A young garments businessman in Tongibari, Munshiganj, who planted mango trees to give his family formalin-free fruit, now runs a three-acre commercial orchard with 20 to 25 varieties.
The Rangdhanu Foundation held a day-long festival in Panchagarh on 19 July displaying more than fifty local and foreign fruits.
A large mango market has grown up in the border upazila of Sapahar, trading about Tk 25 crore of mangoes a day, but growers complain they are not getting fair prices.
Bilati gab, a red fruit that grows without planting or care in Jhalakathi, is now collected from villages and sent to cities across Bangladesh.
Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs Minister Bir Bahadur Ushwe Sing said the hill region will one day be known for coffee and cashew nuts, just as Sylhet is known for tea.
Lotkon, once an unvalued wild fruit of the hills, is now in wide demand, and farmers in Khagrachhari are turning to growing it commercially.
Latkan, a once little-grown fruit, has transformed the economy of Kaliganj upazila in Gazipur, making farmers self-reliant and reaching markets abroad.
Aman cultivation on about 500 bighas of Surikhali beel in Tala, Satkhira, is in doubt after a month of waterlogging that farmers blame on blocked drainage.
A Tk 4 crore fruit market built two years ago on the edge of Bogura to ease traffic at Satmatha lies unused because some traders refuse to move there.
Agriculture Minister Dr Md Abdur Razzaque will visit several mango orchards in Chapainawabganj on a one-day official trip on Thursday, 13 July.
Heavy rain in Chapainawabganj has brought a fruit fly attack that is splitting Fazli mangoes and leaving crores of taka worth of fruit rotting on the trees.
Jackfruit seeds, cheap and plentiful in season, carry protein, minerals and fibre that can help with digestion, eyesight, skin, hair and more.
A Gazipur farmer who planted three foreign mulberry varieties on trial has had a strong first harvest and plans to farm them commercially.
