AgribusinessThe Philippine Department of Agriculture has agreed 605 farm-to-market road projects worth PHP9.06bn in northern Luzon and is exploring a deal with DALI Everyday Grocery, which runs 1,403 stores, to buy directly from farmer cooperatives.
AgribusinessDirect-from-origin food brand KisaanSay plans to grow its farmer network from more than 50,000 to two lakh by 2027 and source from 15 states, saying more than half of what consumers pay goes to farmers.
Some 20,000 sacks of potatoes stored at Madaripur Cold Storage since March 2025 have rotted after the owner waited in vain for a higher price; the loss is put at Tk 30 million at current rates.
Every Sunday and Wednesday farmers row in cucumber, gourd, bitter gourd, ash gourd, pumpkin, ridge gourd and yard-long beans, and wholesalers from Barishal, Pirojpur, Jhalakathi, Barguna and Chandpur load them straight onto trawlers; DAE deputy director Md Motahar Hossain says infrastructure problem
The Beef Promotion Operating Committee funded eight national organisations, $26.05 million to the National Cattlemen's Beef Association and $8.1 million to the US Meat Export Federation, across promotion, research, consumer information and marketing in more than 90 countries, subject to USDA appro
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.
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.
