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Bhubaneswar: In a bid to make the paddy procurement process from registered farmers transparent and well organised, the Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare (FS&CW) department has designated 12 senior officers as in-charge of districts.…

Heaps of harvested paddy were burned to ashes last night after a major fire broke out in the farmyard of Kamundi village in Bhanjanagar area here.

The pachyderms have caused fear and panic again in Khurda as a woman was critically injured while several sacks of paddy were destroyed as wild elephants entered human habitation early today morning.

As the recent torrential rains have hit hard growing paddy saplings in the fields, Odisha Agriculture Minister has assured the rain-hit farmers not to worry as the State Government has enough seeds in store to provide forthwith.

**Baripada (Mayurbhanj)/Bhubaneswar:** Jumbo menace in northern Odisha’s adjoining Mayurbhanj and Keonjhar districts and western Odisha’s Subarnapur district has caused extensive damage to standing crops and property. The marauding…