OpinionIn a Financial Express column, ICRIER's Ashok Gulati and Subhodeep Basu call for capital subsidies under PM-Kusum for agri-photovoltaics, a ban on ground-mounted solar on farmland and solar cooperatives modelled on Operation Flood.
VegetablesIreland has fewer, larger mushroom farms but production has stayed level for five years, the agriculture department told the Dáil, with 80-85% of the crop exported to the UK.
Dr Monzil Murshed Diganta, a Bangladeshi hafiz, scholar and physician raised in Portugal, took first place at the 32nd International Quran Competition 2026 in Croatia.
CropsWith the monsoon set to end about 12% below the long-period average and 42% of districts short of rain, experts expect lower yields of tur, soybean, maize and paddy even though sowing is only slightly down.
EnvironmentHeavy rain on 25 and 26 September flooded parts of Uttar Pradesh, killing 56 people, damaging 1,021 houses and cropland, and killing 107 livestock by the government's count.
CropsResearchers from Sultan Qaboos University, the James Hutton Institute and others refined a method to measure DNA-bound phosphorus in soil, a window on the biologically active part of the phosphorus cycle.
AgribusinessThe Commission wants €300bn for agriculture in 2028-2034, against €386.6bn now, and to fold CAP money into national plans; a majority of MEPs opposes ending the standalone budget.
AgrotechIreland's agriculture department wants a supplier to run its Sentinel satellite Area Monitoring System, which checks farm scheme claims on 4.5 million hectares, for four years from May 2027.
CropsICAR-IIMR's regional pearl millet station at Gudamalani, Balotra, opened a new administrative and laboratory building and a technology park, part of Rs 1,716 lakh of investment to strengthen research and farmer training.
EnvironmentA Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust report drawing on 25 years of research says the hedgerows, woodland, game crops and winter feed kept for released pheasants and partridges also feed and shelter other farmland species.
EnvironmentWith almost as many Welsh farmers staying in the old Basic Payment Scheme as joining the new Sustainable Farming Scheme, NFU Cymru president Abi Reader says habitat, hedge and tree rules must change for 2027.
AgrotechAI now runs through almost every step from seedbed to drying; one drone operator has flown 4,042 missions over 1,600 hectares, and a modern drying centre handles 600 tonnes of rice a day.
LivestockNorth Dakota Senator John Hoeven told the state's cattle producers that the Senate farm bill carries his provisions to cap prairie dog colonies on federal grazing land and widen livestock disaster payments.
