Jujube growers in Sharsha and Benapole of Jashore are becoming self-reliant, creating jobs and seeing profits, led by entrepreneurs such as Masters graduate Mahbubur Rahman.
Days of heavy rain, storms and hail have caused waterlogging and cracked embankments in Netrokona's haors, leaving farmers afraid an early flood will destroy their boro crop.
ACI Agribusiness president Dr. F. H. Ansari says the new government should continue farm machinery subsidies, build cold chains and focus on the agricultural value chain.
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.
A Kaliganj farmer who leased two and a half bighas and followed agriculture office advice now makes a living from bottle gourd grown without chemical pesticide.
CropsIn March 2026, farmers in Sharsha and Benapole, Jashore, were growing sunflowers on fallow and single-crop land with free seed and fertiliser from the local agriculture office. The upazila agriculture officer put the season's area at about 750 decimals.
Tractors, harvesters, deep tube wells and solar pumps have transformed farming since the 1980s, raising output while changing rural customs, costs and community life.
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.
CropsIn March 2026 Lalmonirhat farmers who had borrowed after last season's losses said they were selling potatoes at Tk 8-10 a kg against a cost of about Tk 15, while night rain soaked harvested tubers in low-lying fields.
Thousands of watermelons arrive by trawler at Chandpur's river ghat every day for dispatch around the country, and buyers complain that many are not yet ripe.
Former additional secretary Md Mahbub Kabir Milon said on Facebook that potato farmers are in mourning, with field prices at Tk 7 to Tk 8 a kg.
Marginal farmers in Khetlal, Joypurhat, have made more than Tk 1 lakh profit a bigha from beetroot in their first season, after repeated losses on potatoes.
FruitsIn early March 2026, 80 to 85 per cent of litchi trees in the main growing areas of Ishwardi upazila in Pabna were in blossom, and growers and agriculture officials were hoping for a bumper crop after a poor 2025 season.
