FruitsRajshahi, Chapainawabganj, Naogaon and Natore had a target of about 12.55 lakh tonnes of mangoes in 2026, and traders estimated Tk 10,000 crore of activity around the crop, though growers said middlemen and a 54 kg maund cut their profits.
FruitsBangladesh's domestic mango market was estimated at Tk 13,000 crore, yet the country exported only 2,194 tonnes in 2025, earning under Tk 100 crore. In June 2026 exporters blamed steep air freight and gaps in quality production.
FruitsA two-member team from Malaysia's Department of Agriculture was to inspect Bangladesh's mango orchards, packing and storage facilities from 7 to 13 June 2026, the Bangladesh High Commission in Kuala Lumpur said on 2 June, raising hopes of fresh mango exports to Malaysia that season.
FruitsOn 1 June 2026, trade in Madrazi, Bedana, Bombai and China-3 lychees picked up at Dinajpur's New Market; with freight halted over the Eid holiday, 100 lychees sold for Tk 250 to Tk 800, less than a year earlier.
FruitsAfter losses the year before, Meherpur's lychee growers and traders reported a strong harvest and satisfactory prices in May 2026, with the Department of Agricultural Extension putting the district's lychee area at about 730 hectares and expected output at about 6,800 tonnes.
FruitsOpening the 2026 mango export season in Dhaka on 21 May 2026, Agriculture Minister Mohammad Amin Ur Rashid said all barriers to exporting mangoes and other farm produce would be removed, and named high air cargo fares as a main problem.
FruitsIn mid-May 2026 mango growers in Chapainawabganj said fruit bags were scarce just as the fruit had to be bagged, and that where bags were sold they cost almost double; some growers alleged traders were hoarding them. The agriculture office said it would look into the shortage.
FruitsChapainawabganj district administration decided on 11 May 2026 to set no mango picking dates again, allowing fruit to be picked once mature while warning of strict action against anyone marketing immature mangoes.
CropsSaikat Raihan Sakin of Barishal Sadar started a small fruit garden with money saved from private tuition during the Covid pandemic. By May 2026 it had become a one-acre nursery and mixed orchard with more than 80 mango varieties, which he told Jagonews earns him Tk 5 lakh to Tk 7 lakh a year.
FruitsOn 11 May 2026 the first Madrazi litchi of the season was selling in Dinajpur town at Tk 300 to Tk 320 a hundred, although the agriculture office said the sour, half-coloured fruit was not mature and ripe litchi was still 10 to 12 days away.
FruitsOrchards across the Rajshahi region blossomed heavily early in the 2026 season, but in early May growers said drought, erratic weather and pests were making young mangoes drop and the expected yield was not coming.
FruitsSatkhira formally began picking and marketing mangoes on 5 May 2026 under the district administration's mango calendar, with a production target of about 70,900 tonnes, and growers said they hoped for good prices.
FruitsOn 4 May 2026, with mature Haribhanga mangoes about six weeks from market, people in Rangpur's mango trade said the season could bring more than Tk 200 crore of business if the weather held; officials called it an "on year" with heavy fruiting.
