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LivestockMeat & Livestock Australia's State of the Industry Report 2026 puts red meat and livestock turnover at $99.9 billion in 2024-25 and exports at a record $28.3 billion in 2025, while warning of high input costs and pressure on farm margins.
LivestockThe National Farmers' Federation welcomed the federal government's confirmation that Australia has not endorsed the 2026 Global Methane Pledge Ministerial Declaration released at COP31, and that its methane pledge places no obligations on farmers.
LivestockUSDA's APHIS has confirmed highly pathogenic avian influenza H5 in an Oregon dairy herd through routine milk surveillance, the state's first case in cattle; dairy cattle in 22 states have now been infected since March 2024.
LivestockBrazilian beef exporter Minerva Foods lost R$717.3 million in the third quarter as the cost of slaughter cattle rose about 24% and Brazil's quota under China's safeguard measure ran out, while sales from Paraguay and Argentina grew strongly.
AgribusinessSouth African fertiliser and chemicals group Omnia raised operating profit by 26% to R1.1 billion in the six months to September, but says softer crop prices, high input costs and a drier season will weigh on the rest of the year.
FruitsChina's removal of its 10% import tariff on South African fruit has lifted Tru-Cape's apple exports to China by almost 50% this year, while South African apples still face a 50% duty in India.
AgrotechResearchers at BITS Pilani's Hyderabad campus have built a low-cost system in which black soldier fly larvae turn kitchen and food waste into protein-rich feed for poultry, pigs and fish in about two weeks.
An advisory service led by ICRISAT, Self Help Africa and Ethiopia's Ministry of Agriculture gives farmers crop- and site-specific fertilizer recommendations; one farmer cut her fertilizer use by 67%.
FisheriesRising feed and production costs are pushing China's aquaculture towards higher-value species and precision farming, especially in shrimp, according to IFFO China Director Maggie Xu.
CropsAt its 477th meeting the Registration Committee of India's Central Insecticides Board approved 14 products from 11 companies, led by new weed-control mixtures for rice, wheat and sugarcane.
CropsA University of Missouri team adapted OpenCRISPR-1, a gene-editing tool designed by artificial intelligence, to make rice lines resistant to bacterial blight, one of the crop's most damaging diseases.
LivestockMexico has scaled back a nationwide ban on Brazilian poultry to cover only Santa Catarina, the state where Newcastle disease was found on a turkey farm in October; China and Chile also restrict only that state.
VegetablesThe agriculture ministry's Tk 199 crore rabi incentive of 2 November covers seven crops but nothing for onion, after output rose about 30 percent in two years; experts fear a return to imports.
Bangladesh's coffee imports rose from about 139 tonnes in 2003 to about 1,745 tonnes in 2022, BSS reports; growing it in Bandarban, Rangamati and Khagrachhari could cut that dependence.
GalleryThirteen pictures follow farmers in Bangladesh's southern wetlands as they build floating beds of water hyacinth and duckweed, raise vegetable seedlings on them and sell them to traders by boat.
GalleryProthom Alo photographer Soyel Rana followed a harvest of farmed pangas, mrigal and pabda in the ponds of Panch Pir Mazar and Isabpur village in Bogura's Kahalu upazila.
Bangladesh's food ministry is starting a special open-market sale of rice for garment workers: 75 trucks will sell it every Friday in Dhaka, Gazipur, Narayanganj and Chattogram for an initial three months, possibly from 20 November.
Bangladesh's health ministry has taken responsibility for the health care of about 60 million city dwellers; urban health centres will run under the existing arrangement for six months while a lasting urban health model is finalised.
CropsA short burst of hail at midnight on Tuesday laid down aman rice close to harvest in Sherpur's Nalitabari and in Rangpur's Mithapukur and Pirgachha, where potatoes were also hit.
AgribusinessCumin has risen Tk 40-50 a kilo in two weeks and cardamom now sells at Tk 4,600-5,500, while a growing supply of winter vegetables is easing the prices of vegetables, eggs and chicken.
CropsHail fell across several upazilas from Wednesday evening; the extension department says losses are not yet assessed but most of the paddy is already harvested.
HealthThe INMAS lab beside Chattogram Medical College Hospital, with its own cyclotron, scanned six patients on day one at about half the Dhaka private price.
The bank's largest climate loan package will help Turkey launch emissions trading, cut carbon sector by sector and strengthen adaptation.
HealthA mobile court raided Dwarik Bhandar, an old sweet shop in Lalbazar, and destroyed about four maunds of kachagolla and sandesh made in filth.
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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.
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GalleryVegetable seedlings on floating beds: the 150-year-old dhap farming, in pictures1 photosGalleryNetting 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
EnvironmentOnce the fastest ocean liner and longer than the Titanic, the ship is to go down off Destin as a habitat for marine life and a site for divers.
EnvironmentRubbish is tipped on the riverbanks and the big drains empty into the river; with both dumping grounds shut, the new city corporation has nowhere set aside for waste.
EnvironmentDepartment of Environment checks at four factories in the Shyampur-Kadamtali industrial area on Wednesday found Siba Textile discharging untreated liquid waste through an illegal line that bypassed its effluent treatment plant; samples from all four go to the laboratory.
EnvironmentAn International Energy Agency report released at COP31 says waste prevention, recycling and energy from residual organic waste could also double plastic recycling and quadruple biogas output; the world produces about 2.6 billion tonnes of municipal waste a year.
EnvironmentHeavy hail on Wednesday morning was followed by snow on Sandakphu, West Bengal's highest peak, while large hailstones whitened crop fields in Jalpaiguri's Rajganj and Gajoldoba and in Alipurduar's Kumargram.
EnvironmentSpecimens of the Bachman's warbler, heath hen, Kauai oo, Carolina parakeet and passenger pigeon in a Smithsonian exhibition show how hunting, forest clearing and disease can wipe a species out for good.
