CropsFake and substandard fertiliser, pesticide and seed were a silent but serious crisis for Bangladesh's farms, agriculture and environment specialist Samiran Biswas argued in Jagonews24 on 6 January 2026, calling for joint enforcement, digital tracing and better-informed farmers.
CropsIn early January 2026 mustard covered 63,530 hectares across Manikganj's seven upazilas, up from 63,002 hectares the season before, and the district agriculture office said its cultivation target had been met.
CropsMustard was in full flower across Magura in early January 2026; the Department of Agricultural Extension counted 22,893 hectares sown against a 25,090-hectare target and expected a bumper yield.
CropsAt the end of December 2025 the agriculture department in Sirajganj set a target of 404 tonnes of honey from mustard grown on 90,550 hectares, with more than 500 beekeepers placing hive boxes beside fields in the district's nine upazilas.
CropsIn late December 2025, at the start of the Bengali month of Poush, farmers in Magura's four upazilas were transplanting early onion seedlings through cold and fog; the district's agriculture office put onion area at 858 hectares.
CropsOn 28 December 2025 the Sharsha upazila agriculture office in Jashore said mustard had been sown on 6,502 hectares, the full target for the season, with sowing still under way and the final area expected to pass it.
CropsIn late December 2025, farmers across Manikganj's seven upazilas began transplanting hali onion seedlings. The DAE targeted 70,575 tonnes from 4,452 hectares, while farmers worried about costs, fertiliser and imports.
Bangladesh has met its onion demand from its own harvest this season, leaving farmers happy with prices while Indian growers and traders struggle to sell.
CropsIn November 2025 aman paddy leaves were drying brown within two weeks across Gaibandha's seven upazilas; farmers feared heavy losses, and the agriculture department's preliminary view was bacterial leaf blight.
Bangladesh's annual fruit output has grown from about one crore tonnes to 1.5 crore tonnes in a dozen years, with most fruits up but jackfruit and coconut down.
CropsA farmer in the Holidhani block of Jhenaidah Sadar grew a trial crop of summer watermelon on 52 decimals with mulching and trellises and set more than 2,000 fruits; an agriculture ministry team visited the field on 6 November 2025.
CropsCumilla's Department of Agricultural Extension expected Tk 20 to 22 crore worth of vegetable seedlings to be sold in the 2025 season, with more than 700 farmers raising seedlings on about 20 hectares around the village of Samespur.
CropsKamruzzaman Sheikh of Azmatpur in Kaliganj, Gazipur, began making vermicompost in 2023-24 with help from the upazila agriculture office; by October 2025 his unit was selling more than a tonne a month and neighbours had followed him.
