CropsIn June 2026, Department of Agricultural Extension data showed about 34 kinds of foreign fruit grown in Bangladesh, a dozen of them commercially successful. Dragon fruit and malta led, and home-grown dragon fruit had been exported to Sweden.
The Regional Agricultural Research Station at Akbarpur, Moulvibazar, has developed 11 fruit varieties since 1982 and is now adapting fruits, vegetables and oil crops to the region.
Dinajpur's Bedana litchi, now recognised as a geographical indication product, has a history of some 250 years that local tradition traces to one farmer in Mashimpur village.
Online fruit selling, led by thousands of young entrepreneurs, is growing fast in Bangladesh, with 400 to 500 tonnes of mangoes a day sold online from Chapainawabganj alone.
One of the 17 memoranda signed during the prime minister's visit to China covers the import of jackfruit from Bangladesh.
A venomous banded krait trapped for about a week in a house's boundary net was rescued in Sreemangal, Moulvibazar, on 27 June.
All government and MPO-listed secondary schools have received Tk 5,000 each to plant trees under the "One Child, One Tree" programme.
Rangamati's famous Honey Queen pineapple has had a record season, lifting hill families' incomes, though farmers still lack cold storage, roads and processing.
Speakers at a Jagonews24 roundtable said fruit worth Tk 25,000 to 50,000 crore is wasted every year for lack of processing, and called for coordinated action on marketing, processing and exports.
Farmers in Savar and Dhamrai near Dhaka are switching to foreign and hybrid fruits for higher profits, and scientists and environmentalists warn that local varieties could be lost for good.
CropsHill farmers in Bandarban were cutting back on jhum shifting cultivation for fruit orchards in 2026, drawn by better profits, demand and government support; in Sadar upazila orchards covered 5,302 hectares in 2025-26 against 155 hectares of jhum.
Banana farming is booming in the Rangpur region, but a lack of storage and processing means large quantities of fruit are lost every year.
An "Environment Olympiad" was held in Dhaka on 27 June to build environmental awareness among underprivileged children.
