While such machines can complete harvesting in a day, farmers still need 10 to 15 days to prepare their fields for sowing pulses in the harvested fields, said P Rajarathnam, a farmer.

This initiative, under the Ministry’s Farm Mechanisation Program is aimed at increasing productivity and efficiency in rice ...

Expressing concern that the forced wait for harvester machines to reap paddy will hit cultivation of rice fallow pulses, they demand introduction of drought- and heat-tolerant varieties of the ...