. Disclosing this in a press ...

THANJAVUR: Farmers who have cultivated samba and thaladi paddy in the district, and are ready to harvest their crop complain that there is a dearth of harvester machines. There is also a days-long ...