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AgribusinessFarmers Weekly walks through the accounts of a 15-hectare maize, tomato and broiler farm in Limpopo to show why accrual accounting, fixed costs and depreciation change the answer.
LivestockProducers in Limpopo and the Free State told Farmers Weekly that combining livestock with game species and crops is becoming a strategy against drought, input costs and stock theft.
AgrotechAleph Farms and Singapore start-up Mottainai Food Tech each received S$1 million at the Asia-Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Summit; one grows beef cells, the other ferments okara left over from tofu.
AgrotechA Q3 2026 round-up by Cultivation Capital's Kyle Welborn finds AgTech grew its share of global venture funding while overall venture investment fell 12%, with six deals of $100 million or more.
AgrotechThe machinery maker says its crop residue programme has baled about 60,000 tonnes of paddy straw since 2017, and its new Ludhiana warehouse aims to deliver baler and tractor parts within 24 hours.
FruitsA hot week at the end of August cut the pollination window for South African fruit marketer Tru-Cape, whose cherry volumes are expected to fall by about half this season.
CropsZuko Godlimpi told a grower finance workshop that smallholders should be helped to pool their land to become bankable, and that existing funds should be better aligned before new money is sought.
LivestockPhuti and Dumisani Maake started Maake Poultry in 2024 with about R40,000 and 200 layer chicks; they deliver eggs on campus and want 20 hectares to expand.
AgrotechThe German start-up grows dairy cells taken from milk itself in its own bioreactor, has worked at 100-litre pilot scale, and has backing from Limburg's development agency LIOF.
AgrotechThe Tokyo cellular agriculture firm took the funds from Niigata Venture Capital as part of a planned ¥700M Series A extension, and works with local brewers to use sake lees and algae residue as cell culture inputs.
CropsScientists from India, Africa and Japan screened pearl millet lines for drought and heat tolerance, disease resistance, grain quality and fodder value at ICRISAT's biennial field day.
HealthResearchers at the University of Chittagong analysed 222 people and found variants in three genes associated with hypertension; the study is published in Elsevier's journal Gene Reports.
VegetablesWith no wholesale market in Khetlal, Joypurhat, farmers sell vegetables to traders in the field at low prices; a local agriculture officer puts the kharif-2 loss at 41.5 million to 55.3 million taka.
GalleryFarm, nature and village scenes from Prothom Alo's photo glimpse of 31 October: pangas catches in Shariatpur, aus paddy drying in Faridpur and rice fields in Rangamati.
CropsBhairab's farm office is running 220 light traps to monitor pests in aman rice; with no brown planthopper found, officers advise perching instead of pesticide, and many farmers remain unconvinced.
GalleryEarly cauliflower is pouring into the Mahasthan wholesale market in Bogura; with supply rising, the price fell by about half in a single day, leaving growers disappointed.
IslamIslamic law sets no fixed Quranic or hadith punishment for bribery, so it is a tazir offence punished at a judge's discretion, and money taken as a bribe must be returned to its owner or the treasury.
CookingAt the gate of Shaheed Dhirendranath Datta Hall, 60-year-old Nur Mia makes hot chitoi and taler pitha from rice-flour batter, served with peanut, dried-fish, coriander and mustard bhorta.
CropsJhum was grown on 5,000 hectares in Rangamati this year, with targets of 12,000 tonnes of rice and 25,000 tonnes of companion vegetables. Farmers say yields are good because pests stayed away.
OpinionIn Ajker Patrika, Tanzim Hossain writes that Dhaka's green and open space fell from 53.11 to 29.85 square kilometres between 2015 and 2023, and that only enforced master plans and tough laws against encroachment can turn things round. The views are the writer's own.
Of 5.175 km of permanent embankment and bank protection in Anwara, Chattogram, 1 km is finished in Raipur and about 80 percent in Juidandi. Residents hope it will end saltwater breaches that ruin crops and shrimp ponds.
Farmers in Sundarganj, Gaibandha, accuse a BCIC dealer at Shobhaganj bazar of citing a shortage to sell fertiliser above the government price and of discrepancies in his stock register. The dealer denies it; the upazila agriculture officer says he will investigate.
To cut its reliance on subsidy, the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh is adding spices and tea after soap, detergent and salt, and plans flour too. Its chairman says the new goods will also sell below market prices.
EnvironmentThe Helsinki-based CREA estimates 57.8 million Indonesians breathed unhealthy to hazardous air in September. PM2.5 in Kalimantan was 24 times the WHO annual limit.
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
GalleryGlimpse, 31 October: pangas in the Padma, aus rice drying, a hill paddy path1 photosGalleryEarly cauliflower floods Bogura's Mahasthan market and prices halve1 photos
GalleryCyclone Arnab flattens ripening paddy and idles fishers on the Andhra coast1 photos
GalleryIn 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 marketSection
AgribusinessFamilies in Alkirhat and Sutiakathi in Nesarabad, Pirojpur, have for generations made brushes and doormats from coconut coir. The goods sell in Dhaka, but artisans earn only Tk 300-500 a day.
EnvironmentWildlife specialist Dr A N M Aminur Rahman photographed the rare and endangered crimson rose (Pachliopta hector) on a yellow wildflower beside the Katka tower in the Sundarbans, and saw it again at Kuakata's Lembur Bon.
A gang with chainsaws is felling riverbank plantation trees at the Padma-Baral confluence and government trees along village roads in Charghat, Rajshahi. Environmental groups count at least 5,000 felled in two years; 25 of the upazila's 38 sawmills are unlicensed.
EnvironmentFarmer Hasan caught a large Russell's viper trying to bite a sheep in Shimultala field near the zero line in Damurhuda. The Forest Department will release it in the Sundarbans through a team from Khulna.
FisheriesA 16-month survey of 65 Sundarbans rivers and canals by CNRS and Aranyak Foundation recorded 251 fish and 51 crustacean species, seven of them new records for Bangladesh's coastal waters.
EnvironmentA 15-16 kg Ganges river dolphin was sold for Tk 2,100 at a wholesaler in Daulatdia, Goalanda, Rajbari. Selling it is illegal; the fisheries officer said it was a matter for the Forest Department.
