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Homestead farmingThis Madagascar kalanchoe grows hundreds of tiny plantlets along its leaf edges. It thrives with little care in a pot, but it is poisonous to cats and dogs and should be kept out of their reach.
FruitsIn 2022 Saifuddin Hiru of Atgharia planted ten date seeds as a hobby. Three years on his orchard has about 150 Mariam and Ajwa palms, and some are bearing fruit.
FisheriesThe eight districts of Rajshahi division produce about 600,000 tonnes of fish a year. After local demand, some 150,000 tonnes travel alive by truck to Dhaka, Chattogram and other districts.
VegetablesCommerce minister Khandaker Abdul Muktadir says vegetable and onion prices swing with the seasons because nothing keeps supply steady all year. More cold storage and off-season production are the answer, he says.
FisheriesMinister Mohammad Aminur Rashid says sanctuaries are being set up in haors, baors, rivers and even the sea to protect native fish breeding grounds. At a BFRI workshop he urged scientists to bring back lost species.
GalleryCyclone Arnab crossed the Andhra Pradesh coast near Narsapur early on Wednesday. About 6,000 power poles fell in Konaseema, ripening paddy was laid flat across the Godavari belt and fishers cannot go to sea.
CookingNo dosa rice needed: soak red lentils overnight, blend them into a thin batter and fill the dosa with potatoes tempered with mustard seeds and curry leaves.
FlowersBeside the herbal garden of Bangladesh Agricultural University's botanical garden in Mymensingh, the South American climber Combretum rotundifolium is in bloom, its red clusters shaped like a painted monkey's tail.
FisheriesMore than fifty people waded into the Shimulbari stream in Phulbari, Kurigram, with bamboo polo traps. The boal, shol and air they once caught are scarce, and they blame banned China duari nets.
Daily lifeIn Keshabpur, Jashore, hundreds of old-age and disability allowance recipients cannot draw their money because their fingerprints do not match at payment points. The bank says one mobile number used for several accounts is the main cause.
Rooftop farmingWriting in Samakal, lawyer Jesmin Jeba says Dhaka has about 300,000 roofs fit for gardens but gardens on only about 5 percent of its roofs. She wants an official definition, tax rebates and protection for tenants.
AgrotechPM-KUSUM installed about 119,000 stand-alone solar pumps but only 2,400 MW of its 10,000 MW farm solar plant target; CSE says the next phase, with an agrivoltaics component, needs readiness checks, payment security and groundwater safeguards.
AgrotechThe Chinese maker's articulated tractor, unveiled at the CIAME show, pairs a hybrid powertrain with two electric motors on an 800-volt system and a continuously variable transmission.
The Minion Mini retrofit navigates by fisheye vision rather than GNSS or LiDAR, so it works in dust and under canopies, and costs $20,000 to $30,000.
A new MOU, due on 29 October, will support joint work in Japan's four food technology pillars: vertical farming, land-based aquaculture, food machinery and novel foods.
LivestockStudies by Dr Jimena Laporta's group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found cooled calves ate more, needed fewer treatments and later gave more milk.
OrganicThe European Commission's Joint Research Centre says some liquid digestate fractions perform like synthetic fertiliser, as EU nitrogen prices rose another 40 percent between December and April.
CropsThe state found a 17 percent monsoon rainfall deficit, ordered input aid, fodder and drinking water, and asked the Centre for a Rs 20,000 crore relief package.
CropsBetter-than-expected rainfall has improved wheat and small-grain prospects in Australia, Ukraine, China, the US and parts of Europe, a global crop weather assessment finds; southern Russia's dryness and heat in India remain concerns.
AgrotechThe Israeli food tech startup has moved to full-scale production in France and Germany of pea proteins that bind, gel and foam like eggs, as egg prices in Europe stay volatile.
AgrotechThe Californian startup ferments the fungus Neurospora crassa into a protein and fibre ingredient; India is its fourth approved market after the US, Singapore and Canada.
AgrotechMogale Maleke of AB Farms designs water-saving hydroponic units that work where power is unreliable, and advises new growers to start small and find buyers first.
An AgBase report tracked $4.39 billion across 900-plus deals in 17 countries from 2023 to the third quarter of 2025, with India more than three times ahead of Brazil.
CropsA Kyungpook National University review says alternate wetting and drying cuts methane the most, and pairing it with deep urea placement, balanced fertiliser and low-emitting varieties cuts it further.
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VideoRobert and Mary Troy, the fifth generation milking at Newtownshandrum, won the 2026 NDC and Kerrygold Quality Milk Awards with 425 cows, an SCC of 89,000 cells/ml and a herd in the national top 1% for breeding.
VideoIn the latest AgriView episode, agricultural economist Wandile Sihlobo asks whether the enlarged BRICS bloc is opening real markets for South African produce, or mostly producing talk.
VideoAt Bindhara in Panchbibi, Joypurhat, small dark-skinned Black Baby watermelons hang from bamboo trellises. The 60-day crop needs 50 grams of seed a bigha, yields 1,200 to 1,500 fruits or 4 to 4.5 tonnes, and at Tk 30 a kilo earns far more than other field crops.
In pictures
GalleryCyclone Arnab flattens ripening paddy and idles fishers on the Andhra coast1 photosGalleryIn pictures: Dumuria's wholesale vegetable market, from gher-dyke papaya to early beans1 photos
GalleryAn hour of light a day turns cave walls green in Chhattisgarh's Kanger Valley1 photos
GalleryWhy Kashmir's chinar leaves turn red in autumn, and the 'Tree Aadhaar' guarding 28,000 trees1 photos
GalleryGlimpse, 26 October: bees on bean flowers, Kaptai's catch, radishes off to market1 photos
GalleryIbises, lapwings and openbills gather at Bogura's Bhepra beel among aman fields1 photos
GalleryGlimpse, 25 October: vegetables by boat, okra on a gher bank, date palm jaggerySection
AgrotechThe 15,650-square-foot ARS complex will study rainfall, runoff and soil erosion in semi-arid land, using rainfall simulators, drought studies and drones, and turn the results into tools for farmers and ranchers.
EnvironmentOne project restores steppe and dry forest along Algeria's Green Dam; the other pays Mexico for past forest emission cuts and reinvests the money in forests and sustainable cattle ranching.
EnvironmentThe smooth-coated otter of Bengali nursery rhymes has almost disappeared from the country's rivers, beels and haors. Experts blame lost wetland habitat, the false belief that otters empty fish ponds, and killing for their skins.
EnvironmentAs Arnab heads for the Andhra Pradesh coast, several forecast models show a new system that could reach Odisha around 1-2 November, though forecasters say it is far from certain.
EnvironmentAhead of the Antalya summit, CGIAR's Ismahane Elouafi and Todd Rosenstock call for money to follow agrifood's share of emissions and warn that AI could widen gaps for smallholders.
CropsCIMMYT-led research from Zambia and Zimbabwe shows maize lost about 30% in a dry season against 9% for sorghum, while stress-tolerant maize lifted median yields by 42%.
