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AgrotechResearchers used food-grade phosphate salts to make pumpkin seed protein, left over after oil pressing, form a stable emulsion, and a 12-person panel preferred their prototype creamer in coffee to a commercial one.
CropsCANZA's Million Acre Challenge will enrol about 60 more Ontario farms, paying $31, $25 and $12.50 an acre over three years with agronomic advice, backed by a new $10.5 million gift from the Weston family.
CropsUSDA's November estimates for Arkansas lowered corn and soybean yields by three bushels an acre and peanuts by 100 pounds, raised rice slightly and left cotton unchanged, as harvest neared its end.
The agreement, signed in Antalya, sets a framework for CGIAR research on soils, rangelands, drought and land finance to feed into the work of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification and the countries that report to it.
FruitsAverage US cranberry yields rose 90 percent, from 119 barrels an acre in the early 1980s to 227 in 2023-25, and the 2026 crop is forecast at 7.87 million barrels, 5 percent more than last year.
A parliamentary committee wants large-scale farms left unused without good reason to pay a levy that rises each year, with the money ring-fenced for land development, irrigation and extension, but an economist says it would not be paid.
A study of 1,898 processed and ultra-processed products found that the share judged unhealthy ranged from under half to almost all, depending on which of five UK nutrient profiling models was used.
US biomanufacturer Amyris will acquire California's Oobli, which makes sugar-like sweet proteins by precision fermentation in yeast, in a deal of undisclosed size expected to close in the coming weeks.
The farm machinery maker has begun work on a 100-acre factory in the Yamuna Expressway industrial area that will build up to 100,000 tractors a year for India and export markets, with the first phase due in mid-2028.
CropsUniversity of Sheffield researchers used a molecular "plant vaccination" tool to show how plants hold on to a memory of infection without unleashing jumping genes, and early rice work suggests part of that memory passes to offspring.
Professor Anjali Goswami told the REAP conference that demanding complete proof before new farm technology reaches commercial farms risks slowing adoption, while farmers said they need to see payback, not promise.
President Lula and Agriculture Minister André de Paula visit the Philippines from 13 to 16 November, the first visit by a sitting Brazilian president, while Manila keeps a 60-day ban on pork imports to protect its recovering hog farms.
Uttar Pradesh has not yet announced its State Advisory Price for sugarcane for 2026-27, although mills have started crushing and retail sugar is about 35 per cent dearer than a year ago.
In a Rural Voice column, Vinay Nair argues that artificial intelligence can turn scattered weather, satellite, soil and field data into timely pest, irrigation and harvest advice for Indian farmers, if the data layer underneath is built first.
EnvironmentWetlands in Khulna's Dumuria that once drew at least 50 species of winter birds have seen almost none for several years, as beels are filled, turned into fish enclosures and trapped by poachers.
CropsSpeakers at a COP31 round table said sustainable-farming technology is not reaching fields, and called for grants, easy loans, soil testing, tolerant varieties and crop insurance for smallholders.
AgrotechAkshay Hole and Divya Lohakare Hole mist the roots with water and nutrients and control temperature and humidity to recreate Kashmir's climate in hot Nagpur, earning Rs 40-50 lakh a year.
EnvironmentOnly 99 km of Bhola's 351 km of flood embankments are permanent; residents want shelters, stronger embankments and early warnings on the anniversary of the 1970 cyclone.
FruitsBelal Hossain's 400-plus malta trees on five bighas by the Kapotaksha in Khulna have borne a bumper crop, sold from the orchard at Tk 250 a kilogram.
OpinionAminul Islam Hero writes in Ajker Patrika that adaptation finance must come as grants, not loans; the national adaptation plan needs about US$230 billion over 27 years, so transparency at home matters too.
OpinionOn World Pneumonia Day, physician and public-health specialist Lelin Chowdhury writes that vaccines, nutrition, clean air and seeing a doctor at the first symptoms are what cut deaths.
OpinionRecalling the Bhola cyclone of 12 November 1970, journalist and researcher Shafiqul Islam Khokon argues that the date should be declared Coastal Day as a national commitment to 50 million coastal people.
EnvironmentBack at a climate summit after five years, Thunberg told Samakal in Antalya that promises do not match action, and that those least responsible for the crisis, Bangladesh among them, suffer most.
LivestockMilk output is 15.753 million tonnes against demand of 16.279 million; at the Green Dairy Partnership Summit the livestock state minister called for higher productivity and lower greenhouse gas emissions.
Watch
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
GalleryVegetable seedlings on floating beds: the 150-year-old dhap farming, in pictures1 photos
GalleryNetting farmed fish from the ponds of Kahalu, Bogura, in pictures1 photos
GalleryBangladesh on 11 November: gerberas, Kaptai fishers and paddy drying in the field1 photos
GalleryRuddy shelducks, gulls and red-crested pochards flock to Padma chars in Rajshahi1 photos
GalleryFrom trawler to boat to cold store: unloading fish at Chattogram's Karnaphuli ghat1 photos
GalleryA dragonfly lighter than a gram flies from India to the Maldives and Africa1 photos
GalleryGlimpse, 10 November: butterflies on bean flowers, garlic going inSection
IslamAt Abu Ubaida mosque in Jordan, worshippers' ablution water is filtered through five layers of gravel and sand and fed to trees through buried drip lines; in 18 years the scheme has reached 18 mosques and schools.
EnvironmentThe High Court told every divisional commissioner and the head of the Department of Environment to close illegal brick kilns and report back by 14 December.
EnvironmentUsing 84 years of daily rainfall data, IIT Madras and Gauhati University researchers find the large-scale monsoon first forms over Northeast India around 15 May, a method they say could help farmers avoid sowing on false onsets.
