CropsUSDA expects North Dakota corn to average 130 bushels an acre this year against 158 in 2025, with only 27% of the crop rated good to excellent, and the rain that finally came is now delaying harvest.
With little rain mid-season, upland transplanted Aman needs regular irrigation, but the diesel price rise has left many Jamalpur farmers unable to water as needed, and they fear lower yields.
University of Guelph breeder Mohsen Yoosefzadeh Najafabadi says an AI model trained on years of dry bean data narrows tens of thousands of possible crosses to a few hundred, and the first variety selected with it should reach growers in about two years.
CropsThe declaration brings land-revenue waivers, crop-loan restructuring and a stay on farm-loan recovery, while GPS-tagged crop surveys will decide cash aid for farmers hit by an 18.8% rainfall deficit.
EnvironmentAn analysis of 422 studies found reduced and zero tillage the most reliable conservation practices for lowering greenhouse gases, while mulching and fertiliser strategies gave mixed results depending on climate and soil.
IslamWriting in Amar Desh's literary supplement, Zahid Hasan describes how the Abbasid Caliphate (750-1258) built networks of canals and dams to bring Iraq's idle land under cultivation, and how irrigation technology turned al-Andalus into fertile farmland.
Early Aman is yielding 14-18 maunds a bigha in Kishoreganj, Nilphamari, but with paddy at Tk 500-600 a maund against costs of Tk 14,000-15,000 a bigha, farmers are losing up to Tk 5,000-6,000 a bigha.
Market ManagementAn analysis on FarmingPortal warns that costs locked in during 2026, from diesel to imported fertiliser and finance, could meet a very strong El Niño and turn next year's crop into an expensive, lower-yielding one.
CropsResearchers in the United States and Brazil reviewed how plant growth-promoting fungi such as Trichoderma and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi could help crops cope with nutrient-poor regolith, but say tests on real Moon and Mars material are still needed.
On the Sandhya river at Banaripara in Barishal, a paddy and rice market held from boats has run for about 200 years by local elders' reckoning; traders bring paddy by river from across the south and go home with rice.
The seizure of 78 tonnes of urea bound for Myanmar at Mirsarai and Sitakunda in two days has sharpened concern over leakage, hoarding and artificial shortages of subsidised fertiliser ahead of the Boro season; the government says stocks are sufficient.
In markets of Matlab Uttar, Chandpur, crop-protection products have risen 10-20 percent in a year on average and some, such as Thiovit, have doubled; farmers say their production costs keep climbing.
Urea is selling for Tk 33-40 a kg and TSP for Tk 55-60 in markets across Cumilla against an official Tk 27, while the district agriculture extension office says stocks are sufficient.
