AgrotechAgriScience Program funding under the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership will adapt the Toronto company's computer-vision system, built for apple growers, to estimate crop load, spot disease early and forecast yield in grape vineyards.
The Consolidated Central Valley Table Grape Pest and Disease Control District's board authorised industry-generated reactionary funds on 21 August to cover a US$1.7 million shortfall in CDFA's glassy-winged sharpshooter surveillance and treatment programme after federal and state funding was cut yea
FruitsKamruzzaman Pradhania, a young entrepreneur in Chandpur Sadar upazila, began growing grapes on a rooftop during the Covid years and by April 2026 had three vineyard plots with, he said, about 85 varieties from 18 countries.
FruitsA Jagonews24 lifestyle feature of 4 January 2026 said eating grapes in winter supports immunity, digestion, the heart and the skin; nutrition tables and health authorities show grapes are a healthy fruit, but a modest source of vitamin C and fibre and no protection on their own against colds.
FruitsIn Meghadal, a hill village of Sherpur's Sreebardi upazila, entrepreneur Mizanur Rahman was growing about 50 foreign grape varieties on 150 plants in August 2025, with green grapes sold locally at Tk 250-300 a kg, the grower told reporters.
FruitsFarmers in Jhenaidah who planted avocado, longan and grapes as an experiment were moving towards commercial cultivation in July 2025 after good harvests. The DAE counted 2.25 hectares of grapes, 2 of avocado and 1 of rambutan in the district in 2024-25.
AgrotechScientists in Georgia, a country with an 8,000-year winemaking tradition, set out under the IX Millennium project to find grape varieties able to survive Mars's radiation, cold and thin air.
