-Business Standard A victim of supply chain disruption is food. Even as the world looks towards India to fill the void created by the Russia-Ukraine war, a drop in paddy acreage is threatening to make the matter worse Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine and amid challenges for global food supply, PM Narendra Modi declared that India was capable of "feeding the world". However, instead of feeding the world, the govt soon restricted...
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Trouble in the Rice Bowl of Bengal -Gurvinder Singh
-GaonConnection West Bengal is India's top paddy growing state. Bardhaman region in the state, which is known as the rice bowl of Bengal, has received minus 47% deficient rainfall leading to a drastic reduction in paddy sowing. A Gaon Connection ground report as part of its Paddy Pain series. Kalyanpur (East Bardhaman), West Bengal: Dinonath Ghosh, a farmer for more than four decades believes that this must be the worst paddy farming...
More »Assam: Deficient Rain After Massive Floods add to Worries of Paddy Farmers -Sandipan Talukdar
-Newsclick.in Following the floods in June, Assam has seen periods of rain deficiency in the last two weeks, disrupting the paddy cultivation for farmers in the state. “Bohag Matho Eti Ritu Nohoi Nohoi Bohag Eti Maah Axomiya Jatir Ee Aayush Rekha Gono Jibonor Ee Xaah.” These lines by Bhupen Hazarika indicate that ‘Bohag’ (the starting month of the year), for the people of Assam, especially the farmers, is not merely a month or a season; it...
More »Sowing report: Lowest area under paddy in a decade -Shagun
-Down to Earth Till July 8, rainfall had been deficient in at least eight states Just 7.22 million hectares (mha) have been sown with paddy, according to data released by the Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare July 8, 2022. This is the lowest area sown till the second week of July when compared to the last 10 years. For instance, on July 13, 2012, the area under paddy was 9.67 mha. It...
More »Paddy sowing down by 24%, oilseeds 20% due to less rains in some parts: Govt
-BusinessToday.in Paddy was sown in 95 lakh hectares and oilseeds in 97.56 lakh hectares in the same period of the 2021-22 crop year (July-June). The area under coverage for paddy declined 24 per cent to 72.24 lakh hectares so far in the ongoing Kharif sowing season, while oilseeds acreage is lower by 20 per cent at 77.80 lakh hectares because of delay in the progress of monsoon rains in some parts of...
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