FruitsPapaya seedlings are best planted in Falgun-Chaitra, and BARI gives February-March for its Shahi papaya. A May 2026 Jagonews24 guide is checked here against BARI, BAMIS and AIS advice.
FisheriesChital can be farmed alongside carp, with tilapia brood stocked in the pond so that their young feed the predator, a Jagonews24 farming guide advised on 14 May 2026. Research on breeding and raising this fish, endangered in Bangladesh, puts the advice in context.
Days of rain have submerged boro paddy in Gaibandha while farmers face scarce labour, high wages, low market prices and problems selling to the government.
Pankabila, a century-old litchi village in Narail Sadar, sells at least Tk 2 crore worth of litchis each season, and farmers are pleased with this year's yield and prices.
CropsSaikat Raihan Sakin of Barishal Sadar started a small fruit garden with money saved from private tuition during the Covid pandemic. By May 2026 it had become a one-acre nursery and mixed orchard with more than 80 mango varieties, which he told Jagonews earns him Tk 5 lakh to Tk 7 lakh a year.
FruitsA Jagonews24 guide of 9 May 2026 said the miracle berry, a West African shrub whose fruit makes sour food taste sweet, can be grown in Bangladesh in acidic soil with partial shade and steady watering.
Three pink cassia trees planted beside the Shariatpur district model mosque in 2023 have flowered for the first time, drawing bees and flower lovers.
Magura's litchi, including the GI-recognised Hazrapur fruit, has reached the market early, with satisfactory yields and prices raising hopes of about Tk 85 crore in trade.
The government has fixed variety-by-variety mango picking dates for each district, with Satkhira's local varieties first on 5 May and Gourmati last on 14 August.
Cashew nuts, once left to rot in Bandarban's hill orchards, have become one of the region's most profitable cash crops, and farmers are busy harvesting them.
CropsIn the last week of April 2026, days of heavy rain and flash runoff from upstream put ripe boro rice under water across the haors of Sunamganj, where a large share of the 223,511 hectares planted was still waiting to be harvested.
In an opinion piece, Rajshahi College student Bushra Azmi argues that rising costs, forced sales and middlemen leave paddy farmers with the smallest share of the value they create.
Litchi cultivation in Meherpur has grown to about 800 hectares this year, and with good fruit set the agriculture department expects Tk 50 to 55 crore in sales.
