Kerala has lost huge expanses of paddy fields in the past few decades and we have just around 2.75 lakh hectares of paddy field left in the state compared to over nine lakh hectares thirty years ...

People walk beside the terraced lands of paddy fields in Gaoniang Town, Tianzhu County of southwest China's Guizhou Province, Sept. 3, 2019. (Photo: Xinhua) Aerial photo taken on Sept. 3 ...

Though Palakkad district is still considered the traditional rice bowl of Kerala, its paddy fields are vanishing at an alarming rate with farmers taking to other lucrative crops and the real ...

The Kerala Assembly last week passed a bill to make it easier to reclaim paddy fields, wetlands and “unnotified land” for infrastructure development projects. The bill makes 12 amendments and ...

The State government will start paying a royalty of ₹2,000 per hectare to owners of cultivable paddy land from this year as an encouragement to them to retain the fields for paddy cultivation.

PALAKKAD: In many paddy fields in the state ... comprising scientists from the Kerala Agriculture University and Agriculture Department — has started field visits to study the situation.

Kochi: The Kerala High Court on Wednesday restrained district collectors from considering applications for regularisation of paddy or wetlands reclaimed before 2008 in areas where data bank had ...

The Kerala government?s legal cover for paddy farmer, that started off as a menacing jail penalty and land seizure to paddy field divertors, has turned to a tame persuasion game. As the bill goes ...

Paddy farmer Biju Alakkad burst into tears soon after he measured the harvest from his five hectare field in Kainakary gram panchayat in Kerala’s Kuttanad region on March 15. “These are tears ...

An experiment led by the Kerala Agricultural ... only for fertilising paddy but also for sowing seeds in locked paddies. The team experimented in the Chakkankari paddy field at Chakkankari ...