At Gabtola bazar in Nageshwari, Kurigram, farmers who arrived at the scheduled hour found the dealer's 80 sacks already gone; they confined a sub-assistant agriculture officer in the warehouse and blocked the road with tree trunks until the UNO freed him around noon.
Farmers who arrived at a dealer's point in Nageshwari's Gabtala Bazar to find the fertiliser gone blocked the Madarganj-Kachakata road with tree trunks on Friday morning and confined a sub-assistant agriculture officer in the warehouse for about four hours.
A dialogue report from the UK-CGIAR Centre's wheat improvement project, drawing on a June 2026 policy-learning event with eight countries, finds 34 countries with genome-editing frameworks and 39 changing theirs, warns that the same product can be classed differently across borders, and recommends a
Bayer expects 80% of its corn portfolio to be short-statured by 2040, Corteva plans demos in 2027, and Purdue trials show conventionally bred short hybrids matching tall ones in 2025 — with roots up to 30% more flexible, higher optimum seeding rates and a 369-bushel contest yield from an Indiana gro
University of Minnesota Extension says row-crop growers can cut future weed pressure by mowing field edges, pulling escapes before they reach the combine, harvesting clean fields first and cleaning machines between fields.
Farmers in four Faridpur upazilas have petitioned the deputy commissioner, alleging dealers charge Tk 10–12 a kilogram above the government rate for subsidised fertiliser and refuse to issue cash memos.
Marked every 18 September, World Bamboo Day makes the case that this fast-growing, carbon-absorbing plant is a timber substitute, a source of rural jobs and even a vegetable and a grain, with untapped potential in Bangladesh.
Embrapa researchers isolated 14 strains of five Trichoderma species from native scrub and irrigated melon fields in Bahia and Piauí; strains from farmed soil kept growing at 35 °C, outcompeted Rhizoctonia and Macrophomina head-on and cut other pathogens' growth by more than 70% with volatile compoun
A Nature Plants review led by Charles Sturt University with Queensland, Curtin, UC Riverside and GreenLight Biosciences says the first RNAi products against Colorado potato beetle and varroa mite mark a turning point, production costs have fallen sharply, and the remaining barriers are divergent app
The ICAR-Indian Institute of Rapeseed-Mustard Research at Bharatpur has signed a non-exclusive agreement with Abhimanyu Seeds of Hapur for hybrid seed production and marketing of Indian mustard hybrid NRCHB-506, which director Vijay Veer Singh ties to India's goal of self-sufficiency in edible oils.
The trait adds 2,4-D and mesotrione to the glyphosate, dicamba and glufosinate tolerance of XtendFlex, and Bayer says a new trait-integration approach has put it into newer genetics yielding more than two bushels an acre extra; EU stack approval and Chinese import approval are still pending, with a
The Bakshiganj upazila administration stopped a van in Tupkarchar village of Merurchar union at around 1am on Thursday night and seized 23 sacks of fertiliser; officials are tracing where the consignment came from and where it was headed.
Long-term Iowa State University trials found no soybean yield difference between tillage systems, and the university's checklist asks farmers to name the problem tillage will solve before they start.
