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Court jails fifteen Sherpur fertiliser dealers over black-market sales
A Sherpur court has sent fifteen fertiliser dealers to jail over the alleged black-market sale of Tk 140 million worth of state-allocated fertiliser.
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Agricultural extension
AgrotechMacEwan pairs its $10 Agrilo soil test with VR training trialled in four countries
Agrilo VR on Meta Quest headsets walks farmers and technicians through the seven-step colorimetric test that reads 12 soil measures from a smartphone photo, and logs where trainees stumble so the protocol can be refined.
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Wait for soil below 50 degrees: Iowa State's rules for autumn anhydrous ammonia
Iowa State nutrient specialist Richard Roth says fall-applied nitrogen only pays if it is still there in spring, and points growers to the N-FACT calculator and a free residual-nitrate sampling scheme limited to 250 fields.
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ICAR signs with GIAN and Arpan Seva Sansthan to document grassroots farm innovations
A five-year MoU with the Grassroots Innovation Augmentation Network will identify, validate and mainstream farmers' innovations and traditional ecological knowledge through the KVK network, sentinel villages, village knowledge registers, a climate-resilience initiative and a possible PhD programme
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Zambian lead farmers and extension officers trained to spread climate-smart practices
In Katete and Sinda districts, the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT and Solidaridad Zambia trained 5 extension officers and 10 lead farmers, who will each reach about 35 farmers, as forecasters warn of another El Niño for 2026/27.
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Women hold the purse in 80% of Mekong farm households: and miss the training
At a workshop in Can Tho, IRRI and CIP found that women manage household finances in 80 per cent of the farms represented, yet fertiliser training has traditionally invited only one household member, usually the husband.
AgribusinessBetter Life Farming centres bring farm advice to villages around Saidpur, Bangladesh
In July 2026 the World Bank described how a young graduate running a Better Life Farming centre in Saidpur, Nilphamari, serves more than 500 farmers across five villages, part of a plan to train over 1,000 agri-entrepreneurs in Bangladesh.