The state of Kerala in southern India is creating efficiency in paddy fields one step at a time through drone farming. According to Manorama Online on October 15, 2025, farmers are spraying, applying fertilizer and plowing in a fraction of traditional duration. One such farmer in Malikkayal, Kottayam district employed a drone carrying 50 kg of fertilizer to finish a 5-day task...

The U.S.’ crustacean summer may be gone but the spiny lobster season in San Diego, south California has just begun with weekend giveaways. In the October 12, 2025 weekend, Catalina Offshore company slashed a whopping 66.7% off its usual retail cost for the crustacean.  The company’s $11.99 a pound (lb) two-day sale fast depleted the stock before normal rates could...

Senegal on October 12, 2025 signed an agricultural development deal with Japan, strengthening PM Ousmane Sonko’s aim in achieving food sovereignty by 2027. The agreement will channel 13.48 billion West African CFA Francs ($24 million) into agriculture and vocational training. According to the Ministry of Economy, Planning & Cooperation, an 892.8-million CFA Francs ($1.58 million) portion will foster farming mechanization....

High crushing in Brazil, potentially low ethanol conversion in India and uptick production in Thailand have brought raw sugar pricing to its knees. Sugar #11 or bulk sugar for internal trading lost by 3.04% daily in New York on October 13, 2025, to a 21-day low.  White sugar #5 in London’s futures similarly shed 0.8% daily to plunge to a near-lowest quotation in...

The PH’s Department of Agriculture (DA) on October 13, 2025 ended an avian flu-related import ban, reigniting the Philippines-New Zealand poultry trade. Reports of the end of the scourge in the Kiwi country prompted the PH to resume imports after 10 months. Manila stated that it was now ready to order poultry products, live chicks and even bird semen from Auckland. This...

Traditional kiwifruit importer India has got an import price break amid a bumper 2025 harvest in major origin, Iran. According to the Indian Rice Exporters Federation (IREF), availability of Iran’s kiwi supplies in India has risen by 150% this season. Consequently, sample retail sites in India were reporting kiwi prices at 150 rupees ($1.69) per 440 g. This was down from 160 rupees...

Days before the October 25, 2025 general election, Ivory Coast on the 9th escalated its farm-gate cocoa price to 2,550 CFA Francs ($4.50) a kg. After waiting since September, the government finally increased this 2025-26 main crop rate by 14% over 2024-25 mid-crop’s. The last update in April 2024 had upped the mid-crop’s producer price to 2,200 CFA Francs ($3.60) a kg. This...

Despite the war entering its 1325th day early October 2025, Ukraine has seen its potato yields return to average while prices collapse.  According to the Scottish Farmer, weekly prices of table potatoes are $100 down to $185-200 a tonne but still above 2024’s rates. Because of a quality hit from a few weeks of drought and fusarium wilt, some exporters are shipping 2024 reserves at...

Results of a lobster survey by the Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) in summer 2025 show lobstermen under considerable economic sway. This first lobster industry survey since 2008 stemmed from the controversial attempt to raise the minimum haul size by 1 1/16th inches. Of the 4700 commercial license holders, 29% responded to the survey inclusive of 1,300 lobster harvesters and 66 dealers. ...

Keen to boost production and advance livelihoods, Kenya on October 8, 2025 proposed a farmer-accessible global auction for local produce, especially coffee. The Cabinet Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture & Livestock Development Mutahi Kagwe isolated coffee as the starting point. In the first rank of priorities is the digitization of the Nairobi Coffee Exchange (NCE) before other crop platforms...