CHENNAI: With the private players showing reluctance to establish integrated modern rice mills equipped with drying and storage facilities, the state government has extended the contract period for ...

Delta farmers’ associations have stressed the importance of equipping all the direct purchase centres (DPC) with paddy dryers to ensure procurement of paddy complying with the moisture content rule.

Seeking to bring about a paradigm shift in the government's paddy procurement system, the state government is all set to rope in private players to process paddy procured by the civil supplies ...

Paddy harvesting Sri Lanka is now done mostly by mechanical harvesters. This is done before the grains are well dried to reduce shattering losses. Moisture content of machine harvested paddy is ...

Farmers in Thanjavur district have suggested that their tractor-trailers be deployed for transportation of paddy bags from the Direct Purchase Centres (DPCs) to storage points or hulling units to ...

Trichy: With the Centre rejecting Tamil Nadu's request to relax the moisture limit for rain-affected paddy, farmers in the Cauvery delta have urged the state to install modern electric paddy dryers at ...