Once bamboo fences and nets were removed from the Kata canal at Komorpur in Keshabpur, Jashore, water drained from Padma beel and nearby beels, saving 600 bighas of aman; 4,000 metres of banned China duari nets were seized.
Netrokona grew jute on 2,840 hectares this season against a 4,510-hectare target; high wages, a lack of water for retting and poor prices are pushing farmers towards vegetables and mustard.
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.
IslamThe Prophet married Khadija around 595 CE after his second trade journey to Syria; early sources give her age as 40, 28, 30 or 35, and the mahr was twenty young camels.
CookingMaithili-style goat curry from Bihar uses no onion or garlic: the meat is marinated in yoghurt, ginger and spices, cooked, then fried in ghee with cardamom, cloves, cinnamon and asafoetida.
CropsICAR-CTCRI in Thiruvananthapuram signed an agreement with Sugam Organics, which will source tubers and make fried cassava snacks without artificial colours.
In Barishal's joltoba, balls of ground small shrimp go straight into simmering coconut-milk curry instead of being fried; Shahnaz Setu gives the recipe.
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.
About 1.4 billion hectares grow food that is never eaten, FAO says, and the world has made no apparent progress on food losses since 2015; a new interactive Food Loss Index map was released.
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.
CropsThe Indian agrochemical firm told stock exchanges on 25 September that Fujita targets leaf, nodal and neck blast, while Wetcit Neo is a plant-oil adjuvant for better spray coverage.
OrganicAt the Chico State University Farm, finished compost is agitated in aerated water and the extract is sent through drip irrigation to support soil fungi and bacteria.
CropsThe Department of Agriculture counts 223,214 farmers and 249,028 hectares affected in 14 of 18 regions, and warns losses will rise as a very strong El Nino is forecast from October.
HealthMumbai interventional cardiologist Dr Parin Sangoi says not to waste time guessing whether it is gas or a heart attack but to call emergency services at once, and never to drive yourself to hospital.
