Agriculture & Rural Current Affairs One-liners — Last 12 months

Mon, 29 Dec 2025

• Rabi crop coverage reached 614.30 lakh hectare as of 26 December 2025, 6.87 lakh hectare more than a year earlier, with gram up 4.66 lakh hectare, the Agriculture Ministry said on 29 December 2025.

Sun, 28 Dec 2025

• Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav transferred ₹810 crore to over 3.77 lakh soybean farmers under the Bhavantar Yojana at Jaora in Ratlam district on 28 December 2025.

Sat, 27 Dec 2025

• Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin inaugurated a two-day Agricultural Exhibition and Seminar in Tiruvannamalai on 27 December 2025 and said ₹289.63 crore had been released for 3.60 lakh farmers hit by 2024-25 monsoon crop damage.

Wed, 24 Dec 2025

• Union Minister Pralhad Joshi released three new Bureau of Indian Standards, for bomb disposal systems, electric agricultural tractors and incense sticks, at the National Consumer Day event at Bharat Mandapam on 24 December 2025.

Tue, 23 Dec 2025

• Kisan Diwas (National Farmers' Day) was observed across India on 23 December 2025, the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Chaudhary Charan Singh, with ICAR institutes holding farmer programmes.

Sun, 21 Dec 2025

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of the Ammonia-Urea Fertilizer Project of Assam Valley Fertilizer and Chemical Company Limited at Namrup in Dibrugarh, Assam on 21 December 2025.

Fri, 19 Dec 2025

• Three metric tonnes of GI-tagged Indi Lime from Vijayapura district of Karnataka were exported to Oman on 19 December 2025, the produce's first shipment to the Omani market.

Wed, 17 Dec 2025

• The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and Argentina's National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) exchanged a signed Work Plan 2025–2027 on 17 December 2025.

Mon, 15 Dec 2025

• Telangana Agriculture Minister Tummala Nageswara Rao announced in Hyderabad on 15 December 2025 that farmers will be able to book urea through a mobile app, to be introduced on an experimental basis from 20 December.

Sat, 13 Dec 2025

• Union Minister of State for Cooperation Krishan Pal Gurjar inaugurated the 4th Cooperative Mela 2025 at AEI Ground, Chandmari, Guwahati, on 13 December 2025.
• The Department of Fisheries and the UT Administration held the first-ever Investors' Meet on fisheries and aquaculture in Lakshadweep at Bangaram Island on 13 December 2025, with about ₹519 crore of investment envisaged.

Fri, 12 Dec 2025

• The National Makhana Board held its first board meeting at Krishi Bhawan, New Delhi, on 12 December 2025, starting implementation of the Board and the ₹476.03-crore Central Sector Scheme for Development of Makhana.
• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved on 12 December 2025 the Minimum Support Price for copra for the 2026 season, fixing ₹12,027 per quintal for milling copra and ₹12,500 per quintal for ball copra.

Sat, 06 Dec 2025

• Union Cooperation Minister Amit Shah inaugurated a Bio-CNG and fertilizer plant built by Banas Dairy and laid the foundation stone of a 150-ton powder plant in Vav-Tharad district, Gujarat, on 6 December 2025.

Fri, 05 Dec 2025

• Union Cooperation Minister Amit Shah inaugurated EARTH Summit 2025 at Mahatma Mandir, Gandhinagar, on 5 December 2025 and launched more than 13 digital services under NABARD's Sahakar Sarathi.

Thu, 04 Dec 2025

• Maharashtra received a Guinness World Records certificate on 4 December 2025 for installing 45,911 solar agriculture pumps in a single month under the 'Magel Tyala Saur Krushi Pump' scheme, in the presence of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.

Mon, 01 Dec 2025

• Punjab recorded 5,114 and Haryana 662 paddy stubble-burning incidents in the 2025 season, the lowest so far, the Commission for Air Quality Management said on 1 December 2025.
• Rabi crops had been sown on 393.07 lakh hectares as of 28 November 2025, against 357.73 lakh hectares a year earlier, the Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare reported on 1 December 2025.

Sat, 29 Nov 2025

• The 9th EIMA Agrimach India 2025, an international agri-machinery exhibition held at IARI, Pusa, New Delhi from 27 to 29 November 2025, concluded with a call for green fuel-based farm machinery.
• A four-day international organic event — APEDA Buyer–Seller Meet, 1st Northeast India Organic Week and 4th IFOAM World Organic Youth Summit (28 Nov–1 Dec 2025) — was formally inaugurated in Shillong on 29 November 2025.

Wed, 26 Nov 2025

• Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan released the first advance estimates of Kharif crop production for 2025-26 on 26 November 2025, putting total Kharif foodgrain output at 173.33 million tonnes, up 3.87 million tonnes.
• MoS Prof. S.P. Singh Baghel released 'Basic Animal Husbandry Statistics 2025' on National Milk Day, 26 November 2025, estimating India's milk production at 247.87 million tonnes in 2024-25.

Tue, 25 Nov 2025

• Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan released the Third Advance Estimates of horticultural crops for 2024-25 on 25 November 2025, putting production at 369.055 million tonnes from 29.488 million hectares.

Mon, 24 Nov 2025

• The Agriculture Ministry said on 24 November 2025 that area under rabi crops had exceeded 306 lakh hectares as on 21 November 2025.

Sun, 23 Nov 2025

• Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal reviewed works at the Namrup Fertilizer Plant of Brahmaputra Valley Fertilizer Corporation Ltd (BVFCL) in Dibrugarh district, Assam, on 23 November 2025.

Sat, 22 Nov 2025

• The Bureau of Water Use Efficiency (BWUE) of the National Water Mission, Ministry of Jal Shakti, held the first Regional Conference on Enhancing Water Use Efficiency in the Irrigation Sector at CCS NIAM, Jaipur, on 22 November 2025.

Fri, 21 Nov 2025

• The Department of Fisheries released the National Framework on Traceability in Fisheries and Aquaculture 2025 at the World Fisheries Day celebration in New Delhi on 21 November 2025, themed 'India's Blue Transformation: Strengthening Value Addition in Seafood Exports'.

Thu, 20 Nov 2025

• Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan released the final estimates of crop production for 2024-25 on 20 November 2025, putting India's foodgrain output at a record 357.73 million tonnes, up from 332.30 million tonnes in 2023-24.

Wed, 19 Nov 2025

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the 21st instalment of PM-KISAN, about ₹18,000 crore for around 9 crore farmers, from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu on 19 November 2025.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the South India Natural Farming Summit 2025 in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu on 19 November 2025 and urged farmers to try 'One Acre, One Season' of natural farming.