USDA's 23rd Crop Progress report of the season records the first corn harvest of 2026, 5% across seven states, while the share of the crop rated good to excellent fell to 56%, the lowest of the year and 12 points below last year.
The FAO Food Price Index averaged 133.3 points in August, up 1.9 percent on July, with sugar up 11.9 percent and wheat 15 percent above a year earlier.
Pakistan's biofortified zinc wheat programme grew from 64,000 hectares in 2019 to more than 3.1 million in 2023, reaching 3.3 million farming households, after the province of Punjab paid for breeder seed and cleared the certification bottleneck.
With wheat output at roughly a third of pre-conflict levels and livestock herds halved, the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT sets out six priorities for Syria's agricultural recovery, from cereal and seed systems to rangelands and cooperatives.
CropsUSDA's Acreage report of 30 June 2026 put US corn plantings at 95.3 million acres and soybean at 85.4 million, while corn stocks on 1 June stood 14% above a year earlier.
Wheat is currently grown on 2 lakh 88 thousand hectares across Bangladesh, the agriculture minister told parliament, setting out plans to expand it.
Scientists at the Bangladesh Wheat and Maize Research Institute in Dinajpur have developed five wheat varieties that yield far more than the national average and tolerate heat, drought and salt.
CropsUSDA's long-term projections show the eight major American row crops losing six million acres over the next decade as tight margins persist.
CropsAmerican farmers intended to plant 95.3 million acres of corn in 2026, down 3%, and 84.7 million acres of soybean, up 4%, according to USDA's Prospective Plantings report of 31 March 2026.
Prolonged cold and dense fog are reddening boro seedbeds, raising late blight risk in potatoes and cutting yields of beans and mustard across Bangladesh.
CookingThe ancestor of butter garlic naan, ranked the world's best bread by TasteAtlas, was once served only at the courts of the Delhi sultans and the Mughals; in a BBC Bangla report of 3 January 2026, historian Neha Vermani and chef Suvir Saran traced how it reached ordinary tables.
CropsKartik (17 October to 15 November) is when aman paddy is cut and the winter crops go in. Here is the government's Agricultural Information Service checklist for wheat, mustard, potato, sugarcane, pulses and vegetables, with its seed and fertiliser rates.
CookingA soft loaf can be baked at home without an oven in a covered, sand-lined pot on the stove, using flour, yeast, sugar, salt, milk powder, oil, lukewarm water and one egg yolk.
