At a government grower imbizo, the deputy trade minister promised talks with lenders on finance suited to cane growers, and more predictable reviews of the sugar import tariff.
A Vadodara start-up part-owned by Nabard has onboarded more than 300,000 Kisan Credit Card applications through cooperative banks and regional rural banks since December 2025, replacing paper forms and three-to-four-week waits with Aadhaar checks, land-record validation and crop-based loan limits.
An ADB technical note on Heifer International's work finds that under 10 per cent of global climate finance reaches local level and only about 5 per cent of extension services effectively reach women; in Bangladesh 101 women-led cooperatives now link 133,034 smallholders to finance, insurance and ma
Under Bangladesh Bank's revolving scheme, farmers and agribusinesses in Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions can borrow at no more than 7 percent for four stages of the supply chain, from production and storage to export.
Speaking in Fulgazi, Feni, Agriculture Minister Mohammad Amin Ur Rashid said monitoring teams were at work, two crore farmers would get farmer cards and farm loans of up to Tk 10,000 had been waived.
Answering a written question from Chuadanga-2 member Md Ruhul Amin on 6 September, Finance Minister Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury said every farmer who had borrowed up to Tk 10,000 had been covered by July 2026, in every upazila of the country.
Thirty-eight growers from Pabna and Natore, bearing a 16-kilo elephant-foot yam among other crops, raised NGO loan instalments, litchi storage, fertiliser allocation and fines on farm carts.
AgribusinessUSDA expects inflation-adjusted farm interest expenses to be the highest ever recorded this year, the Farm Bureau says, while the Farm Service Agency lent US$6.74 billion in fiscal 2025 and a farm bill proposal would nearly double direct operating loan limits.
Bangladesh Bank's monthly report on agriculture and rural finance shows banks lent Tk 42,834.16 crore against a Tk 39,000 crore target, 14.76 per cent more than the year before; crops took 47.32 per cent, livestock and poultry 26.38 per cent and fisheries 13.33 per cent, while the top ten MFIs disbu
Colorado agrifintech SweetAg has raised $7.4 million led by Diagram Ventures, Builders VC and Cooperative Ventures to build core lending infrastructure that lets farmers document and renew loans online, with AI handling document checks and humans keeping the credit decisions.
AgribusinessBangladesh's government said the Farmer Card would be launched in Tangail on Pahela Baishakh 2026. A pre-pilot in 11 blocks of ten districts was to cover 22,065 people, with landless, marginal and small farmers receiving Tk 2,500 a year in cash.
AgribusinessBanks disbursed Tk 21,000 crore in farm loans in the first six months of the 2025-26 fiscal year, Tk 4,749 crore or 29 percent more than a year earlier, according to Bangladesh Bank data reported on 27 January 2026.
