CropsThe Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation turns 65 on 16 October. In 2025-26 it produced 144,000 tonnes of seed, extended irrigation to 22,000 hectares and supplied 75.37 percent of the country's non-urea fertiliser.
A joint raid by the consumer rights directorate and BADC found substandard fertiliser being blended at two Sadarghat warehouses; about 40,000 sacks have gone out, some possibly to government stores in BADC sacks.
AgribusinessThe cabinet purchase committee cleared an optional fifth lot from OCP Nutricrops at $866 a tonne; BADC will import it and the cost comes out of the farm subsidy budget.
AgribusinessThe IDA credit will import 600,000 tonnes, 500,000 of them urea, for the Aman and Boro seasons; BADC and BCIC will carry out the project.
BADC's Madarganj store holds more than three times its capacity and 57 loaded trucks wait outside, while farmers pay Tk 200 to Tk 250 a sack over the government price.
CropsA parliamentary committee heard that the Ashuganj plant has also been shut for 19 months, and urged more fertiliser production at home and self-sufficiency in seed.
CropsA BADC-approved low-lift pump irrigation scheme in Ullapara, Sirajganj was sanctioned on land not owned by the applicant, and the pump was built on neighbouring railway property.
Both tenders closed without a single bid; contractors allege an influential group scared transporters away. A re-tender could delay deliveries of imported MOP to the field.
A mobile court in Lalpur, Natore, fined BADC fertiliser dealer Saiful Traders Tk 50,000 under the consumer rights law after its stock did not match its stock register.
The cabinet committee on government purchase approved four proposals to import muriate of potash and DAP worth about Tk 983 crore, to be paid from the agricultural subsidy budget.
106 solar-powered irrigation pumps now run in Maheshpur, Kotchandpur and Sadar upazilas of Jhenaidah, cutting farmers' irrigation bills and letting owners sell surplus water to neighbours.
At a Bijoynagar press conference BFA chairman Md Mosharraf Hossain said BCIC dealers appointed in 1995 paid Tk 2 lakh deposits while BADC seed dealers were made fertiliser dealers in 2009 on Tk 25,000, and most irregularities now surfacing involve them; the government granted Tk 1 a kg of the Tk 4 c
The agriculture ministry's allocation letter of 14 September covers October demand in full, 70,052 tonnes of TSP, 150,910 of DAP and 93,654 of MOP, with all TSP from BADC and 1,000 tonnes of DAP from BCIC; Bogura gets 4,540 tonnes of MOP and Rajshahi 3,360, and early imports, stocks and field moni
