CropsDhanuka launches Polin, a new-mode fungicide against rice leaf and neck blast
Developed with Japan's Nippon Soda, the FRAC 52 fungicide is being rolled out in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh at 100 ml an acre.
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CropsIRRI and Nottingham team up to breed rice that keeps yielding in the heat
The BBSRC-funded Temp-Resist Rice project will search traditional varieties and wild relatives for traits that protect pollen and grain formation at high temperatures.
CropsIRRI and Nottingham launch project to breed rice that keeps yielding in rising heat
The BBSRC-backed Temp-Resist Rice project will search traditional varieties and wild relatives for heat-tolerance traits, focusing on pollen failure at flowering.
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Rice scientists are the hidden hands behind food security, secretary tells BRRI workshop
At a Gazipur workshop on the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute's progress and plans, agriculture secretary Md Selim Khan said the government would give talented agricultural scientists their due.
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Refused land by his father, Dinajpur youth leases a plot to grow Vietnamese black rice
Rakibul Haque, 28, of Bochaganj in Dinajpur has planted a Vietnamese black rice variety on 33 decimals of leased land, the first time the crop has been grown in the upazila.
CropsIrrigators and One Nation want Murray-Darling environmental water opened to summer crops as rice output falls another 22 percent
SunRice has shed 80 mill jobs and MP David Farley wants 75 percent of available environmental water sold to irrigators before planting; the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder says its entitlements are cut by the same allocation rules in a dry year.
EnvironmentPunjab's groundwater crisis is deepening inequality: 76 percent of blocks over-exploited and big farmers reap the gains, study finds
An Economic and Political Weekly paper by Sandeep Kaur of the Central University of Punjab finds large farmers with deeper borewells earn higher returns while small and marginal farmers watch shallow wells run dry and buy water from neighbours.
CropsIndia registers its first home-discovered insecticide, pioxaniliprole, among a batch of new crop-protection approvals
The 476th Registration Committee meeting cleared PI Industries' pioxaniliprole for rice, chilli, tomato and Bengal gram alongside new formulations from Willowood, UPL, FMC, Chemley and Seedlings, with MRL, shelf-life and pollinator conditions attached.
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Chattogram transplants 179,660 hectares of aman after the floods, almost 100% of target
DAE figures put aman transplanting in Chattogram at 179,660 of a 179,980-hectare target, with Cox's Bazar at 99 per cent, Feni at 66,837 hectares and Noakhali and Lakshmipur beyond target; officials credit favourable rain, timely seedlings and quick post-flood support to farmers.
CropsIndian rice lines carrying four drought genes yield 36-82% more under water stress
Breeding lines that stack four drought-tolerance QTLs into the variety DRR Dhan 50 by marker-assisted conventional crossing out-yielded their parent by 36 to 82 per cent under drought in a study by Malla Reddy University, ICAR-IIRR, Central Agricultural University and ICAR-NIPB, a route that needs
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Rice output forecast to fall 750,000 tonnes in 2026-27 with all three seasons down
Calculations based on Department of Agricultural Extension data put 2026-27 rice production at 36.9 million tonnes against 37.65 million in 2025-26, with aus acreage down 100,000 hectares; the DAE director general says about 5.9 million hectares of aman are in good condition and expects a bumper cro
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Narail harvests 81 per cent of 9,107 hectares of aus rice, targets 23,597 tonnes
Harvesting and threshing are in full swing in Sadar, Lohagara and Kalia upazilas; the Department of Agricultural Extension expects a bumper crop if the weather holds, with free government incentives drawing more farmers to aus each year.
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Paddy heads two weeks after planting: 50 Bandarban farmers blame the seed, fear lost crop
In Baishari union of Naikhongchhari, 45-50 kani of rice sown from packets labelled "Ranjit Paijam" set panicles 10-15 days after planting; farmers want the seed tested and compensation, while the seed company blames their methods.