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India produces over 70% of the world's jaggery; exports up 106.5% in value since 2015-16

A PIB backgrounder of 16 May 2026 says India accounts for over 70% of global jaggery production, diverts 20–30% of its sugarcane to jaggery, and saw jaggery exports rise 106.5% in value between 2015-16 and 2024-25.

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💹 Trade & Industry 📍 India Important

EU includes India in revised draft list for continued aquaculture exports from September 2026

On 12 May 2026 the European Union included India in its revised draft list of countries allowed to keep exporting aquaculture products to the EU from September 2026, reversing an omission in Regulation (EU) 2024/2598.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India Must know

Cabinet raises MSP for 14 kharif crops for 2026-27; paddy (common) at ₹2,441 per quintal

On 13 May 2026 the CCEA approved higher MSPs for 14 kharif crops for marketing season 2026-27, with paddy (common) at ₹2,441 per quintal and the biggest rise for sunflower seed (₹622).

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Mizoram Important

₹189.79-crore Mizoram Ginger Mission launched by DoNER Minister Scindia and CM Lalduhoma

On 13 May 2026 DoNER Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia and Mizoram CM Lalduhoma launched the ₹189.79-crore Mizoram Ginger Mission for ginger cultivation and value-chain development using the state's GI-certified, pharma-grade ginger.

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🔬 Science & Technology 📍 Uttar Pradesh Must know

IMD launches its first AI-based monsoon advance forecast and a 1-km rainfall forecast pilot for Uttar Pradesh

On 12 May 2026 Union Minister Jitendra Singh launched IMD's first AI-driven 'Forecast of Monsoon Advance' for 16 states and over 3,000 sub-districts, and a 1-km resolution rainfall forecast pilot for Uttar Pradesh.

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🌐 International Organisations 📍 India Important

India and IFAD launch eight-year Country Strategic Opportunities Programme for 2026–2033

On 12 May 2026 India and the International Fund for Agricultural Development launched a new eight-year Country Strategic Opportunities Programme (COSOP) for 2026–2033 to raise rural incomes and resilience.

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💹 Economy 📍 India Important

5th IGoM on West Asia: India has 60 days of crude and gas, 45 days of LPG; fertiliser stock covers 51% of Kharif need

On 11 May 2026 the 5th Informal Group of Ministers on West Asia, chaired by Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh, was told India has 60 days of crude oil and natural gas and 45 days of LPG, and fertiliser stocks of 199.65 LMT against a Kharif 2026 need of 390.54 LMT.

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🔬 Health & Medicine 📍 India Important

ICAR and ICMR launch 'SEHAT Mission' to link agriculture, nutrition and public health

On 11 May 2026 Union Ministers JP Nadda and Shivraj Singh Chouhan launched the SEHAT Mission in Delhi, a joint national mission of ICAR and ICMR linking agriculture with nutrition, disease prevention and farmer welfare.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India

National Jute Board highlights Jute Crop Information System built with ISRO: BHUVAN JUMP app and PATSAN platform

On 11 May 2026 the Textiles Ministry described how the National Jute Board has run the Jute Crop Information System since 2023 with ISRO and the Jute Corporation of India, using the BHUVAN JUMP app and the PATSAN web platform.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Assam Important

Baksa district of Assam makes first-ever export of 20 MT ODOP honey to the USA

On 9 May 2026 a 20-metric-tonne consignment of One District One Product (ODOP) honey from Baksa, an Aspirational District of Assam, was flagged off to the USA in the district's first-ever honey export, facilitated by APEDA.

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🏛️ Governance & Administration 📍 Mizoram

Aizawl hosts Mizoram's first regional conference on cooperative reforms for North-Eastern states

On 8 May 2026 the Ministry of Cooperation held the second Regional Conference on Cooperative Reforms in Aizawl, the first such conference in Mizoram, bringing together all eight North-Eastern states; the first was held in Jaipur.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Bihar Important

Expert task force formed to tackle litchi stink bug damage in Bihar

On 7 May 2026, on Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's direction, ICAR's National Research Centre on Litchi, Muzaffarpur, set up an expert task force to study damage to litchi crops in Bihar by the litchi stink bug and report within a week.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India Must know

Cabinet approves ₹5,659.22 crore Mission for Cotton Productivity for 2026–27 to 2030–31

On 5 May 2026 the Union Cabinet approved the Mission for Cotton Productivity with an outlay of ₹5,659.22 crore for 2026–27 to 2030–31, aligned with the '5F' vision, to raise cotton yields and quality and make India self-sufficient in cotton.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India Important

Sugarcane FRP fixed at ₹365 per quintal for sugar season 2026–27

On 5 May 2026 the CCEA approved a Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) of ₹365 per quintal for sugarcane for sugar season 2026–27 at a basic recovery rate of 10.25%, 2.81% higher than the current season.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Karnataka Important

Centre approves MSP procurement of sunflower in Karnataka and raises gram procurement limit in Maharashtra

On 5 May 2026 Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan approved procurement of 9,023 tonnes of sunflower at MSP in Karnataka for Rabi 2026 and raised Maharashtra's gram procurement limit for Rabi 2025-26 to 8,19,882 tonnes, together giving MSP support of over ₹4,886 crore.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India Important

