Vegetables
How to Grow Chia Seed as a Rabi Crop
Chia, a highly nutritious oilseed, can be grown in Bangladesh as a winter rabi crop, sown by 15 November and harvested in 90-100 days.
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From cowherd to orchard owner: Sakhipur grower eyes Tk 1 crore from sour jujube
Moslem Uddin of Sakhipur in Tangail expects to sell Tk 10 million of early-variety sour jujube this season from about 50 acres, clearing some Tk 3 million and employing 15 people year-round.
Fruits
Three years of standing water kill Jamalpur's 66-year-old litchi orchard
More than 150 litchi trees in an orchard planted with 137 trees in 1960 have died with their roots under water, while five neighbourhoods of the municipality spend seven to eight months of the year waterlogged.
Fruits
Imported Fruit Out of Reach, Buyers Turn to Local Fruit
High prices for imported fruit in Cumilla are pushing buyers towards cheaper local fruit, although local prices have also risen by Tk 10-50 a kg in a week.
Environment
Faridpur chars get 5,000 palmyra seeds and fruit saplings as a shield against lightning
A month-long drive across ten char unions in three upazilas, funded by the district council and run with the Faridpur Environment Development Forum, plants palmyra palms as natural lightning arresters.
Fruits
Kulaura tea estate grows dragon fruit on land unfit for tea, sells Tk 12 lakh
Sirajnagar tea garden in Moulvibazar started a Tk 12 lakh trial in 2024; the Thai Red, Jumbo Red and White Pink varieties fruited in the second year, are grown without chemical pesticides, and the estate now plans to export.
Fruits
South African cherries win access to China, with an early window before Chile arrives
A protocol signed in Beijing on 8 September by agriculture minister Willie Aucamp and GACC's Sun Meijun opens the world's largest cherry import market — 586,900 tonnes worth US$3.3 billion in 2025 — to South African growers for the first time; the department expects about 600 new jobs, and exporter
Vegetables
Green Fields, Golden Future: How Cumilla's Farming Is Being Transformed
Tea on the Lalmai hills, commercial fruit orchards, women entrepreneurs, remittance-funded farms and mechanisation are reshaping farming in Cumilla district.
Fruits
Katimon, the Thai year-round mango, is taking over Bangladesh's off-season market
Output has reached about 100,000 tonnes a year on some 7,000 acres, returns run to about Tk 500,000 a bigha, and ripe fruit sells at Tk 160–280 a kilo from pavement carts to upmarket shops in September.
Fruits
Colombia's earthquake halved the price of the chontaduro harvest
The magnitude 7.4 earthquake of 10 August struck San José del Palmar as the chontaduro harvest began; with its city markets also damaged, growers are now getting COP 40,000 for a load that fetched COP 80,000 before.
Fruits
California table grape district puts up US$1.7 million to keep fighting Pierce's disease
The Consolidated Central Valley Table Grape Pest and Disease Control District's board authorised industry-generated reactionary funds on 21 August to cover a US$1.7 million shortfall in CDFA's glassy-winged sharpshooter surveillance and treatment programme after federal and state funding was cut yea
Crops
Khirsapat Mangoes Still Available in Chapainawabganj, and Here Is How
Farmers in Shibganj, Chapainawabganj, are experimentally harvesting Khirsapat mangoes out of season from trees grafted with Katimon, and selling them at several times the seasonal price.
Fruits
Texas expects 39m pounds of pecans, up from 32m, but a dry August is hitting kernel fill
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension pecan specialist Monte Nesbitt estimates the 2026 Texas crop at about 39 million pounds against 32 million last year, after a wet spring spread scab, downy spot and powdery mildew and a hot, dry August arrived just as kernels began to fill; wholesale prices approached $3