The Bangladesh Cold Storage Association has raised the rent for storing potatoes by Tk 1 to Tk 8 a kg and will no longer take sacks over 50 kg, angering farmers who say their costs have almost doubled.
Radish growers in Rajshahi are selling at Tk 3 to Tk 5 a kg, and many are abandoning their produce at the market.
Artesian wells installed by BADC in the hills of Mirsarai, Chattogram, bring groundwater up from about 1,000 feet without any pumping, allowing dry-season farming.
Rajshahi's Padma chars grow tomatoes in large quantities, but high transport costs are keeping farmers from the profits they expect.
Mango orchards in Rajshahi are filling with early blossoms, raising growers' hopes of a good harvest despite worries about fog.
Irrigation at the Meghna-Dhonagoda project was inaugurated on 20 January but switched off after a photo session, leaving farmers unable to transplant ageing Boro seedlings.
CropsDAE figures show Godagari in Rajshahi grew tomatoes on 2,670 hectares in 2024-25 with a 74,760-tonne target; over seven years the area rose and fell, which farmers put down to swinging prices.
Farmer Faridul Alam (44) was killed by elephants in Lama, Bandarban, while a pregnant elephant died after touching an electrified wire laid to protect crops.
At least 141 farmers in Mymensingh Sadar who grew BINA dhan17 and BINA dhan11 with free BINA seed saw most of their paddy turn to chaff.
Farmers are ignoring pesticide rules, making fruit and vegetables the most pesticide-laden foods, a Dhaka University nutrition professor told a Bangladesh Food Safety Authority seminar.
Rice prices have risen by Tk 2-6 a kg despite the Aman harvest and open imports, with traders blaming hoarding and rumours, millers blaming paddy prices and the food secretary blaming propaganda.
Farmers whose incentive onion seed failed to germinate this season have been given replacement seed, some of it imported urgently from abroad.
Crops'Fatema rice' grew from three giant panicles found in a hybrid rice field in Fakirhat, Bagerhat; the family said each panicle held over a thousand grains. By April 2021 farmers in Faridpur were growing it too, though it was not an approved variety.
