AgrotechThe startup grows isolated plant cells in culture, picks the promising lines with automated screening and regenerates only those into plants, which it expects to save at least five times the cost.
CropsEthiopia's coffee regions lie in the south and south-west, far from the renewed conflict in the north, and the export route through Djibouti looks protected, so analysts at Expana and Rabobank expect little or no effect on supply or prices.
EnvironmentA community weather network in Kerala's Wayanad recorded an average 29.2°C in early September, 1.9°C above the three previous years, raising worries for coffee, pepper, arecanut and paddy farmers.
OpinionRanjeet Kumar Sahani of the Foundation for Ecological Security argues that pushing the Jenu Kuruba out of the forest let lantana spread and drove elephants into coffee estates.
CropsFAO marked the first International Coffee Day, designated by the UN General Assembly in March, pointing to the up to 25 million farmers, mostly smallholders, who grow a crop traded at more than $34 billion a year.
On International Coffee Day, FAO describes how washing stations in Rwanda and a reformed cooperative in Kenya's Baringo County are raising the quality of smallholder coffee and the earnings that come with it.
CropsAbout 25 million households, most of them smallholders in developing countries, grow around 80 per cent of the world's coffee; the value chain from picking the cherries to green coffee, export and roasting.
CropsDepartment of Agricultural Extension figures show coffee imports rising from 264 tonnes in 2012 to 1,745 tonnes in 2025, while commercial coffee farming has spread from the three hill districts to Tangail, Rangpur and Nilphamari.
CropsMarked on 1 October to recognise everyone in the coffee chain from farmer to company, the day was declared by the International Coffee Organization in 2014.
AgrotechThe Swiss climate-tech start-up turns crop residues into biochar in small reactors near where they are produced and returns it to soils, and will use the money to make its system a repeatable hardware and software product.
Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs Minister Saching Prue called on Agriculture Minister Mohammad Amin Ur Rashid at the Secretariat on Sunday, seeking training for hill farmers in modern techniques and an end to tobacco and narcotic-plant cultivation in remote areas; the two ministries agreed to work tog
Research in Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda, set out in CABI Working Paper 38 by Dr Morris Akiri, finds commercial banks provide about 7% of formal farm credit; unrealistic interest rates, monthly repayments that ignore the harvest cycle and land-title collateral exclude women an
Consultations in Addis Ababa and Jimma identified forest coffee, beekeeping, spices, bamboo and timber plantations as the most promising ways to reward communities in southwest Ethiopia for protecting intact forest.
