FruitsAt a Dhaka roundtable on 27 June 2026, fruit expert Dr. Md. Mehedi Masud said 65 percent of Bangladesh's roughly 15.2 million tonnes of annual fruit output comes in four months, and called for storage, processing and year-round production.
A python about eight feet long got caught in a farmer's net at Hutchinsonpur in Khagrachhari and was later rescued by a Forest Department team.
AgribusinessBangladesh's fruit-processing industry was struggling with an export incentive cut from 20 to 10 per cent, costly loans and dearer raw materials, Hashem Foods managing director Md Abul Hashem told a roundtable on 27 June 2026.
The animal carried by a child in a viral video, with a porcupine walking behind, is widely claimed to be a civet, but evidence suggests it is most likely her grey pet cat.
Satkora, the aromatic citrus known as Sylhet's traditional fruit, is now almost entirely imported from India, and part of it is re-exported abroad under the name Sylheti satkora.
Formalin is never used on fruit in Bangladesh and the idea is a misconception, the project director of the DAE's exportable mango production project told a Jago News round table.
A viral video of a small child walking through paddy fields carrying a civet-like animal with a porcupine following was widely shared as Bangladeshi, but fact-checkers traced it to Sri Lanka.
Rain and upstream runoff have pushed the Dudhkumar river 23 cm above the danger mark at Pateshwari in Kurigram, and the Water Development Board warns of a short-term flood within 72 hours.
Researchers say the rind and seeds of southern Bangladesh's watermelons, now thrown away, could be processed into food, oil, feed and the amino acid citrulline.
CropsQuality fruit and food are produced in Bangladesh, but weak promotion, low consumer awareness and a gap between farmers and scientists hold the sector back, S M Nazer Hossain of the Consumers Association of Bangladesh told a round table on 27 June 2026.
CropsPoor coordination between research institutes, the DAE, the Department of Agricultural Marketing and entrepreneurs was holding back Bangladesh's fruit processing industry, BARI chief scientific officer Dr Md Golam Ferdous Chowdhury told a Jago News round table on 27 June 2026.
To realise the potential of Bangladesh's fruit processing industry, international standards and destination-specific compliance must be ensured, not just production, a BSTI official said.
The Teesta was flowing 10 centimetres above its danger level at the Dalia Teesta Barrage point in Nilphamari at 9pm on 28 June.
A 25-year-old man in Lohagara, Chattogram, died after relatives took him to a local ojha rather than a hospital following a snakebite.
Eaten more than 100 billion times a year, the banana is the world's most consumed fruit and, after wheat, rice and maize, its fourth most important food crop.
Foreign mango varieties are catching on in the Khagrachhari hills because they fetch several times the price of local mangoes, but orchard owners say tolls on the way to market are a major burden.
Six hilsa weighing about 11 kg caught in the Padma at Daulatdia in Rajbari sold for Tk 47,300.
CropsKhulna district produced more than 80,000 tonnes of fruit on about 25,000 hectares in 2024-25, yet by June 2026 it had no cold storage, processing or organised fruit market, and no fruit had been exported from the district.
Bogura entrepreneur Tania Akter began with just 2 kg of jujube pickle, and that small venture has grown into a brand.
A hobby started in 2003 has grown into a 50-acre orchard of about 50 local and foreign fruit trees on the hills of Mirsarai in Chattogram.
