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A Vadodara start-up part-owned by Nabard has onboarded more than 300,000 Kisan Credit Card applications through cooperative banks and regional rural banks since December 2025, replacing paper forms and three-to-four-week waits with Aadhaar checks, land-record validation and crop-based loan limits.
Government buffer stocks of pulses have reached a record 4.5 million tonnes against a 3.5 million-tonne norm, with chana, tur, moong and lentils to be released in a calibrated way if the rain-short kharif crop or the coming rabi season falls short.
LivestockICBF milk-recording data for 8–18 September show 1,128 herds and 123,544 cows recorded, with an average yield of 19.16 kg at 4.61 per cent fat and 3.86 per cent protein and a somatic cell count of 187,000 cells/ml that has been rising for weeks.
A few minutes with a pair of clippers at swathing time can tell Prairie canola growers which blackleg race and whether verticillium stripe is in their fields, and steer next year's variety choice, extension staff told a disease workshop in Saskatchewan.
LivestockAbri Lock's Red Rock Santas, run with his father's Locklore and his cousin's JADUP herds near Schweizer-Reneke, put fertility ahead of size: a foundation cow has produced nine calves at a 361-day intercalving period, and the combined 600-cow herd weans about 85 per cent under continuous mating.
CropsHundreds queued at dealer points in Kurigram Sadar on Sunday and briefly blocked roads over short allocations and alleged irregularities; the DAE says the district holds about 1,000 tonnes of urea above demand.
FisheriesThe Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock and ICCCAD have signed an MoU to build climate capacity in the sector and to pursue Green Climate Fund and other international financing.
FisheriesThe FB Nazma of Patharghata netted about 95 maunds (3.5 tonnes) of hilsa in one cast in the deep Bay of Bengal, the first haul of its size this season, fetching around Tk 3 million.
LivestockA North Carolina State University team has built an Excel-based calculator, funded by the US Poultry & Egg Association, that estimates the propane, steam, carbon dioxide or nitrogen a poultry house needs when a flock has to be depopulated after a highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak.
CropsIndian farmers can choose from about 380 pesticide active ingredients against some 1,200 available worldwide, and the industry body says restricting existing molecules without letting better ones in would be a double blow; it wants science-based curbs and five years of regulatory data protection.
FisheriesDepartment of Fisheries yearbook data put the Lower Padma hilsa catch at 622 tonnes in 2024-25, against 1,159 tonnes in 2020-21; fishermen in Daulatpur, Shibalay and Harirampur are turning to farming and rickshaws.
CropsHarvesting and threshing are in full swing in Sadar, Lohagara and Kalia upazilas; the Department of Agricultural Extension expects a bumper crop if the weather holds, with free government incentives drawing more farmers to aus each year.
CropsIn Baishari union of Naikhongchhari, 45-50 kani of rice sown from packets labelled "Ranjit Paijam" set panicles 10-15 days after planting; farmers want the seed tested and compensation, while the seed company blames their methods.
FisheriesA 33 kg baghair catfish caught by fisherman Seken Halder at the Padma-Jamuna confluence was auctioned at the Daulatdia fish market for Tk 72,600 and resold to a Dhaka trader for Tk 79,200.
A UKZN–Rhodes University study on a commercial farm near Pietermaritzburg measured a hemp crop using 377 mm of water over a four-month season, about 28 litres a day per plant area, with weeds between the rows taking a large share.
CropsMaizetech's Robert Duncan says a significant acreage of forage maize will be cut in Northern Ireland in the last days of September, fully mature, and explains the cob and kernel checks that show when a crop has passed 30 per cent dry matter.
Seven of ten young-cattle weight categories lost value in AuctionsPlus online trading on Friday, heifers most of all, while listings rose 6 per cent to 18,616 head and clearance fell 34 percentage points to 54 per cent.
With fodder and cash flow tight on Irish dairy farms after the drought, a new Teagasc guide sets out the energy, crude protein and fibre of forages and concentrates, from grazed grass and red clover silage to fodder beet, brewers grains, beet pulp and palm kernel.
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Jamie and Nicky Gaddum's 865ha Matangi operation now sells grass-fed Angus beef and chicory-finished lamb through its own butchery, uses drones and precision fertiliser, plants 3,000 native seedlings a year and was named 2026 Ballance Farm Environment Awards East Coast Supreme Champion.
FisheriesThe government has nominated the Halda — Asia's only tidal natural carp spawning river — for UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere programme, with the 2,709-hectare Hazarikhil sanctuary as core zone and a 10,588-hectare buffer along the banks.
Soil-moisture maps are changing week to week as high-pressure zones over Australia and the Tasman link up: Southland stays windy, cold and wet while Northland and eastern areas from Northland to Canterbury look at just 5-30mm of rain through to 2 October.
The Central Otago Wilding Pines Group says relying on foresters' goodwill to stop seed spreading beyond their boundaries has failed, as MPI consults on a 20-year strategy that warns unmanaged infestations could cover a quarter of New Zealand within 30 years and cost at least $4.6 billion over 50.
Salk Institute scientists, backed by an $18 million Bezos Earth Fund grant, are testing gene-edited soybeans with roots that grow straight down at sites in Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and Iowa, hoping they can reach water in droughts and store an extra tonne of carbon dioxide per hectare a year.
Northland Regional Council's August report says El Niño strengthened considerably last month and could rival 1997-98; below-average rainfall is now the most likely outcome for September to November even though August delivered 172mm, 108% of normal, and left most soils near field capacity.
