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Author: Maruine Jones
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Reporting from earlier editions of The Agrotech Daily. Figures, prices and policies may have changed since.
- Policy & trade, GlobalNavigating agricultural trade policies 2023: guiding farmers forwardTariffs, import and export rules and trade agreements shape farmers' costs, markets and prices, and farmers can respond by staying informed, diversifying markets and using crop insurance.
- Markets, TelanganaLockdown rumours and their effect on Telangana labourersFearing another Covid-19 lockdown, migrant farm labourers have been leaving the chilli-growing areas of Telangana's Bhadradri district for their hometowns during the harvest.
- Inputs & crop science, Global4 worst challenges to the poultry industry after COVID-19Explains four challenges facing poultry production: food safety, antibiotic resistance, emerging and re-emerging diseases, and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Inputs & crop science, Tamil NaduTamil Nadu Agricultural University to collaborate with Hi-Fi Biotech on mass multiplication of banana hybridsTNAU has signed an MoU with Hi-Fi Biotech India of Salem to mass multiply its nematode-tolerant banana hybrid CO2 as tissue culture plantlets for growers.
- Markets, IndiaAs Kenyan tea floods global market, Indian planters hope for price recovery at homeIndian tea planters hope for firmer prices at home as cheaper Kenyan tea, at around $1.8 to $2 a kg, gains ground in global markets.
- Policy & trade, IndiaIndia endorsed ‘support per farmer rule’ at WTO farm subsidy negotiationIndia told WTO farm subsidy negotiations that domestic support should be measured per farmer rather than as a sum total, and proposed a review of per-farmer support since 1995.
- Policy & trade, RajasthanRajasthan government firm in its stand with farmers against Centre’s farm lawsRajasthan's Congress government decided to pass a Bill on October 31 against the Centre's three farm laws, while the state BJP said it would oppose it.
- Policy & trade, RajasthanCultivators in trouble as banks unwilling to fund PM Kusum YojanaIn Rajasthan, only 15 of 170 farmers who signed deals with discoms under PM Kusum have started their solar plants, as banks are unwilling to lend.
- Soil, water & climate, IndiaIIT Madras-MIT collaborate to develop technique to utilize agricultural-industrial wasteIIT Madras and MIT researchers are working on ways to use agricultural and industrial waste, such as biomass ash, in lower-impact cement binders for construction.
- Markets, United KingdomUK wheat markets rally: global supply tightness and currency shifts drive 18-month highsUK wheat prices have risen to their highest in over a year on weaker Black Sea, Australian and US supply prospects and a soft pound that has lifted export demand.