A 16-year-old boy has died of snakebite in Boalmari, Faridpur, after his family tried to cure him with a faith healer instead of taking him to hospital in time.
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.
China has become one of the centres of the global fruit trade, and analysts say its growing import market also offers Bangladesh a big opportunity.
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.
EnvironmentBangladesh's Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education said in a letter of 27 June 2026 that every government and MPO-listed secondary institution had received a Tk 5,000 climate grant to plant trees under the "One Child, One Tree" programme, due to be inaugurated on 29 June.
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.
A court in eastern China has jailed a man for keeping more than 300 pythons in a flat, which police found by investigating unusual electricity use.
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.
Bananas were the world's most produced fruit in 2023, ahead of watermelon, apples, grapes and oranges, according to FAO and Statista data.
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.
Peel, stems and fibre from jackfruit, long thrown away, can be made into plant-based vegan leather, a new opportunity for Bangladesh as one of the world's biggest jackfruit producers.
Malaysian durian is winning buyers from China to Europe, the Middle East and the United States, and exports have grown sharply in recent years.
Two decades of cyclones and saltwater intrusion have left Satkhira's coastal soils too salty for mango, jackfruit and lychee, and salt-tolerant trees such as tamarind and wood apple are taking their place.
