CropsContinuous rain and upstream flash floods submerged more than 2,500 more hectares of boro paddy in Kishoreganj, taking the area under water to 12,500 hectares and the farmers affected to about 49,000, the district's agriculture office said on 4 May 2026.
FruitsOn 1 May 2026 about 5,000 litchis picked from the trees of Bijoy-24 Hall at Rajshahi University were shared equally among 135 rooms, including the PhD block, and the hall's staff, with 25 to 30 fruits for each room.
VegetablesSweet pumpkin growers in Ghior, Manikganj, said in April 2026 that yields had fallen from 3-4 tonnes a bigha to 1-2 tonnes and fruit was rotting, so good prices could not cover their costs; the DAE said district output beat its target and farmers were profiting.
FruitsOn 26 April 2026 Satkhira's district administration announced its mango picking calendar: local varieties from 5 May, Himsagar and Khirsapat from 15 May, Langra from 27 May and Amrapali from 5 June.
FruitsA long heatwave and drought in April 2026 were shedding litchi fruitlets in Ishwardi, Pabna, after a record bloom, with the local Mozaffarpuri variety worst hit. Officials urged regular irrigation.
FlowersA 'noto cactus' brought from Thailand flowered yellow at the government horticulture centre in Madaripur in April 2026; the centre's deputy director said it was probably the first such bloom in Bangladesh.
CropsIn April 2026 farmers in Munshiganj, where potatoes were planted on 34,660 hectares, said wholesale prices were below their production costs and they were losing money on every maund sold. They called for TCB purchases and more exports.
FruitsKamruzzaman Pradhania, a young entrepreneur in Chandpur Sadar upazila, began growing grapes on a rooftop during the Covid years and by April 2026 had three vineyard plots with, he said, about 85 varieties from 18 countries.
CropsAt sunrise on Pohela Boishakh, 14 April 2026, more than a lakh farmers went into at least 25 haors of Sunamganj to cut boro paddy. The district agriculture department put that season's boro area at 223,500 hectares.
CropsA farmer in Chhatmadhai village of Kurigram's Rajarhat upazila grew onion seed on about 60 decimals in the 2025-26 season, the district's first such effort, and local agriculture officials said home-grown seed could cut farmers' costs.
CropsTwo spells of hail on 24 March 2026 damaged boro paddy on about 4,000 hectares across Kishoreganj, the district agriculture department's first count showed, with Mithamain and the other haor upazilas hit hardest.
CropsMustard covered 665 hectares in Mirsarai, Chattogram, in the 2025-26 season against 40 hectares in 2019-20, the upazila agriculture office said in March 2026, as farmers harvested what they described as a good crop.
AgribusinessIn a Jagonews24 column on 18 March 2026, agriculture and environment specialist Samiran Biswas argued that the government's planned farmer card could get fertiliser, seed, pesticide and support to genuine farmers without middlemen, if the data behind it is kept accurate.
