CropsAt the Rabi Campaign 2026 conference, India's agriculture minister announced a 'Khet Bachao Abhiyan' soil campaign from 22 October, over Rs 1,200 crore for ten states and monthly Centre-state reviews.
CropsIndia's Agriculture Secretary Atish Chandra told a national rabi conference that El Niño could cut foodgrain output from rainfed areas this winter, and set out priorities from crop diversification to farmer IDs.
The upazila agriculture office in Jaldhaka, Nilphamari, is issuing genuine farmers a 'fertiliser card' carrying their photograph, national ID number and land holding, to bring order and transparency to fertiliser distribution.
Sirajganj's district agricultural technology extension committee met to set its rabi 2026-27 work plan, taking up sugarcane, stevia, year-round jackfruit and BRRI dhan115 black rice.
The agriculture department in Kurigram will distribute fertiliser in the coming Rabi season against a soil health protection card.
After protests, warehouse looting and an assault on an extension officer during aman, the DAE will update the 2014 list of the district's 584,000 farmers and issue temporary cards carrying photo, NID and landholding; deputy director Abdullah Al Mamun says NID-only distribution let non-farmers take f
The agriculture ministry's allocation letter of 14 September covers October demand in full, 70,052 tonnes of TSP, 150,910 of DAP and 93,654 of MOP, with all TSP from BADC and 1,000 tonnes of DAP from BCIC; Bogura gets 4,540 tonnes of MOP and Rajshahi 3,360, and early imports, stocks and field moni
Chaired by DAE deputy director Md Monju Alam Sarker at Khamarbari on 7 September, the District Agricultural Technical Extension Committee approved the Kharif-2 plan and agreed on crop and variety selection, assured seed supply and market monitoring for the coming Rabi season; 40 attended, including
CropsMd Tamjid Hossain grew Vietnamese mustard on 15 decimals and quinoa on about 13 decimals in Nohata union of Mohammadpur upazila, Magura. Jagonews24 reported on 7 March 2026 that it was the first time either crop was grown in the upazila and that local farmers were taking an interest.
