The fifth-generation farmer from Mourneabbey, organic since 2010, is one of three finalists in the female category of the EU Organic Awards to be presented in Brussels on September 23.
Receiving a delegation from Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University at Bangabhaban, President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir called on agricultural universities and extension services to work together to make farmers aware.
Axel Månsson, who farms 3,000 hectares in Jutland, has run an AgXeed T2 7-SERIES autonomous tractor with a Carbon Robotics LaserWeeder since April and says labour is where it saves most.
OrganicIndustry figures for Organic Month put Canadian organic sales at about C$11.88bn in 2025 and rank the country fifth in the world; Statistics Canada values certified organic fruit and vegetables at C$171.8m at the farm gate, with organic vegetables on 5.5% of field vegetable acreage.
In eastern Côte d'Ivoire, FAO's SAGA 2 project is pairing sustainable-farming training with village savings and loan associations so women can borrow at rates they set themselves and grow vegetables without chemical inputs.
On three hectares where a juice factory dumped its waste, tree biomass rose 176 per cent and the soil grew richer; the Princeton study suggests farm and food-industry waste can restore forest.
Vegetable growers working with WASSAN in Andhra Pradesh's dry Rayalaseema are rebuilding the habitat that pollinators, spiders, ladybirds and soil fungi need — zinnia strips along fields, companion crops, staggered planting, farm ponds, trees on bunds and cloth ground cover that keeps soil cool and
Melissa Moody, who had never sat on a tractor before COVID-19 cost her a job, bought Carl Hoellerer's organic dairy at Cincinnatus, New York, in February with a Farm Service Agency loan and the sale of her house, milking 45 cows on 127 acres with a mentor a phone call away.
Fig, known as tin or dumur, is emerging as an exotic fruit with commercial potential in Bangladesh, growing in fields and rooftop tubs year-round.
Improved varieties and mixed cropping of onion with black cumin and coriander can raise spice yields and incomes on Bangladesh's char lands.
Twenty-eight Ethiopian researchers, ministry staff and NGO workers spent four days in Arba Minch learning landscape-based natural resource management from ICAR and ICRISAT scientists, combining classroom work with a visit to a GIZ-supported micro-watershed.
Water left from washing rice can help some indoor plants in small amounts, but it must be used sparingly, without salt or spices, and never as a replacement for fertiliser.
North Carolina building-materials company Plantd, which was paying $13,000 a month to remove leftover grass biomass, has launched a biochar line made from that waste and is selling it to farmers as a soil amendment.
