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Third Advance Estimates: record foodgrain output of 3,539.59 lakh tonnes in 2024-25

India's foodgrain production in 2024-25 is estimated at a record 3,539.59 lakh tonnes, about 6.5% higher than 2023-24, according to the Third Advance Estimates released by the Agriculture Ministry on 28 May 2025.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Mizoram

MoS George Kurian visits Mizoram to review fisheries; Integrated Aqua Park at Zawlnuam proposed

Union MoS for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying and Minority Affairs George Kurian visited Aizawl, Mizoram on 24 May 2025, inspecting fish ponds in Lengpui and the proposed site of a Fish Farmers' Training Centre under the North Eastern Council.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India

Fisheries Secretaries Conference 2025 reviews PMMSY, FIDF and PM-MKSSY

The Department of Fisheries held the Fisheries Secretaries Conference 2025 and a national workshop on technology in aquaculture in New Delhi on 23 May 2025 to review PMMSY, FIDF and PM-MKSSY.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Bihar Important

Patna hosts Bihar's first International Buyer-Seller Meet for agri-food products

The Ministry of Food Processing Industries, with the Bihar Government, APEDA and TPCI, concluded Bihar's first-ever International Buyer-Seller Meet at Gyan Bhawan, Patna, it said on 21 May 2025.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Maharashtra Important

National Soil Spectral Library inaugurated; Maharashtra becomes first State with a soil map

At a Krishi Samvad in Nagpur on 18 May 2025, Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and CM Devendra Fadnavis inaugurated the National Soil Spectral Library, making Maharashtra the first State to have a soil map.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Tripura

Foundation laid for ₹42.4 crore Integrated Aquapark at Kailashahar, Tripura

Union Fisheries Minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh laid the foundation stone of a ₹42.4 crore Integrated Aquapark under PMMSY at Kailashahar, Tripura, at an event in Agartala on 18 May 2025.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India Important

PM reviews fisheries sector with focus on fishing in the EEZ and high seas

Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a high-level review of the fisheries sector on 15 May 2025, focusing on fishing in the Exclusive Economic Zone and high seas, and called for satellite technology, drones for fish transport and wider use of seaweed.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Nagaland

Shivraj Singh Chouhan opens veterinary college buildings at Jalukie, Nagaland; announces ₹338.83 crore for state's agriculture

Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan inaugurated the administrative-cum-academic block of the Central Agricultural University (Imphal) College of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry at Jalukie, Nagaland, on 15 May 2025 and announced ₹338.83 crore for Nagaland's agriculture sector.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Haryana

NRFMTTI Hisar gets CMVR testing approval for agricultural tractors

The Northern Region Farm Machinery Training & Testing Institute (NRFMTTI), Hisar, became an approved agency for Central Motor Vehicle Rules (CMVR) testing of agricultural tractors and received NABL accreditation for CMVR testing of tractors and combine harvesters, the Agriculture Ministry said on 14 May 2025.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Chhattisgarh

Shivraj Singh Chouhan and CM Vishnu Deo Sai review Chhattisgarh's agriculture and rural development

Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Chhattisgarh CM Vishnu Deo Sai reviewed the state's agriculture and rural development schemes at Mahanadi Bhawan, Raipur, on 13 May 2025; Chouhan said the Viksit Krishi Sankalp Abhiyan would begin on 29 May.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India Must know

ICAR releases India's first genome-edited rice varieties: DRR Rice 100 (Kamla) and Pusa DST Rice 1

Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on 4 May 2025 announced two genome-edited rice varieties developed by ICAR, DRR Rice 100 (Kamla) and Pusa DST Rice 1, which the Ministry described as the world's first.

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💹 Trade & Industry 📍 India

APEDA holds Chintan Shivir on export strategy for agri and processed foods

APEDA held a high-level Chintan Shivir in New Delhi, announced on 4 May 2025, to deliberate on strategies for boosting exports of agricultural and processed food products.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India

Amit Shah reviews NCEL, NCOL and BBSSL; sets ₹2 lakh crore export target for NCEL

Union Cooperation Minister Amit Shah reviewed the national cooperative societies NCEL, NCOL and BBSSL in New Delhi on 3 May 2025 and set a ₹2 lakh crore export target for NCEL.

