EnvironmentNearly half of Ambesavali village in Maharashtra's Beed district has left to find work as drought follows the October 2025 floods; the state has declared drought in 265 of its talukas.
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.
FisheriesWith ICAR-CIFE's help, a hatchery at Kanase near Pune bred about 2.5 lakh striped murrel hatchlings and 45,000 fingerlings using an improved peptide hormone, meeting demand from farm-pond owners.
Government data show the average retail price rising from Rs 29.50 a kg on 1 June to Rs 53.78 on 17 September and wholesale from Rs 22.60 to Rs 45.68; a shortfall in Maharashtra's summer crop and a late kharif harvest are blamed, and buffer-stock sales at about Rs 35 a kg and export curbs are among
FruitsIn the 2026 season, sharp day-night temperature swings in winter and extra heat in April and May wrecked the 'King of Mangoes' in India's Maharashtra; a government-backed survey seen by Reuters put losses in Devgad at 85-90%, while the Iran war cut exports to the Gulf.
