CropsAkhaura farmer tries black rice on two bigha after watching YouTube
Saimon Molla of Birchandrapur village in Brahmanbaria's Akhaura has planted black rice on two bigha as a trial; the ears are out and he hopes for 16-18 maunds a bigha.
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CropsUttar Pradesh farmers book 200,000 buds of new early sugarcane CoS.23232 in five minutes
The early-maturing sugarcane variety CoS.23232, released in September, sold out its first online allocation of single-bud planting material within minutes, and the state's cane research council is speeding up multiplication with tissue culture.
CropsUttar Pradesh approves four new sugarcane varieties as Co.0238 falls to red rot
The state's variety release sub-committee cleared three varieties from its own research council and one from ICAR-IISR Lucknow, adopted eight nationally notified varieties and will phase out six old ones.
CropsEmbrapa offers four new yerba mate cultivars, yielding up to 24 tonnes a hectare
Brazil's Embrapa Florestas has opened licensing of four yerba mate cultivars, BRS 408, BRS 409, BRS BLD Aupaba and BRS BLD Yari, bred for different yields, shade tolerance and flavour.
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Black sugarcane, released as BSRI Akh 49, doubles yields at lower cost in Gazipur trials and opens a new chewing-cane market
The Bangladesh Sugarcrop Research Institute has released the Philippine black sugarcane as BSRI Akh 49; Bashundhara Agro Chemical Industries' research farm at Kaliakair has grown it experimentally on 20 decimals since January 2025 with a new planting method, while Gazipur's cane area stands at 1,603
CropsBSMRAU develops BU Soybean-5, a waterlogging-tolerant soybean for the coast
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University said in August 2024 that its new BU Soybean-5 ripens in 75 to 85 days, survives seven days of waterlogging and has the largest seeds of any soybean variety in Bangladesh.