AgrotechBangladesh's agriculture secretary told a conference in Dhaka on 27 November 2025 that a 25-year master plan to modernise farming was in its final stage, with a final draft due in December.
IoT soil sensors measure soil moisture, pH, salinity and nutrients in real time, letting farmers make data-driven decisions on irrigation, fertiliser and crops.
Farmers in Mirsarai, Chattogram, are busy harvesting aman paddy after cultivation rose by 1,900 hectares from last year's flood-hit level.
A mixed fruit orchard run by Sarowar Hossain Babu and his two brothers in Rajbari has produced a bumper orange crop, with each tree bearing more than 20 kg on average.
Farmers in Faridpur have found success growing jute seed and expect it to earn more per decimal of land than it cost them.
CropsIn November 2025 sap collectors in Magura began trimming and scraping date palms for the winter season. The district had about 1.05 lakh date palms, the Department of Agricultural Extension said, but rising costs left the gachhis fearing thin profits.
CropsIn November 2025 aman paddy leaves were drying brown within two weeks across Gaibandha's seven upazilas; farmers feared heavy losses, and the agriculture department's preliminary view was bacterial leaf blight.
CropsKachua growers reported a good crop and prices in November 2025 but say they still carry last year's debts and get no help from the agriculture office. The DAE's deputy director said cane has no incentive and that the office would recommend one.
CropsA Jagonews24 report of November 2025 said most farmers it met did not know the 58 spice varieties listed by the BARI centre in Bogura; the centre's officers said the varieties were grown widely and that they had no budget for extension.
Murikata onion planting in Faridpur has reached 75 per cent of the target, but farmers complain of fertiliser shortages and overcharging, which dealers deny.
CropsA farmer in Ramnagar village of Jhenaidah Sadar grew the hill paddy Sentu Pajam 21 on high fallow land in the 2025 aman season, and said it needed under a tenth of aman's irrigation and cost Tk 7,000 to 8,000 a bigha.
With date palm trees and tappers dwindling in Narail's Kalia upazila, a local journalist has brought tappers from Rajshahi and officials promise to train local gachhis.
Farmers in Mirsarai, Chattogram, are making good profits from off-season watermelon grown with mulching under a DAE project, and the area under the crop is expanding.
