BRICS should turn digital agriculture into a food-security public good
By Sayanta Ghosh, Senior Associate Fellow, Land Resources Division, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). 18 September 2026, New Delhi: At the BRICS
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Punjab and Haryana Farmers Set to Receive First Soil Carbon Payments
18 September 2026, New Delhi: More than 2,500 smallholder farmers in Punjab and Haryana are set to receive digital payments for adopting
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Punjab Farmers Block Rail Tracks at Five Sites Over MSP Guarantee
18 September 2026, Punjab: Farmers under the banners of the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha and the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee blocked railway tracks
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Gene Map of Mustard’s “Self-Rejection” System Could Fast-Track India’s Hybrid Oilseed Breeding
16 September 2026, Gandhinagar: Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN), working with the ICAR-Directorate of Rapeseed-Mustard Research (ICAR-DRMR) in
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India Corn Production Lowered as Weak Monsoon Weighs on Kharif Crop
15 September 2026, New Delhi: USDA estimates India’s 2026/27 corn production at 50.0 million metric tons, down 4 percent from last month’s
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Dryland Congress 2026: Global South Pushes Dryland Agriculture From Ideas to Scale
14 September 2026, New Delhi: The Dryland Congress 2026 concluded in New Delhi with a renewed push to move dryland agriculture from
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Punjab Farmers Plan Five-Day Protest Over MSP, Power and Fertilizer
14 September 2026, Chandigarh: A Punjab farmers’ group announced on September 13 that it will launch five days of demonstrations starting September
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India Shifts Pesticide Industry to Digital-Only Licensing and Compliance from September 15
14 September 2026, New Delhi: From September 15, 2026, every pesticide manufacturer, importer, seller and distributor operating in India must move to
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Punjab Farmers End Week-Long Chandigarh Protest After Government Accepts Demands
14 September 2026, Chandigarh: Farmer leaders called off a seven-day sit-in at the Chandigarh-Mohali border on September 7 after reaching an agreement
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India’s Kharif Sowing Falls Below Last Year as Weak Monsoon Hits Rice
12 September 2026, New Delhi: India’s total area sown under kharif crops this season has fallen below last year’s level, driven mainly
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