Crops
Ruin by Fertiliser
With farmers blocking roads and raiding dealers' warehouses despite official claims of surplus stocks, a columnist warns that the gap between the warehouse ledger and the field must close before history repeats itself.
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Agribusiness
Agribusiness
New 45Z guidance ties low-carbon farm practices to the US clean fuel tax credit
The IRS has ruled that USDA-recognised low-carbon farming practices count towards the 45Z Clean Fuel Production Credit and the Energy Department has updated its carbon model accordingly, a step corn, soybean and sorghum groups say finally makes the credit usable for farmers and biofuel plants.
Agribusiness
ProducePay shifts from lending to farm data, expects profit by year end
Fresh-produce platform ProducePay has raised $140 million in equity and financing capacity and is moving outside investors into its grower-advance business so it can build a data and technology service on top, with CEO Patrick McCullough expecting profitability by the end of the year.
AgribusinessUS farm interest bills head for a record in 2026 as FSA lending jumps 25 per cent
USDA expects inflation-adjusted farm interest expenses to be the highest ever recorded this year, the Farm Bureau says, while the Farm Service Agency lent US$6.74 billion in fiscal 2025 and a farm bill proposal would nearly double direct operating loan limits.
Agrotech
European Commission adopts AgRI 2040 and Food 2040 to steer farm and food research to 2034
The twin frameworks will guide Horizon Europe 2028–2034 and parts of the European Competitiveness Fund, putting weight on testing solutions with farmers and getting them to market; Euroseeds welcomed the naming of plant breeding as a cornerstone of cropping systems and asked for matching money under
Vegetables
Onion with Black Spots: Eat It or Throw It Away?
A slight dark mark on an onion's dry skin may be harmless, but if black powder or mould remains after peeling, the onion is safer thrown away.
Crops
Bangladesh's Food Products Now Exported Worldwide With a Good Reputation, Says Food Minister
Opening the 11th BAPA Foodpro International Expo, Food Minister Afroza Khanam said the agro-processing sector can earn large amounts of foreign exchange.
Crops
Food Processing Technology and Machinery on Show Under One Roof at Foodpro Expo
The 11th BAPA Foodpro International Expo brought more than 200 brands from 27 countries and over 4,000 technology and machinery solutions to Dhaka.
Agribusiness
Coast Guard seizes 35,000 kg of urea being smuggled to Myanmar from Sitakunda
Seven hundred sacks of KAFCO urea worth about Tk 24.5 lakh were being loaded from trucks onto a cargo boat at Banshbaria ghat when the Coast Guard's East Zone moved in; two men were detained and three trucks seized.
Fruits
South African cherries win access to China, with an early window before Chile arrives
A protocol signed in Beijing on 8 September by agriculture minister Willie Aucamp and GACC's Sun Meijun opens the world's largest cherry import market — 586,900 tonnes worth US$3.3 billion in 2025 — to South African growers for the first time; the department expects about 600 new jobs, and exporter
Fisheries
Prawns and pomfret bought as a gift for Kuwait go under the hammer a second time
Of 20 tonnes of premium fish bought in April, only 5 tonnes of tiger shrimp sold at the first auction; TCB wants bids for 10 tonnes of freshwater prawn and 5 tonnes of pomfret by 12.30pm on 15 September.
Vegetables
Silent Vegetable Revolution in Sherpur, Tk 250 Crore Trade Expected
Vegetables grown in Sherpur this Kharif-2 season are worth about Tk 250 crore, and farmers enjoying good yields and prices want big wholesalers to buy directly from their fields.
Fruits
Katimon, the Thai year-round mango, is taking over Bangladesh's off-season market
Output has reached about 100,000 tonnes a year on some 7,000 acres, returns run to about Tk 500,000 a bigha, and ripe fruit sells at Tk 160–280 a kilo from pavement carts to upmarket shops in September.