CropsAgriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan set a rabi target of 177.72 million tonnes and said opening fertiliser stocks are 47% higher than last year, with no shortage for the season.
FruitsPlantings from a decade ago are reaching full production; a USDA outlook puts the US crop 18% above the 2025 record, while Turkish frost damage has lifted exports and prices.
The community medicine department of Bankura Sammilani Medical College held a camp in Patalkhuri village with eye, dental, skin and child specialists and free blood sugar, blood pressure and ECG tests.
HealthAn IARC study attributes 2.3 million new cases to viruses, bacteria and parasites, led by H. pylori and HPV, with low- and middle-income countries bearing about three-quarters.
AgrotechLindt-backed Food Brewer has launched Yodel Bites, a cocoa-free bar made from fermented and roasted yellow pea by-products and carob, on Swiss SBB trains, while it continues work on cell-grown cocoa.
AgribusinessA University of Illinois analysis of AFIDA records finds foreign interests in about 46.3 million acres, 89% of it commercial forestland, with Chinese-linked holdings a small share.
Agri-TechE director Dr Belinda Clarke says supermarkets and supply chain firms investing in agtech, alongside strong UK public funding, give start-ups an alternative to venture capital in a hard market.
EnvironmentNorthern Ireland Environment Link says protected areas may count for as little as 0.38% of land and freshwater, and DAERA has yet to publish how progress will be measured.
CropsICAR-CTCRI in Thiruvananthapuram signed an agreement with Sugam Organics, which will source tubers and make fried cassava snacks without artificial colours.
AgribusinessCoal India Limited and Hindustan Urvarak & Rasayan Limited have signed an MoU to explore making ammonia and urea from domestic coal at HURL's Sindri unit in Jharkhand, to cut reliance on imported fertiliser and gas.
CGIAR's urban food systems lead Dr Mukani Moyo points to compost in Vietnam, insect feed in Nairobi schools and food rescue in Lima, and says technology alone will not solve losses. The views are the writer's own.
CropsGrowers in Orkney and Caithness are battling saturated fields and losses, while further south yields are satisfactory, winter crops are going in well and potato lifting is advancing.
AgribusinessEvery dollar of US agricultural exports supported $2.08 of total economic activity in 2024, the USDA Economic Research Service estimates, with processed goods adding the most.
