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Rabi sowing reaches 614.30 lakh hectare, 6.87 lakh hectare above last year

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.

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📋 State Schemes 📍 Madhya Pradesh Important

Madhya Pradesh transfers ₹810 crore to 3.77 lakh soybean farmers under Bhavantar Yojana

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.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu CM opens two-day agricultural exhibition in Tiruvannamalai

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.

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🔬 Science & Technology 📍 India Important

BIS standards for bomb disposal systems, electric tractors and agarbattis released on National Consumer Day

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.

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📅 Important Days & Themes 📍 India Important

Kisan Diwas 2025 observed on Chaudhary Charan Singh's birth anniversary

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.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Assam Must know

PM lays foundation stone of ₹11,000 crore Ammonia-Urea project at Namrup, Assam

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.

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🎭 GI Tags 📍 Karnataka Important

GI-tagged Indi Lime from Karnataka enters Oman market with first export shipment

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.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India

ICAR and Argentina's INTA sign Work Plan 2025–27 for agricultural research

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.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Telangana

Telangana announces mobile app for farmers to book urea, pilot from 20 December

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.

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📋 State Schemes 📍 Assam

4th Cooperative Mela 2025 opens in Guwahati; Assam completes PACS computerisation

Union Minister of State for Cooperation Krishan Pal Gurjar inaugurated the 4th Cooperative Mela 2025 at AEI Ground, Chandmari, Guwahati, on 13 December 2025.

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💹 Economy 📍 Lakshadweep

First-ever fisheries investors' meet held in Lakshadweep; ₹519 crore investment envisaged

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.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India Important

National Makhana Board holds first meeting; ₹476-crore Central Sector Scheme rolled out

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.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India Important

Cabinet approves copra MSP for 2026 season: ₹12,027 per quintal for milling copra, ₹12,500 for ball copra

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.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Gujarat

Amit Shah inaugurates Banas Dairy Bio-CNG and fertilizer plant in Vav-Tharad, Gujarat

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.

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💹 Banking & RBI 📍 Gujarat

Amit Shah inaugurates EARTH Summit 2025 in Gandhinagar, launches Sahakar Sarathi services

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.

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🚄 Energy & Power 📍 Maharashtra Important

Maharashtra receives Guinness World Record for 45,911 solar agriculture pumps in one month

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.

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🌿 Pollution & Conservation 📍 Punjab Important

Punjab and Haryana record lowest farm fires as paddy season 2025 ends

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.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India

Rabi sowing crosses 393 lakh hectares; wheat area up 16.91%

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.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Delhi

EIMA Agrimach India 2025 concludes in New Delhi with Italy as partner country

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.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Meghalaya

Shillong hosts 1st Northeast India Organic Week and 4th IFOAM World Organic Youth Summit

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.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India Must know

Kharif foodgrain output estimated at record 173.33 million tonnes in 2025-26

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.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India Must know

Basic Animal Husbandry Statistics 2025: milk output 247.87 million tonnes, per capita 485 g/day

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.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India Must know

Horticulture output estimated at 369.055 million tonnes in 2024-25; onion up 26.88%

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.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India

Rabi sowing crosses 306 lakh hectares; pulses at 73.36 lakh ha

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

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Assam

Sonowal reviews Namrup fertilizer plant; new ₹10,000 crore ammonia-urea complex planned

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.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Rajasthan

National Water Mission holds first regional conference on irrigation water-use efficiency in Jaipur

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.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India Important

World Fisheries Day: India releases National Framework on Traceability in Fisheries and Aquaculture 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'.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India Must know

Final estimates 2024-25: record foodgrain output of 357.73 million tonnes

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.

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📋 Central Schemes 📍 India Must know

PM releases 21st PM-KISAN instalment of ₹18,000 crore from Coimbatore

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.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Tamil Nadu Important

PM inaugurates South India Natural Farming Summit 2025 in Coimbatore

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.

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