AgribusinessIrish agriculture minister Martin Heydon has confirmed a €46.2 million scheme, combining EU exceptional aid with a 200 percent national top-up, to pay farmers €40 a tonne on fertiliser bought in the 2025 season, without any application, before the end of 2026.
Siba Prasad Mohanty, managing director of Hindustan Urvarak & Rasayan, argues India must secure urea's feedstock, through green ammonia at Barauni and coal gasification at Sindri, not only its output.
AgribusinessIndia's 1.7-million-tonne urea tender, watched as a benchmark for world prices, cleared at softer levels after a year in which import prices swung from $959 a tonne to about $390.
Yara Growth Ventures has joined the second close of Stenon's Series B. The German startup's portable FarmLab measures plant-available nitrogen in the field and turns it into fertilizer advice.
AgribusinessPotassium chloride prices at Brazilian ports have fallen 10 percent after nine straight weekly declines, while urea has risen 20 percent in five weeks, because the two fertilisers come from very different suppliers.
AgribusinessMarubeni Corporation chief executive Masayuki Omoto told Bangladesh's commerce minister the Japanese group is interested in modernising KAFCO, raising fertiliser output and investing in DAP and TSP production; jute diversification was also discussed.
CropsA dry room, pallets off the floor, no hooks when handling, protection from moisture, careful stacking and first-in, first-out use: advice on cutting fertiliser waste.
CropsThe Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation turns 65 on 16 October. In 2025-26 it produced 144,000 tonnes of seed, extended irrigation to 22,000 hectares and supplied 75.37 percent of the country's non-urea fertiliser.
CropsCoBank says higher corn and soybean prices are not enough to cover diesel nearly 80% above last year and a record $40 billion US fertiliser bill for 2026.
The Appellate Division chamber court has stayed a High Court order that put a status quo on the integrated policy for appointing fertiliser dealers and distributing fertiliser, under which more than one member of a family may not hold a dealership.
AgribusinessConsultants Andersons estimate farm input inflation at 7.8% in September, led by a 35% rise in fertiliser prices, while output prices fell 1.3%, widening the cost-price gap to more than 9%.
A district administration mobile court in New Chaktai and Bheramarket seized TSP, MOP and DAP, fined two traders Tk 600,000 in all and jailed one for six months.
BADC's Madarganj store holds more than three times its capacity and 57 loaded trucks wait outside, while farmers pay Tk 200 to Tk 250 a sack over the government price.
