A farmer uses a drum seeder to directly plant rice by pulling the equipment across the field, allowing uniform row seeding, adjustable seeding rates of 40 or 60 kilograms per hectare, and a planting ...

In Bangladesh, rice is cultivated on around 10.5 million hectares of land. The country is now producing about 25 million tons of clean rice to feed her 140 million people. However, the population of ...

Madikeri: The shortage of labourers for agriculture has increased in Kodagu over the last couple of years. To tide over this shortage, farmers have started using drum seeders — a farming tool used to ...

Moving away from the traditional way of planting paddy seedlings after raising nurseries, farmers in some parts of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh are preferring to go in for direct rice seeding, both ...

Trichy: To overcome labour crunch and minimize costs, farmers from the district have started to adopt paddy drum seeders. “As this direct seeding method helps farmers to avoid raising nursery and ...