OpinionIn Naya Diganta, Dr Mohammad Mozammel Hoque calls for fair prices, bargaining power, disaster protection, credit and subsidy for real cultivators, and rural schooling and health care to be put at the centre of farm policy. The views are the writer's own.
AgribusinessAverage US farm household income was 60% higher in 2023 than in 2019 and farm net worth 64% higher, driven mainly by income from farming rather than off-farm wages, an ERS chart shows.
VegetablesAdvised by the agriculture office, more than a hundred farmers in Malgara, Pekua, turned failing paddy land over to cucumbers; Cox's Bazar has 126 hectares under the crop this season and sales of Tk 16.87 crore so far.
AgribusinessAbout $11 billion in direct assistance, $10 billion for economic losses and $1.1 billion for winter freeze damage, is being pushed into a defense spending package, but payments could take months.
CropsAbout 47 hectares of sugarcane were planted in Sharsha, Jashore, this season, mostly in Putkhali near Benapole, where farmers say a bigha costing Tk 30,000 to 40,000 can earn Tk 1.5 to 2 lakh.
CropsA PG Economics assessment, released in Manila with ISAAA and CropLife Asia, estimates GM crops added nearly $385 billion to farm income in 1996-2024, more than half in developing countries.
OpinionIn a Financial Express column, ICRIER's Ashok Gulati and Subhodeep Basu call for capital subsidies under PM-Kusum for agri-photovoltaics, a ban on ground-mounted solar on farmland and solar cooperatives modelled on Operation Flood.
AgribusinessA Farm Journal survey of 1,200 growers for the National Corn Growers Association and the American Soybean Association found nearly two-thirds still concerned about the farm economy despite the recent rise in grain prices.
AgribusinessThe consultant's model arable farm would lose £83/ha from farming in 2026 without £122/ha of SFI income, and it forecasts UK farm income falling to about £6.1bn after a drought costing £1bn-£1.5bn.
A new Farm to Stay Grant Program opening in November will help US farmers and ranchers turn working farms into overnight stays or on-farm experiences, as farm-stay earnings grow.
CropsA Food Standards Agency update says a UK-EU sanitary and phytosanitary deal covering plant protection products is advanced but delayed after a change of government, while a CropLife UK study puts a no-transition 'cliff edge' at 7-11 percent of farm income.
With a bigha costing Tk 20,000-26,000 to grow and yielding about 10 maunds at roughly Tk 3,000 a maund, the fibre alone leaves little profit; traders now pay Tk 10,000-15,000 for the same field's sticks, which have moved beyond cooking fuel to fencing, cattle sheds and hawking in town.
Basic Payment Scheme and Greening money has reached most Scottish farmers and crofters since the window opened on 1 September, the agriculture minister says; recipients of the £21.4 million Future Farming Investment Scheme must file their evidence by 30 September to be paid.
