International

Climate change and environmental issues put one billion children at risk globally: UNICEF

Climate change and environmental issues put one billion children at risk globally: UNICEF

Climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss are putting around 1 billion children...

More than one billion people at high risk from climate change worldwide: World Bank

More than one billion people at high risk from climate change worldwide: World Bank

A World Bank report highlights that 1.2 billion people are at risk from climate...

World Bank to support 4 lakh farmers in Kerala

World Bank to support 4 lakh farmers in Kerala

The World Bank approved a $200 million project to help Kerala farmers adapt to climate...

Indonesia plans to import 1 million tons of rice from India as harvest delays

Indonesia plans to import 1 million tons of rice from India as harvest delays

Indonesia’s 2024 rice production is projected to fall by 2.43% from last year, reaching...

BRICS Grain Exchange: A Potential Game-Changer for Global Trade Amidst Challenges

BRICS Grain Exchange: A Potential Game-Changer for Global Trade Amidst Challenges

The five founding BRICS nations - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa...

Failure to act now may cause a temperature rise of 3.1°C, UN report warns

Failure to act now may cause a temperature rise of 3.1°C, UN report warns

According to the report, the 1.5°C goal will be gone within a few years unless nations...

ICRISAT appoints Dr Himanshu Pathak as Director General Designate

ICRISAT appoints Dr Himanshu Pathak as Director General Designate

Dr Pathak’s official tenure as Director General will begin next year, as ICRISAT...

Japan Faces Rice Crisis as It Restricted Production to Maintain High Prices

Japan Faces Rice Crisis as It Restricted Production to Maintain High Prices

The Japanese government’s policy of restricting rice production to maintain high...

FAO and IFAD launch 'Global Family Farming Forum' to support sustainable agrifood systems

FAO and IFAD launch 'Global Family Farming Forum' to support sustainable agrifood systems

The joint FAO-IFAD event highlights their contribution in transforming agrifood...

Water crisis puts more than half of the world’s food production at risk by 2050: Report

Water crisis puts more than half of the world’s food production at risk by 2050: Report

In a landmark report, The Economics of Water: Valuing the Hydrological Cycle as...

India ranks 105th in Global Hunger Index, trails behind Nepal and Bangladesh

India ranks 105th in Global Hunger Index, trails behind Nepal and Bangladesh

India ranks 105th out of 127 countries in the 2024 Global Hunger Index, indicating...

Russian wheat price at three months high amid drought and supply cuts

Russian wheat price at three months high amid drought and supply cuts

Recently the Russian regions of Oryol declared an emergency on extreme drought conditions....

Global Market Sees Across-the-Board Increase in Major Food Commodity Prices in September, Sugar Prices up by 10 Percent

Global Market Sees Across-the-Board Increase in Major Food Commodity Prices in September, Sugar Prices up by 10 Percent

The FAO Sugar Price Index registered the largest increase in September, rising by...

75 percent of farmers are open to innovation to combat climate change, global survey reveals

75 percent of farmers are open to innovation to combat climate change, global survey reveals

The Farmer Voice survey, commissioned by Bayer, gathered insights from over 2,000...

Global Rice Production Still Set for Record, Despite USDA Downgrade

Global Rice Production Still Set for Record, Despite USDA Downgrade

Despite a recent downward revision by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), global...

To Boost Agricultural Exports Russia Aims to Expand Arable Land

To Boost Agricultural Exports Russia Aims to Expand Arable Land

In an effort to strengthen its position as a global agricultural powerhouse and...

Trump Imposes New 10% Global Tariff, Says No Change to India-US Deal

The Supreme Court of the United States struck down Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs. Within hours, Trump imposed a fresh 10%...

International

Union Budget 2026–27: What It Signals For India’s Agricultural Trade

In an environment marked by geopolitical tensions, supply chain disruptions and tightening sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) standards,...

Opinion

US Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump’s Global Tariffs, Relief For India And Other Nations

The US Supreme Court has struck down President Donald Trump’s sweeping “Liberation Day” global tariffs in a 6-3 ruling, finding that...

International

U.S. Government Announces $40 Million Award to CIMMYT to Bolster Global Food Security

​A renewed $40 million commitment from the U.S. Government to advance science-driven solutions for global food security.

International

Leads Connect Launch AI-enabled ICCRI and Agri Intelligence Platform KEDAR–PARVATI

KEDAR–PARVATI is a next-generation large-scale intelligence platform for risk management. KEDAR stands for Knowledge Engineering &...

Agritech

Cotton Imports Surge Amid Production Dip And Trade Deal Concerns

Over the past 16 months, India has imported 7.6 million bales of cotton worth Rs 21,000 crore, a significant share of which comprises...

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