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Vattar DSR: The Simple Soil-Mulch Trick Saving Farmers 2–3 Irrigations
Vattar DSR delayed irrigation by 15-20 days, cut weeds 50%, and lifted yields 22% over unmulched DSR — across 1,208 farmers in UP and Bihar.
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The IndianAgri Desk
5 September 2026 · Reported from IndiaIndia’s agriculture, in focus.
Independent reporting on Indian agriculture — policy and schemes, market prices, crops and the monsoon.
Real farms, real numbers, real people: expert insight credited to the researcher it came from, every statistic traced back to the official release, crop economics costed per acre, and the farmers, women farmers and agripreneurs whose work the numbers are actually about.
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183.57 BCM
Live storage capacity
Combined live-storage capacity at full reservoir level of CWC-monitored reservoirs.
Source: Central Water Commission · 2026
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The monsoon season nears its end as kharif crops mature.
Source: India Meteorological Department / DA&FW
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Today’s figure239.30 MT— Milk productionBasic Animal Husbandry Statistics 2024, DAHD · 2023–24
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Indian farming runs on two main cropping seasons — kharif, sown with the monsoon and harvested in autumn, and rabi, sown in winter and harvested in spring.
Source: Dept. of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare
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