Companies have cut the supply of bottled edible oil in Dhaka's markets while loose oil, sugar and flour prices climb and vegetables, fish, meat and eggs stay expensive.
VideoAfter leaving a garment job, H M Forwardi Palash planted an acre of year-round guava in Bhaluka, Mymensingh, and is working towards GAP certification to supply supershops.
Bangladesh Bank has signed agreements with seven banks to begin lending from a Tk 41,000 crore financing package built from banks' surplus liquidity to boost production, investment and jobs.
Bangladesh Bank has set up a Tk 10,000 crore refinancing scheme to lend to farmers and rural income-generating activities at 8 per cent interest, with collateral-free loans of up to Tk 5 lakh for small, marginal and tenant farmers.
Australian platform IIF, which lets ordinary people put money into a farmer’s cows, beehives or acres of canola and share the season’s return, is expanding across Canada after a funding round joined by its first Canadian investor, Verdex Capital.
Technology, services and value addition could make agriculture a dignified, profitable business sector for young Bangladeshis rather than a last resort.
Stanford spin-out Mafix has raised $5.4 million in pre-seed funding to heat silicate rock with limestone in cement kilns, producing a mineral that weathers in a single season on farmland, removes carbon dioxide and supplies plant-available silicon and alkalinity.
A study of 653 common bean farmers in 13 Ugandan districts finds members of the MasterCard Farmer Network market collectively far more often than unsupported groups, but that gender gaps in leadership and participation persist and in places widen.
When Bubayi Seed Company shut down in western Kenya, more than 300 contracted bean out-growers lost their buyer overnight, and a public seed producer watched germination rates fall on 10 tonnes it could not sell.
Chicken curry with small prawns, cooked in the kitchens of steamers crossing the Padma from Goalundo Ghat in British times, became known as the Goalundo Steamer Curry, and it can be made at home.
The Forest Department has returned two elephants rescued two years ago from use in extorting money on roads to their owners, on conditions that they are not abused or used to collect money.
Marginal farmers in Joypurhat say the cost of growing transplanted Aman rice has risen by Tk 3,000 to 5,000 a bigha because of dearer diesel, fertiliser, seed, pesticide and labour, while paddy prices have not risen to match.
Bangladesh is taking part as co-organiser for the second time in the Mekong-Lancang Fruits Festival 2026 in Kunming, where Bangladeshi firms will present fruit and farm products to Chinese and international buyers.
About 30 varieties of turmeric are used in the cooking of Asia, Africa and South America, and sales of turmeric supplements in Western markets are rising fast.
Mulching is spreading among vegetable farmers in low-lying, rain-prone Barishal because it saves water, weeding and labour and improves yields.
Skinless chicken breast packs far more protein by weight, while eggs offer complete protein plus vitamins and choline, so both can have a place in a balanced diet.
A senior columnist argues that the plastic Bangladeshis discard in rivers, drains and rubbish heaps can return to their plates as microplastics in fish and milk, making plastic a food-safety issue.
Some 50 doves caught with banned China duari nets were saved from a hunter in Faridpur and released at a local market after a journalist began filming.
The Forest Department in Kushtia is accused of selling part of about 35,000 saplings given free by a tobacco company, and cannot account for where many of them went.
A technical committee will review which projects can use binna grass, the vetiver that grows untended on fallow land across the country.