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💹 Economy 📍 India Important

Sugar (Control) Order, 2025 replaces the 1966 Order

The Centre formulated the Sugar (Control) Order, 2025 after a review of the Sugar (Control) Order, 1966, the Food Ministry announced on 1 May 2025.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India Important

Wheat procurement in RMS 2025-26 crosses 250 LMT

Wheat procurement for the Central Pool in Rabi Marketing Season 2025-26 reached 256.31 lakh metric tonnes by 30 April 2025, against an estimated target of 312 LMT.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India

Sugarcane FRP for 2025-26 fixed at ₹355 per quintal

The CCEA approved a Fair and Remunerative Price of ₹355 per quintal for sugarcane for sugar season 2025-26 at a basic recovery rate of 10.25% on 30 April 2025.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Maharashtra Important

Coastal States Fisheries Meet 2025 in Mumbai: ₹255 crore projects, first aqua insurance, digital Marine Fisheries Census

Union Minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh launched fisheries projects worth ₹255 crore and awarded the first-ever aqua insurance at the Coastal States Fisheries Meet 2025 in Mumbai on 28 April 2025.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Tamil Nadu Must know

Vice-President addresses Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore

Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar addressed Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, on 27 April 2025, saying India must move from food security to farmer prosperity.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Karnataka Must know

Mann Ki Baat: apples in Karnataka's Bagalkot, saffron in Kinnaur and Wayanad

In Mann Ki Baat on 27 April 2025, PM Modi cited Shri Shail Teli of Bagalkot, Karnataka, who grows apples in the plains, and saffron cultivation in Kinnaur (Himachal Pradesh) and, using aeroponics, in Wayanad (Kerala).

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📅 Important Days & Themes 📍 India Must know

World Veterinary Day 2025 marked with national workshop; theme 'Animal Health Takes a Team'

The Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying marked World Veterinary Day 2025 with a national workshop in New Delhi on 26 April 2025, on the theme 'Animal Health Takes a Team'.

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💹 Economy 📍 India

Ministry of Cooperation signs MoU with Swiggy Instamart to onboard cooperative products

The Ministry of Cooperation and Swiggy Instamart signed an MoU on 25 April 2025 to onboard cooperative dairy, Bharat Organics and other cooperative products onto Swiggy's platforms.

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💹 Trade & Industry 📍 Odisha

APEDA and Odisha hold capacity-building programme to boost agri exports in Bhubaneswar

APEDA and the Government of Odisha held a workshop-cum-capacity-building programme to boost agricultural exports from Odisha at OUAT, Bhubaneswar, on 25 April 2025.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Uttar Pradesh

NCOL's packaging facility for Bharat Organics inaugurated in Noida

Cooperation Secretary Dr. Ashish Kumar Bhutani inaugurated the packaging facility of National Cooperative Organics Limited (NCOL) in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, on 24 April 2025.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India

Tur procurement under Price Support Scheme continues in nine States

The Agriculture Ministry said on 23 April 2025 that procurement of 13.22 LMT of tur under the Price Support Scheme for Kharif 2024-25 had been approved in nine States, with 100% procurement of tur, urad and masur to continue up to 2028-29.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Andhra Pradesh

Virginia tobacco grower registrations and barn licences made valid for 3 years

The Government amended the Tobacco Board Rules, 1976, to make Virginia tobacco grower registrations and barn licences valid for 3 years instead of 1, effective from the 2025-26 crop season in Andhra Pradesh, the Commerce Ministry said on 22 April 2025.

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👤 Appointments & Resignations 📍 India Important

Dr. Mangi Lal Jat takes charge as Secretary, DARE and Director General, ICAR

Agronomist Dr. Mangi Lal Jat assumed charge as Secretary of the Department of Agricultural Research and Education and Director General of ICAR on 21 April 2025.

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💹 Trade & Industry 📍 Maharashtra

First commercial sea shipment of Indian pomegranates reaches the USA from Maharashtra

APEDA said on 19 April 2025 that the first commercial sea shipment of Indian Bhagwa pomegranates, about 14 tonnes from Ahilyanagar in Maharashtra, had arrived in New York.

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🌐 Summits & Conferences 📍 World Important

15th BRICS Agriculture Ministers' Meeting in Brasília launches BRICS Partnership for Land Restoration

BRICS agriculture ministers met in Brasília on 17 April 2025 and agreed to launch the BRICS Partnership for Land Restoration, in line with the UNCCD framework; Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan represented India.

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🌿 Climate Change 📍 India Must know

IMD forecasts above-normal 2025 southwest monsoon at 105% of LPA

The India Meteorological Department's first-stage forecast, issued on 15 April 2025, says the June–September 2025 southwest monsoon rainfall is most likely to be above normal at 105% of the Long Period Average, with a model error of ±5%.

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📋 State Schemes 📍 Himachal Pradesh Important

First state-level Himachal Day function held in Pangi valley; Pangi to be first natural farming sub-division

Himachal Pradesh held its state-level Himachal Day function at Killar in the remote Pangi valley of Chamba district for the first time on 15 April 2025, where CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu declared Pangi the state's first natural farming sub-division.

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