Latest agriculture news for today September 26,2025
India's efforts to boost global food security and domestic sustainability through new government initiatives and international partnerships.
Latest agriculture news for Friday, September 26, 2025, focuses on India's efforts to boost global food security and domestic sustainability through new government initiatives and international partnerships. Meanwhile, crop prices in India are hitting multi-year lows, and a monsoon-related crisis threatens the upcoming Rabi season in Maharashtra.
- National Water Security Initiative: The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare, along with the Ministry of Jal Shakti, has launched an initiative to improve water conservation. It mandates that a percentage of funds from the MGNREGA scheme be used for water-related works.
- GST reforms: The government has lowered the Goods and Services Tax on agricultural equipment, including tractors, harvesting machinery, and composting machines, from 12% to 5%.
- Biofuels initiative: A new bamboo-based biorefinery has been inaugurated in Assam to produce ethanol. This is part of the government's plan to diversify feedstocks for biofuels beyond maize and sugarcane.
- Food grain management: The Department of Food and Public Distribution (DFPD) and the Food Corporation of India (FCI) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to modernize food grain management.
- The fourth edition of the World Food India conference is taking place in New Delhi from September 25 to 28.
- Addressing the event, Prime Minister Narendra Modi invited global investors to the food processing sector, highlighting India's strengths in diversity, demand, and scale.
- Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Patrushev also attended, discussing a potential BRICS grain exchange to boost agricultural trade.
- Falling crop prices: The prices of onions, pulses, soybeans, and cotton in India have fallen to multi-year lows. This is attributed to increased imports of pulses and cooking oils, a drop in onion exports, and bumper crops internationally.
- Maharashtra crop crisis: Farm activists in Maharashtra are warning of a potential Rabi crop crisis after recent floods washed away fertile soil and damaged Kharif crops.
- Mustard farm initiative: AWL Agri Business Ltd., the Solvent Extractors' Association of India (SEA), and Solidaridad Regional Expertise Centre (SREC) are partnering to establish 3,000 mustard model farms by August 2027. The project, Regenerative Mustard Mission, aims to boost self-reliance and build climate resilience by promoting regenerative practices.
- Cameroon's cassava plan: The country is promoting cassava cultivation to reduce its dependence on imported wheat and to capitalize on the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
- India-Australia organic trade: India and Australia have signed a Mutual Recognition Arrangement to facilitate trade in organic products.
- Forest cover in India: A new government report indicates that India's very dense forest cover grew by 22.7% over a decade, signaling successful conservation efforts.
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