Although poha originated in Maharashtra (the OG dish is called ‘kande pohe’ or poha with onions), variations of this flattened rice are coo...

The West Bengal government has stepped up irrigation to paddy fields, and is restoring the irrigation installations that have become non-fu...

In Purba Bardhaman, once a bastion of the CPI-M, the Trinamool Congress had won 14 of the 16 seats in the last assembly election. In the 20...

Similarly, the potato trade in Gangetic West Bengal is also worried about the availability of labour from the first week of May to unload p...

The BJP plans to launch a two-week programme in West Bengal to reach out to farmers, even as the state’s ruling Trinamool Congress continue...

This variety of rice is primarily cultivated in east Burdwan district - in the southern basin of the Damodar river in the Raina 1, Raina 2 ...

The yield per hectare was lower in traditional varieties, but it was offset by the lower cost of production and the higher price it fetches...

Mamata Banerjee has suggested to the prime minister to waive loans by farmers who cultivated potato and paddy in kharif and rabi seasons.

Eastern states contribute 55 million tonne of rice to the country's total production of 104.32 million tonne and the bulk of it is produced...

The country's eastern region has the tremendous potential to emerge as the country's 'rice bowl', a recent study industry body Assocham sai...

Burdwan, the rice bowl of Bengal, is probably the first district in the country to provide credit facilities through Kisan Credit Cards to ...

Incidentally, the water table is going down by roughly 33 cm every year in Punjab, the cradle of the green revolution in the seventies.

Scientists feel that cultivation of rice, which requires good amount of water could be shifted to eastern states having favourable conditio...

A high kharif paddy production 2011-12 coupled with almost zero exports to Bangladesh has pushed down paddy prices in Bengal.

Paddy production in drought- affected West Bengal is likely to fall by over 16 per cent during the current kharif season to 87 lakh tonnes.

As part of this initiative, use of chemical fertilisers, which was about 15 lakh tonne in 2006-07, is slated to touch 17.41 lakh tonne in 2...

Rice production in West Bengal, from the ‘06 kharif paddy crop, is expected to hit last year’s level of 105 lakh tonne, despite the adverse...