Summer crop sowing reaches 81.60 lakh hectares, 2.60 lakh hectares more than last year

Summer crops had been sown on 81.60 lakh hectares as on 1 May 2026, against 79.00 lakh hectares a year earlier, the Agriculture Ministry said on 4 May 2026, with coarse cereals and oilseeds up and rice down.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Ladakh Important

Amit Shah lays foundation of 10,000-litre-a-day dairy plant in Kargil

Cooperation Minister Amit Shah on 1 May 2026 laid the foundation stone of a ₹25-crore, 10,000-litres-per-day dairy plant in Kargil and witnessed an MoU between Ladakh Milk Federation and Mother Dairy to take Ladakh's dairy products to national markets.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India Important

Agriculture Ministry says 2025–26 wheat crop 'mixed but resilient' despite February heat

The Agriculture Ministry on 26 April 2026 said the 2025–26 wheat crop, sown on about 33.4 million hectares, saw no major pest or disease and that an extra 0.6 million hectares of area should offset localised losses from February heat stress and hailstorms.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Uttar Pradesh

North Zone Agriculture Conference held in Lucknow ahead of Kharif season

The Union Agriculture Ministry held the North Zone Agriculture Conference in Lucknow on 24 April 2026 with Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and ministers from six states and three Union Territories, to build a common agenda for Kharif and Rabi preparations.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Bihar Important

Bihar's first structured pulse procurement begins: NCCF buys masoor under PM-AASHA

NCCF began organised procurement of masoor (lentil) in Bihar for the first time under the Atmanirbhar Pulses Mission, with 100.4 MT procured against a 32,000 MT target as of 22 April 2026, the Food and Consumer Affairs Ministry said on 23 April.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Odisha Important

Centre approves MSP procurement of five crops in Odisha worth over ₹1,428 crore

Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on 22 April 2026 approved central procurement of moong, urad, groundnut, sunflower and mustard in Odisha, with a total MSP value exceeding ₹1,428.31 crore.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India Important

Government allows additional 25 lakh tonnes of wheat exports; total permitted rises to 50 LMT wheat and 10 LMT products

The Centre approved on 20 April 2026 the export of an additional 25 lakh metric tonnes of wheat, taking total permitted exports to 50 LMT of wheat and 10 LMT of wheat products.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India Important

Backgrounder: India's high-value crop push — horticulture output 370.74 million tonnes; India second in coconut

A PIB backgrounder of 19 April 2026 on high-value crop diversification said India's horticulture output rose to 370.74 million tonnes in 2024-25 and that India ranks second in the world in coconut production.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Uttar Pradesh Important

Centre approves procurement of 20 lakh tonnes of potatoes in Uttar Pradesh under Market Intervention Scheme

Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on 18 April 2026 approved procurement of 20 lakh metric tonnes of potatoes in Uttar Pradesh under the Market Intervention Scheme at ₹6,500.9 per tonne, along with chana procurement in Andhra Pradesh and an extension of tur procurement in Karnataka.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Andhra Pradesh

Fisheries Secretary reviews PMMSY brackishwater aquaculture cluster at Bhimavaram, Andhra Pradesh

Fisheries Secretary Abhilaksh Likhi reviewed the Brackishwater Aquaculture Cluster notified under the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana at Bhimavaram, Andhra Pradesh, on 16 April 2026 and met shrimp farmers.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India

NAAS brainstorming session charts roadmap for self-reliance in fertilizers

The National Academy of Agricultural Sciences held a brainstorming session on 14 April 2026 on a roadmap for Atmanirbharta in fertilizers; DARE Secretary and ICAR Director General M.L. Jat said India consumes nearly 33 million tonnes of fertilizers a year, a significant share of it imported.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Madhya Pradesh

Unnat Krishi Mahotsav concludes in Raisen; task force for 'seed-to-market' roadmap announced

The national-level agricultural fair 'Unnat Krishi Mahotsav' concluded in Raisen, Madhya Pradesh, on 13 April 2026, with Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan announcing a task force to implement the 'seed-to-market' roadmap and Nitin Gadkari agreeing in principle to the Raisen Ring Road project.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India Important

Finance Ministry says DoE letter on State crop bonuses was an advisory, not a directive

The Finance Ministry said on 12 April 2026 that the Department of Expenditure's letter of 9 January 2026 asking States to align their crop bonus policies with promoting pulses, oilseeds and millets was an advisory and not a directive.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Madhya Pradesh

Shivraj Singh Chouhan releases agricultural roadmap for four Madhya Pradesh districts

Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan released an agricultural roadmap for Sehore, Raisen, Vidisha and Dewas districts on 12 April 2026, the second day of the Advanced Agriculture Festival in Raisen, Madhya Pradesh.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India Important

Cabinet approves NBS rates for P&K fertilisers for Kharif 2026

The Union Cabinet on 8 April 2026 approved Nutrient Based Subsidy rates on phosphatic and potassic fertilisers for Kharif 2026 (1 April–30 September), with a tentative requirement of about ₹41,533.81 crore.

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