Crops in 35.41 lakh hectares in Karnataka had been damaged during the Kharif season this year due to failure of rains, the state assembly was informed today.
Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh on Thursday said that country's foodgrain production is estimated to rise by nine per cent to an all-time high of 135.03 million tonnes in the 2016-17 'kharif' (summer sowing) ...