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.
