CropsFarmers in Thakurgaon said on 8 November 2025 that the aman paddy yield was good but that a two-maund sack was fetching Tk 2,200 to Tk 2,400, too little to cover their costs, and they asked the government to fix a fair price and buy paddy.
CropsFarmers in Magura were busy cutting and threshing a bumper aman paddy crop in early November 2025, crediting the season's heavy rain, though rain and wind had flattened paddy in some fields.
CropsKartik (17 October to 15 November) is when aman paddy is cut and the winter crops go in. Here is the government's Agricultural Information Service checklist for wheat, mustard, potato, sugarcane, pulses and vegetables, with its seed and fertiliser rates.
CropsOn 21 September 2025 farmers in Chhonka, Satkhira Sadar, began cutting the salinity- and submergence-tolerant BINA dhan23 at a BINA field day. Scientists said the variety tolerates 8 dS/m salinity and 15 days under water, and was ready in 112 days.
CropsOn floating beds of water hyacinth, known as baira, farmers in waterlogged areas can harvest vegetables two or three times in one monsoon; here is how to build one, with DAE and BRRI advice for saving aman rice, fish and livestock after a flood.
AgrotechWhen rain or floods wipe out an aman seedbed, a drum seeder can sow sprouted rice seed straight into puddled mud; in BRRI trials it out-yielded transplanting and matured 10 to 20 days earlier.
CropsFarmers in Lalmonirhat's five upazilas harvested a bumper Aman crop in late 2024; the agriculture department said 86,550 hectares were planted, above target, though farmers complained of rising input costs.
CropsOn 30 November 2024 the BNP launched a programme at Chandpai in Mongla, Bagerhat, to cut poor farmers' ripe paddy and carry it home without pay. The organisers said farmers struggle to pay harvest labour.
CropsFarmers in Manikganj were cutting a bumper aman paddy crop in November 2024 and hoped to repay their debts. The district agriculture office said aman was grown on 31,649 hectares against a target of 35,550 and that 30 per cent had been harvested.
Timely sun and rain have produced a bumper transplanted aman crop in Magura, with farmers now busy threshing.
Farmers in Bogura's Adamdighi expect a bumper Aman harvest, but a widespread stem borer attack in some areas has left them struggling.
Continuous rain and gusty winds from a Bay of Bengal low have flattened aman paddy in Ranisankail, and farmers fear losses, though the agriculture department sees little danger.
Farmers in Adamdighi, Bogura, have expanded aman rice cultivation this season and expect a bumper harvest thanks to timely rain and few pests.
