Vegetables
How to Put Onion and Garlic Peels to Use Instead of Throwing Them Away
Onion and garlic peels, usually thrown away, can flavour stocks and soups, feed compost and plants, and colour fabric naturally.
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Agribusiness
African Development Bank lines up USD 5.1 billion against the fertiliser and energy shock
The Global Energy and Fertilizer Crisis Response Framework, approved on 1 September 2026, adds USD 4.1 billion in Bank lending and up to USD 960 million from the African Development Fund, lifting the 2026 lending target to about USD 12.7 billion; valid for one year, it works through four pillars as
Livestock
Brazil calf prices up 7.8% this year, ahead of fed cattle, as heifer retention cuts supply
Cepea's Mato Grosso do Sul calf index is up 7.83% from January to August against 5.89% for São Paulo fed cattle and 1.77% for lean cattle; earlier female culling has thinned the calf crop, while cautious feedlots facing uncertainty over China, Europe and the US have kept lean-cattle gains modest.
Fisheries
Have You Ever Tried Hilsa Jali Kebab? Here Is the Recipe
Hilsa jali kebab, made from deboned hilsa and potato dipped in egg and fried, is an easy new way to serve Bengal's favourite fish.
Environment
A Snake Passes an Audition to Appear at the Metropolitan Opera
A boa constrictor named Princess has been chosen after an audition to appear in the Metropolitan Opera's new staging of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte in New York.
Crops
Government Cuts Aromatic Rice Export Quota by 50 Percent
The commerce ministry has cut the approved aromatic rice export quota by half and imposed ten conditions to protect domestic supply and prices.
CropsNear-record heat units put Indiana and Kentucky corn two weeks ahead of harvest
Growing degree units in southern Indiana came within 50 of the highest on record from March to August, and with heavy rain and high night temperatures speeding maturity, agronomists at the Farm Progress Show urged growers to scout for crown rot and lodging risk and harvest those fields first.
Livestock
Laid off in the pandemic, she fed calves; now she owns a 45-cow New York organic dairy
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.
LivestockSmallest July feeder supply on record and hay down 7.9%: Peel on cattle markets
Oklahoma State economist Derrell Peel says summer's cattle-market correction masked strong fundamentals: feedlot placements at the lowest in the series since 1996, a 33.6-million-head July feeder supply that is the smallest ever, 2026 hay production down 7.9 per cent, and Mexican cattle only slowly
CropsTest soil and grain, skip phosphate you do not need, Illinois agronomists advise
With fertiliser prices high and margins thin, a Burrus Seed agronomist and a University of Illinois soil scientist say soil tests within 10 to 20 per cent of the recommendation, grain testing for real removal rates and variable-rate spreading can cut phosphorus spending without giving up yield.
Crops
Drought-hit Kansas farmers try Kernza, a perennial grain planted once every few years
After his worst winter-wheat harvest since 2017, Bryce Black is weighing perennial grains whose deep roots reach water, hold soil and store carbon; Kernza, domesticated by The Land Institute since 2001, covered just 3,511 acres in the US last year and yields 20-40% of wheat, but cuts fertiliser, fue
Crops
Khirsapat Mangoes Still Available in Chapainawabganj, and Here Is How
Farmers in Shibganj, Chapainawabganj, are experimentally harvesting Khirsapat mangoes out of season from trees grafted with Katimon, and selling them at several times the seasonal price.
Fruits
Texas expects 39m pounds of pecans, up from 32m, but a dry August is hitting kernel fill
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension pecan specialist Monte Nesbitt estimates the 2026 Texas crop at about 39 million pounds against 32 million last year, after a wet spring spread scab, downy spot and powdery mildew and a hot, dry August arrived just as kernels began to fill; wholesale prices approached $3
Fisheries
Fisheries and livestock ministry's 180-day scorecard: 27,969 water bodies listed, 180 million vaccine doses, a pangas vaccine and two tuna long-liners
A progress report sent to the Prime Minister's Office on 16 August says most of the 35 actions in the first 180-day programme were fully delivered, from cancelling leases under the 'nets to the fisher, water to the fisher' policy to 100 salt- and drought-tolerant fish farms and insurance for 3,600 a
Agribusiness
Three processors set the Bristol Bay sockeye price; small plants offer fishermen a way out
FERN and Offrange report from the world's largest salmon run, where Trident, Canfisco and Silver Bay now dominate after a decade of consolidation; base prices have barely moved since the 1980s, collapsing from US$1.15 a pound in 2022 to 50 cents in 2023, and small operators such as Kvichak Fish pay
Crops
Jute Cultivation Rises in Sharsha, Jashore, but Farmers Fear for a Fair Price
Farmers in Sharsha, Jashore, have grown jute on 503 more hectares this year, but rising costs have left them worried about getting a fair price.
World
Zero-tillage under straw on saline Sundarbans land: a decade of Australian-Indian research puts women farmers in front
At a seminar at Narendrapur Ramakrishna Mission, Australia's ACIAR and CSIRO, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya and the saline-soil research station at Canning presented ten years of work on West Bengal's cyclone-battered coast, rainwater harvesting and straw-mulched surface cropping have brough
Environment
Python Rescued From a Home in Sreemangal
The Bangladesh Wildlife Service Foundation has rescued a python from a disused pit in the compound of a house in Sreemangal, Moulvibazar.
Crops
Jute thin at the Kurigram market as growers allege cross-border sales
Despite a good harvest, supply at the Jatrapur market has fallen and traders say middlemen are buying jute at a premium and moving it to India by river.
Agrotech
Agtrinsic brings its AI crop-disease engine to South Asia's smallholders
The company is working with a team in the region on an app built around local crops, disease threats, practices and languages, delivering continuously updated disease-risk alerts and field-level guidance to farmers who rarely have early-warning tools.