HealthA Dhaka sweets and bakery chain said in May 2026 it would give about 3,000 indoor plants to customers buying cakes at ten outlets, citing the city's air pollution. Research up to that date found potted plants do little to clean indoor air.
AgribusinessAkij Agro Feed Limited, the feed company of Akij Resource, honoured 34 of its top business partners at a ceremony in Banani, Dhaka, on 11 April 2026. The company says it began operating in January 2025 and now sells 67 feed products.
FruitsIn a Facebook post on 1 April 2026, Amjanatar Dal member secretary Md Tarek Rahman wrote that about one in ten of his cash-on-delivery mango orders had been fake, and alleged that Jamaat-e-Islami supporters placed many of them to harass him.
AgribusinessFor four months, marginal poultry farmers in Bangladesh say they have sold eggs at Tk 6.5 to 7 against a production cost of Tk 9.5 to 10, and many small farms are closing as a result.
FruitsJago News reported on 1 March 2026 that everything but papaya was expensive in Dinajpur's markets and date sales had fallen; one shopper said most people had dropped fruit from iftar.
In a Facebook post after the election, Amjanatar Dal member secretary Md Tarek Rahman said his mango and honey business supports his family and his politics.
CropsMost winter vegetables in Dhaka's kitchen markets cost Tk 10-20 a kilogram more on 9 January 2026 than a week earlier, Jagonews24 found, with tomatoes at Tk 100-120 a kilogram; traders said the severe cold was keeping farmers from harvesting.
CropsOn 26 November 2025 a 2 kg 75 g hilsa caught in the Meghna was sold at open auction for Tk 8,200 at Tulatuli fish landing in Bhola Sadar. Traders said it was the first fish that size at the landing since the October fishing ban ended.
Betel leaf growers in Barguna have had a good harvest but say prices are so far below costs that they are sinking under NGO loans.
A hilsa weighing 2.1 kg caught in the Bay of Bengal sold for Tk 6,090 in Kalapara, Patuakhali.
Late-ripening varieties have stretched Bangladesh's mango season to about five months, though end-of-season prices in Dhaka have doubled.
A hilsa weighing 1kg 820g, caught in the Payra river, sold for Tk 6,000 at auction in Mirzaganj upazila of Patuakhali.
Hilsa prices at Chandpur's landing centre fell by about Tk 200 a kg as supply from the southern coast rose, though little of the fish came from the Padma and Meghna.
