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CropsOn the night of 30 July 2026, unknown people cut down about 800 fruiting papaya trees on a leased one-acre orchard at Rangapani in Rangamati town, destroying papayas worth several lakh taka.
FruitsOn 30 July 2026 Jagonews24 published a simple dragon fruit milkshake recipe: ripe dragon fruit, cold milk, sugar or honey and crushed ice, blended for one to two minutes.
LivestockOn 29 July 2026 the US Department of Agriculture pledged $25 million for a sterile fly dispersal facility in Douglas, Arizona, which would be the country's second after one in Texas.
HealthRegulations gazetted on 16 July 2026 required everyone in the food trade, from footpath stalls to food importers, to register with or be licensed by the Bangladesh Food Safety Authority.
AgribusinessIn 2022, 7 percent of US farms run only by beginning operators were mainly poultry producers and 10 percent mainly grew fruit or vegetables, but only 12 percent were field crop farms, USDA's Economic Research Service found.
FisheriesIn July 2026 Ziaur Rahman of Kutubjom union in Maheshkhali, Cox's Bazar, and his crew found two Sri Lankan fishermen who had drifted in the Bay of Bengal for 36 days on a boat with a failed engine, and brought them ashore.
EnvironmentOn the morning of 28 July 2026 the forest department rescued a python nearly 10 feet long beside a settlement at Char Phulbari in Ulipur, Kurigram, and said it would go to Rangpur Zoo after health checks.
CropsFireflies are not flies but beetles of the family Lampyridae. They flash a cold light made by luciferin and luciferase to find mates, and habitat loss, light pollution and pesticides are their main threats.
LivestockA farm in Mirsarai, Chattogram, that started with five cows in 2012 held more than 300 cattle and about 500 animals in all in July 2026, and sold more than 200 cattle and buffaloes at that year's Eid ul-Adha.
Rooftop farmingFrom 9 to 23 July 2026, the month-long National Tree Fair in Dhaka's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar sold 8,12,802 saplings worth Tk 6,73,29,236, with indoor plants and rooftop garden trees selling best.
CropsOn 26 July 2026 the Bangladesh Embassy in Kathmandu hosted a mango festival, "Bangladesh Mango Delicacy", showing late-season mangoes from the Rajshahi region and processed mango products to about 250 guests.
CropsIn an essay published by Jagonews24 two days before World Nature Conservation Day on 28 July 2026, the writer argued that with forests shrinking, pollution rising and the climate changing, protecting nature falls to every citizen, not only the government.
LivestockThere were 94.2 million cattle and calves on US farms on 1 July 2026, slightly above 94.0 million a year earlier, according to the USDA Cattle report of 24 July; beef cows fell 1%.
