As for maize and rice, we have contracts with FICA ... which have been parceled out to different farmers. The flood irrigation system is used here; it depends on the natural flow, where the ...

Furrow Irrigation and Raised Bed Planting (FIRB) optimizes water use by channeling water through furrows between raised beds, ...

“Left with no food, it was difficult for us to raise capital for farm inputs, let alone irrigation equipment ... I was allocated a fifth of a hectare whose maize harvest I sold and set aside proceeds ...

At the same time, the construction of agricultural ponds functioned as water reservoirs, enabling controlled flood irrigation and ensuring the continuity of maize cultivation even during the driest ...

Millers say the slowdown in production capacity is a direct result of maize-meal import permits issued by the Ministry of Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development. The millers said ...

See also: Farm flood victims to get business rates relief Tim Russon, who runs a contracting service across Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire, says much of the maize in his area has long ...

Chandigarh: It is not just the paddy that has borne the brunt of rain fury and the subsequent floods in Punjab, but the maize crop awaiting harvest too has suffered damage in some parts of the state.

Fine and compact bed is needed for maize. The land with optimum moisture after rainfall or irrigation is loosened 20-25 cm deep through ploughing or disking 2-3 times, immediately followed by ...

Government, through the Food Reserve Agency (FRA), has embarked on a special exercise called Operation Flood the Market under which it will offload 112,860 tonnes of maize to millers across the ...