The Advancing Markets for Producers money from NRCS will go out as direct grants of $20,000 to $300,000 to help growers sell crops raised with soil-health practices.
OrganicSolidaridad says 50 to 60 Indian tea gardens, 10 in the south, have joined, and that cotton farmers in Maharashtra under the scheme saw yields rise 10–20%.
EnvironmentFarmers who register with the department may spread slurry until 7 October, with the closed period starting on 8 October and zero tolerance after that.
AgribusinessInterviews with 15 businesses that grow food on salt-affected land, from halophyte farms to salt-tolerant seed and desalination firms, find weak demand rather than money holding the sector back.
About 50 farmers from the Indian Sundarbans tested draft rules and business models for integrated mangrove aquaculture at a WorldFish and IWMI workshop in West Bengal.
EnvironmentSix producer groups told Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada that its national soil health strategy needs farmer-led research, regional metrics and room for small and unconventional farms.
CropsPlains Cotton Growers says dryland fields suffered most after a promising start, in a region that grows about 35% of US cotton.
A proposed settlement with NRDC sets a firm date for ruling on food tolerances for acetamiprid, clothianidin, dinotefuran, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam.
EnvironmentMore than 40,000 Indians declared exotic pets in 2020, and as red-eared sliders, iguanas and snakes are released or escape, experts warn of invasive species and call for rescue centres and a national surrender policy.
Field trials at the University of Lleida found pre-flowering heat cut grain numbers most, while plants hit early suffered less from a second heat wave.
OpinionIn a Mongabay India commentary, fisheries researcher John Kurien explains why fishers near Thiruvananthapuram felt a colder sea this July despite El Nino: local monsoon-driven upwelling, not the Pacific, cools the coast.
EnvironmentA Freedom of Information answer shows the soil assessments, management plans and organic-matter tests paid for under the Sustainable Farming Incentive were not routinely gathered, a gap campaigners say cost England a national soil dataset.
CropsAfter walking through dried-up soybean and tur fields in Washim district, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said a government order releasing relief under 'Trigger 1' of the state's drought code would be issued the next day.
