LivestockThe French government will pay the interest on up to €2 billion of farm loans for fodder, fertiliser and other inputs after record heatwaves and drought damaged crops and pastures, on top of €1.3 billion in emergency aid.
AgribusinessDefaulted agricultural loans stood at Tk 18,500 crore at the end of FY2025-26, about 90 percent of it with state-owned banks, in a year when farm lending reached Tk 42,834 crore.
AgribusinessBRAC Bank will finance climate-resilient farming, PCC&MEC will carry loans to farmers, and AgriPulse will provide technology for data management and monitoring under a new partnership.
At the South African Future of Food Conference, lenders and funders said capital exists for farmers but unmanaged risk, missing collateral and business readiness keep it from reaching them.
AgribusinessAfter two lean years many US grain farms have burned through the working capital built in better times, a Farm Credit Mid-America lender says, as strong land values prop up balance sheets but not cash flow.
BangladeshMeeting a Bangladesh Krishak Samity delegation at Bangabhaban, President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said a President's Agriculture Award would be launched for farm innovation and called for an effective marketing system so farmers get a fair price.
CropsThe declaration brings land-revenue waivers, crop-loan restructuring and a stay on farm-loan recovery, while GPS-tagged crop surveys will decide cash aid for farmers hit by an 18.8% rainfall deficit.
CropsAfter walking through dried-up soybean and tur fields in Washim district, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said a government order releasing relief under 'Trigger 1' of the state's drought code would be issued the next day.
AgribusinessUSDA is making its fast-track direct-loan process permanent and cutting paperwork for guaranteed loans, while Farm Bureau says the loan caps themselves need Congress to act.
The bank has stopped new applications for its loan-plus-grant scheme for historically disadvantaged farmers for the rest of 2026/27, after demand outstripped the R325 million annual grant.
At a government grower imbizo, the deputy trade minister promised talks with lenders on finance suited to cane growers, and more predictable reviews of the sugar import tariff.
A Vadodara start-up part-owned by Nabard has onboarded more than 300,000 Kisan Credit Card applications through cooperative banks and regional rural banks since December 2025, replacing paper forms and three-to-four-week waits with Aadhaar checks, land-record validation and crop-based loan limits.
An ADB technical note on Heifer International's work finds that under 10 per cent of global climate finance reaches local level and only about 5 per cent of extension services effectively reach women; in Bangladesh 101 women-led cooperatives now link 133,034 smallholders to finance, insurance and ma
