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AgribusinessTea prices have risen only 2 to 3 percent a year while costs rose 10 to 14 percent; the industry wants a Tea Board committee's recommendation for a minimum sustainable price put into effect.
EnvironmentA proposal to lease 3.67 acres of char in the Shakbaria river at Khashitana, Koyra, as a sand quarry awaits final approval; the Forest Department and the Department of Environment say it should not be approved.
EnvironmentAbdul Hafeez Khoso of Jacobabad and 38 other Pakistani farmers are suing energy firm RWE and cement maker Heidelberg Materials, arguing that their emissions fuelled the rains that destroyed crops, livestock and homes.
CropsA US$30 million PKSF project funded by the Green Climate Fund has re-excavated 143 km of canals and 250 ponds in drought-prone Rajshahi, Naogaon and Chapainawabganj, and fitted 1,600 rooftops with aquifer recharge systems.
HealthDelhi-NCR hospitals report more patients with breathing difficulties, coughs and asthma as post-Diwali air pollution worsens, while a dedicated pollution clinic at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital saw no patients on a Monday visit.
CropsMichigan State University pathologist Marty Chilvers says maize white spot is now confirmed in 20 to 24 counties and has left heavy fungal residue, while tar spot and white mold did less damage than in past years.
VegetablesUniversity of Guelph researchers are storing potato varieties at different temperatures to find those that resist cold-induced sweetening, which can make up to 20% of Ontario's chip potatoes unfit for processors.
AgrotechBunge and plant genetics company GDM have set up Enerseed, a joint venture that will use breeding and gene editing to develop non-traditional oilseeds as low-carbon biofuel feedstocks and license its genetics openly.
LivestockThe US Foreign Agricultural Service says animal disease outbreaks, among them bluetongue and the fast-spreading Shamonda virus in France, are holding back EU milk deliveries in 2026 and adding to farm consolidation.
AgrotechIsraeli start-up Meala says its single-ingredient texturising pea protein can replace the additives used to bind blended meat burgers, after trained tasters found no significant flavour difference from an all-beef patty.
AgrotechCultivated meat start-up SeaWith has signed a non-binding agreement to invest about $14.9 million in a plant at Uiseong's new food tech centre, aiming for three 2,000-litre bioreactors and 400 tonnes of capacity.
LivestockAustria, Luxembourg and Germany already ban enriched cages for laying hens, several other countries plan to, and the European Commission has proposed phasing out cages in its Livestock Strategy.
CropsBayer has delivered the first US load of Convintro, a pre-emergent herbicide built on diflufenican, a Group 12 active ingredient new to the US, aimed at herbicide-resistant waterhemp and Palmer amaranth in corn and soybeans for 2027.
EnvironmentThe Global Methane Hub says existing practices such as alternate wetting and drying cannot deliver the cuts needed from rice and livestock, and has launched a strategy to halve rice methane by 2040 through its $100 million accelerator.
LivestockJapan's agriculture minister said milk output has held steady despite a fall in dairy farms to 9,019, and pledged smart livestock farming, productivity gains and more home-grown feed to keep small and medium farms going.
VegetablesNthato Motlana, a 2026 Woolworths Youth Makers winner, grows vegetables on 1.5ha of his family's 150ha farm in Lanseria and has spent a year working towards GlobalGAP compliance with biological pest control, mulch and drip irrigation.
HealthA small USC study of 46 children found that those eating more ultra-processed food reacted more strongly to food pictures in a habit-forming brain region, and that response predicted fat gain over the next year.
LivestockConfirmed New World screwworm infestations in the US reached 116, with 56 still active, a rise of nearly 47% in a week, according to USDA data cited by animal health officials.
CropsThe UK Health and Safety Executive confirmed that dimethomorph's approval expires on 30 November after a review classed it as an endocrine disruptor and toxic for reproduction; farmers may use stock until May 2028.
CropsBunge's wheat trading head told an industry congress that Brazil could import 9.5 million to 10 million tonnes of wheat in 2027, the most in 30 years, as its own crop deteriorated.
CropsIvory Coast's April to September 2027 cocoa mid-crop is now put at 300,000 to 350,000 tonnes, against about 600,000 tonnes a year earlier, after weak El Nino rains in October.
IslamThe time for Isha lasts until true dawn; Hanafi scholars say praying it after midnight is disliked but still valid, and that midnight is reckoned as the halfway point between sunset and dawn.
Botany professor Md Ashrafuzzaman describes Trichosanthes costata, or kakjhinga, and warns that the wild fruit should not be eaten without sure identification and reliable evidence that it is safe.
EnvironmentIllegal drum-chimney and fixed-chimney kilns are firing up across the south as the season starts; owners say they "manage" the Department of Environment, which puts the count at just over 200 and has no magistrate of its own.
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
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 in1 photos
GalleryEgrets trail the power tiller on Bogura's Karatoya riverbank fields1 photos
GalleryOld Dhaka's monkeys hold on in a graveyard's trees and old buildings1 photos
GalleryGlimpse, 9 November: Teesta char potatoes, aman harvest and the jhum trail1 photos
GalleryA day with the spotted deer at the National Zoo, where fawns delight childrenSection
OpinionWriting from the climate conference in Antalya, researcher Pavel Partha notes that food systems emit a third of greenhouse gases but get only four percent of climate finance, and argues for agroecology.
CropsNearly three decades of conflict between people and wild elephants in Jhenaigati, Sreebordi and Nalitabari have killed 33 to 39 elephants and 35 people; fear peaks at harvest time.
EnvironmentA study in Regional Studies in Marine Science counted 6,575 burrows at Lemburban, Char Gangamati and Char Bijoy in Kuakata and found red crab burrows about 19 times denser in protected areas than in unprotected ones.
