ALAPPUZHA: The serene backwaters of Alappuzha and Kuttanad, once known only to local fishermen and farmers, are today a global tourist attraction. With its coconut groves, glittering lakes and lagoons ...

Transforming 59 acres of fallow land into successful paddy cultivation in Chemmaruthy, with community involvement and organic ...

As 18-year-old, he set out to organise farm workers; as octogenarian, he trekked hills over “encroachment” of forest land ...

Why Kerala paddy farmers are having a field day now Measures like assistance for fallow land cultivation, upland cultivation, and conversion of single crop to double crop have increased productivity.

The Kerala Assembly last week passed a bill to make it easier to reclaim paddy fields, wetlands and “unnotified land” for infrastructure development projects. The bill makes 12 amendments and ...

The barely two cents of land in front of it has also been turned to a paddy field. TV Chandran Nair, a retired employee of FACT, burned and cleared his land of 25 cents of land for paddy cultivation.

KANNUR: Kerala has lost huge expanses of paddy fields in the past few decades and we have just around 2.75 lakh hectares of paddy field left in the state compared to over nine lakh hectares thirty ...

Kerala’s ‘Kole’ paddy fields must be used as prawn farms: MPEDA Such an initiative will work effectively in the coastal state that is endowed with water bodies and enjoys high domestic ...

The inmate, a native of Pathanamthitta, who spent five-and-a-half months in the Viyyur jail, has now launched a legal battle to ensure the welfare of the inmates ...

She thus became first ever player from Kerala to be picked in the Indian women’s team. An elated Minnu Mani said those childhood days on the rough paddy field had actually moulded the fearless ...

Wayanad, Kerala: Years ago, there was a girl who yearned to step into the paddy field in her tribal hamlet and play cricket with boys in the neighbourhood till dusk at Choyimoola in this district.