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A weak start to India's southwest monsoon is already affecting Kharif sowing, with rainfall 38% below normal and the sharpest planted-area declines reported in pulses and cotton.
India’s cumin exports weakened sharply in FY26 as Chinese demand collapsed and West Asian trade routes faced disruption. The trade is warning of further pressure on prices, stocks…
FAO data cited by Bapanas show Indonesia has become Southeast Asia’s largest rice producer and the world’s fourth largest. Rising output and stocks are strengthening the country’s position…
Indonesia says intensified supervision has pushed almost 90% of palm oil companies to raise the fresh fruit bunch prices they pay to farmers.
Australian beef shipments to China are about to face an extra 55% duty after Beijing’s 205,000-tonne safeguard quota was exhausted much earlier than many exporters expected.
India is working with banks and insurers to widen farm credit and crop-insurance protection before El Nino can disrupt the monsoon and rural incomes.
S&P Global Energy argues that stronger demand for biofuels, especially corn ethanol and E15, could support farm incomes and keep more US cropland in production.
Telangana has nearly tripled rice production over the past decade, but the state is now struggling with chronic surpluses, procurement pressure and the risks of monocropping.
India needs to sharply improve oilseed yields and tap alternative oil sources if it wants to cut edible-oil imports over the rest of the decade, according to the…