CropsAfter an August spike driven by lower output estimates, hoarding and festive demand, duty-free imports, stock limits and an earlier crush have reversed the market while cane costs keep rising.
AgrotechThe Pune company reported Rs 219.3 crore in FY26, targets Rs 400 crore in FY27 as new farms come into production, and plans to bring 25,000 farmers into joint farming.
FisheriesThe PMMSY-funded unit of 20 floats and 120 growing ropes could produce about 3 to 4 tonnes of mussels a season, and a new hatchery aims to end dependence on wild seed.
OpinionEcologist R.J. Ranjit Daniels argues in Mongabay India that the movement of species since 1492 has reshaped Earth's biogeography faster than in any earlier period, with farming and land use as amplifiers.
AgrotechThe 300,000-litre joint venture plant will make chlorella powder using sugar-mill sidestreams and light-assisted fermentation, with production due within 18 months.
CropsThe new lines, CML661A to CML665B, are offered to breeding programmes as parents for hybrids; one already parents hybrids released in India, Nepal, Pakistan and China.
CropsThe draft sets 20 mg/kg for acetamiprid and 50 mg/kg for imidacloprid, two neonicotinoids used against tea mosquito bug, aphids and jassids, with 60 days for public comment.
CropsThe Bharat International Rice Conference runs from 23 to 25 October with 2,038 pre-arranged business meetings and a session on whether 2027 brings a price crash or a new bull run.
AgribusinessThe Bareilly food company's first overseas move, phased over ten years, puts sunflower oil first and adds dairy, contract farming and processing, with about one lakh local jobs expected.
AgrotechAgriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan asked for solar-over-crops rules that suit small farmers, as energy minister Pralhad Joshi said the next phase of PM-KUSUM will include an agrivoltaics programme.
AgrotechThe hydraulic system on the 475 DI MS XP Plus and 575 DI XP Plus holds an implement at the chosen working depth automatically, cutting manual lever adjustments and operator fatigue.
CropsDemonstrations in Mahendergarh district, run by the local Krishi Vigyan Kendra, will measure whether liquid green ammonia improves nitrogen use efficiency and returns in mustard compared with urea.
LivestockThe Himalayan Yak Herders' Network launches on 23 October at Bhutan's Royal Highland Festival as shrinking pastures, climate change and young people leaving threaten highland herding.
CropsADM works with more than 350 farmer producer organisations covering about 50,000 soybean growers in India and sold Regenagri-certified cotton from nearly 20,000 acres in Australia.
HealthIndia's food safety regulator FSSAI has proposed an amendment barring added sucrose and fructose in food for infants under six months; the final rule has not yet been issued.
OpinionIn a Down To Earth column, Afsheen Rizvi and V Sujatha say Japan halved food loss by 2023 through law, data, food banks and the culture of mottainai, and that India, wasting 78-80 million tonnes a year, could build the same system now.
FruitsThe FTA in force from 20 October gives Indian exports duty-free access to New Zealand, ties import quotas for apples, kiwifruit and Manuka honey to productivity plans, and keeps dairy, sugar and edible oils out.
AgrotechThe single-window portal links PM-KISAN, AgriStack and crop insurance with eligibility checks, direct applications and DBT payments, and is built to run on basic smartphones with weak connections.
FisheriesResearchers have split the spiny seahorse into three species, naming Hippocampus amandavincentae from two specimens landed at Thoothukudi, and warn that bottom trawling in the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea threatens it.
VegetablesWholesale tomatoes at Pimpalgaon APMC fell from Rs 321 to Rs 111 a 20-kg crate in a week, as heat sped up ripening and arrivals outran demand, hitting growers already facing drought and high costs.
EnvironmentThe Central Water Commission's bulletin shows 178 major reservoirs at 68.58% of capacity, 24.53% below last year, with the Cauvery and Pennar basins deeply deficient.
CropsThe Soyabean Processors Association of India puts 2026 kharif output at 107.93 lakh tonnes; a 33.2% fall in Maharashtra is partly offset by bigger crops in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.
CropsRajasthan's first estimates put bajra at 4.94 million tonnes and guar at 1.79 million, both down, while groundnut climbs to 2.82 million tonnes in better-watered pockets.
CropsThe money went straight into the bank accounts of 2,48,704 farmers under Bihar's Agriculture Input Grant Scheme, seven weeks after late-August floods and just before rabi sowing.
FisheriesA study of mobulid ray landings at two Thoothukudi sites found per-vessel catches of three species down 83-92% between 2013 and 2023, with fewer adults among the rays brought ashore.
FisheriesA blind, blood-red loach and a slender swamp eel collected from wells in Goalpara district are the first subterranean fishes described from the Brahmaputra floodplain aquifers.
EnvironmentA barking deer turned jet black by melanism has been seen again at Dow Hill in Darjeeling's Kurseong forest division, after first being photographed in January; forest officials say about one deer in a million shows such a change.
EnvironmentThe Junnar forest division in Pune's sugarcane belt, where leopard attacks killed 56 people between 2000 and 2025, is testing reversible immunocontraception as a non-lethal way to manage leopard numbers.
HealthThe Global Climate and Health Alliance's assessment of 132 national climate plans puts India joint-bottom with Japan and New Zealand, noting its plan does not mention air pollution; Colombia, Nigeria and Cambodia lead.
CropsThe All India Kisan Sabha says the official Rs 365 cane price understates costs, wants sugar's minimum selling price raised from Rs 31 to Rs 50 a kg, and calls for MSP at C2+50% on all crops.
EnvironmentState Pollution Control Board readings put the AQI at 314 and 320 at two spots in Dasnagar, Howrah; festival-season traffic, fog and falling temperatures are expected to push pollution higher.
OpinionIndia's protein market is put at about Rs 15,300 crore in 2026, yet egg prices rose 35-40% in a year. A Down To Earth column by Swasti Pachauri asks whether affordable protein is slipping out of reach of poorer households.
CropsIn drought-declared Raichur, a few farmers still grow up to eight crops together under the indigenous Akkadi system. A Down To Earth column by Lokappa Nayak argues their harvests show what yield-only measures miss.
India's food regulator has sanctioned prosecution of the makers of Priyagold biscuits, Dodla Dairy milk and Ueir Organic Foods raisins, and served notices on three other firms for hygiene and licensing lapses.
AgrotechGoogle has put its India-built Agricultural Understanding models into public preview for developers and researchers, and says a Gujarat state platform using them has sent more than 900 million SMS advisories to over 600,000 farmers.
EnvironmentDoodh Ganga, the Jhelum tributary that supplies much of uptown Srinagar, is losing snow and glacier melt while construction has buried part of its course, leaving households with dry taps for days.
