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Government Cuts Aromatic Rice Export Quota by 50 Percent
The commerce ministry has cut the approved aromatic rice export quota by half and imposed ten conditions to protect domestic supply and prices.
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CropsTest soil and grain, skip phosphate you do not need, Illinois agronomists advise
With fertiliser prices high and margins thin, a Burrus Seed agronomist and a University of Illinois soil scientist say soil tests within 10 to 20 per cent of the recommendation, grain testing for real removal rates and variable-rate spreading can cut phosphorus spending without giving up yield.
CropsNear-record heat units put Indiana and Kentucky corn two weeks ahead of harvest
Growing degree units in southern Indiana came within 50 of the highest on record from March to August, and with heavy rain and high night temperatures speeding maturity, agronomists at the Farm Progress Show urged growers to scout for crown rot and lodging risk and harvest those fields first.
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Drought-hit Kansas farmers try Kernza, a perennial grain planted once every few years
After his worst winter-wheat harvest since 2017, Bryce Black is weighing perennial grains whose deep roots reach water, hold soil and store carbon; Kernza, domesticated by The Land Institute since 2001, covered just 3,511 acres in the US last year and yields 20–40% of wheat, but cuts fertiliser, fue
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Khirsapat Mangoes Still Available in Chapainawabganj, and Here Is How
Farmers in Shibganj, Chapainawabganj, are experimentally harvesting Khirsapat mangoes out of season from trees grafted with Katimon, and selling them at several times the seasonal price.
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Texas expects 39m pounds of pecans, up from 32m, but a dry August is hitting kernel fill
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension pecan specialist Monte Nesbitt estimates the 2026 Texas crop at about 39 million pounds against 32 million last year, after a wet spring spread scab, downy spot and powdery mildew and a hot, dry August arrived just as kernels began to fill; wholesale prices approached $3
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Jute Cultivation Rises in Sharsha, Jashore, but Farmers Fear for a Fair Price
Farmers in Sharsha, Jashore, have grown jute on 503 more hectares this year, but rising costs have left them worried about getting a fair price.
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Zero-tillage under straw on saline Sundarbans land: a decade of Australian–Indian research puts women farmers in front
At a seminar at Narendrapur Ramakrishna Mission, Australia's ACIAR and CSIRO, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya and the saline-soil research station at Canning presented ten years of work on West Bengal's cyclone-battered coast — rainwater harvesting and straw-mulched surface cropping have brough
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Jute thin at the Kurigram market as growers allege cross-border sales
Despite a good harvest, supply at the Jatrapur market has fallen and traders say middlemen are buying jute at a premium and moving it to India by river.
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Zimbabwe's Mbire farmers put indigenous seeds on show as crop diversity shrinks
More than 500 people from 17 wards gathered for the Mbire Good Food and Seed Festival, where over twenty local crop varieties were displayed and exchanged and farmers voiced concern that fewer landraces leave them exposed to drought.
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Vietnam certifies a seeder that cuts rice seed use by two-thirds
A seeder that places rice seed 1-2 mm deep and fertiliser 3-4 cm below it has been certified as a national technical advance in Vietnam after pilots in eight Mekong Delta provinces cut seed rates by up to 65 per cent.
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Joypurhat's extension committee sets the Rabi 2026-27 work plan: mobile courts on fertiliser and seed, soil-tested fertiliser doses, 20 Krishikatha subscribers per block
Chaired by DAE deputy director Md Monju Alam Sarker at Khamarbari on 7 September, the District Agricultural Technical Extension Committee approved the Kharif-2 plan and agreed on crop and variety selection, assured seed supply and market monitoring for the coming Rabi season; 40 attended, including
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One Lakh Farmers to Receive Farmer Cards on 17 September
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman will formally launch the farmer card programme in Fulgazi, Feni, on 17 September, when about one lakh farmers will receive incentive money.