FruitsA June 2025 Jagonews24 guide set out twelve steps to keep monsoon-planted fruit saplings alive, from staking and bamboo cages to mulching, watering, feeding by age and variety and pruning after harvest; its fertiliser advice is checked here against BARC's 2024 national guide.
Biodiversity in farming, from crops and livestock to fish, insects and soil microbes, is vital for sustainable agriculture and food security.
As trees vanish from cities, rooftop gardens can clean the air, cool homes, grow safe food and help manage rainwater, a World Environment Day feature argues.
Crop management has evolved in stages, from the Green Revolution of the 1960s to integrated farming systems management, to make farming more effective, sustainable and eco-friendly.
A feature follows sharecropper Gafur Mia through the boro harvest and asks whether society gives farmers the dignity they deserve.
VegetablesA June 2025 Jagonews24 guide by agriculture and environment specialist Samiran Biswas said zinc, boron and magnesium are key to papaya health and yield, but that the wrong amount can harm the plant. Here is the advice, checked against DAE, research and university sources.
CropsIn June 2025 Shafiq Biplob, sub-assistant agriculture officer in Harinakunda upazila of Jhenaidah, set out advice on rose varieties, seedlings, pot care and pest control. It is checked here against Banglapedia and the University of California.
Agriculture Secretary Dr Mohammad Emdad Ullah Mian said Bangladesh exported 1,300 tonnes of mangoes last year and could lift that to 50,000 tonnes.
CropsA good banana harvest is set up at planting. Bangladesh's Agriculture Information Service advises 20 kg of cow dung, 400 g of TSP, 300 g of MoP and 650 g of urea per pit in stages, with irrigation every 15 to 20 days in the dry season.
Kuakata farmer Isahak Munshi, inspired by Rajshahi's orchards, has sold more than Tk 1 lakh of mangoes from one tree and now supplies much of his area.
As saline land spreads in coastal Bangladesh, salt-tolerant crops such as groundnut, sunflower, mung bean and watermelon can bring it into productive use.
VegetablesA Dhaka agriculture conference on 25 May 2025 heard that Bangladesh earned $55.6 million from vegetable exports and $39.1 million from fruit and flower exports in July-March of FY2024-25, and that youth involvement and coordinated action are needed to raise them.
A Chapainawabganj trader has sent one tonne of Khirsapat mangoes to England at the start of the season.
