CropsMd Hasib of Bandar upazila, Narayanganj, gave up driving to grow mushrooms in early 2020. In March 2025 he said the family-run farm in a rented house earned him about Tk 7-8 lakh a year.
A network engineer in Meherpur's Mujibnagar upazila started growing strawberries for his daughter and has become a successful farmer, selling over Tk 18 lakh worth.
Despite a good harvest, Cox's Bazar salt farmers are selling below cost, accusing mill owners of a syndicate and storing salt in pits in the hope of higher prices.
CropsAbul Kashem, known as the first mushroom farmer of Mirsharai in Chattogram, started with Tk 10,000 in 2022; by March 2025 his farm was producing 5 to 7 kg of mushrooms a day.
A stage-by-stage guide to protecting lychee trees from mites, insects and disease, with irrigation, fertiliser and harvest advice for a profitable crop.
A madrasa-educated young man in Kishoreganj's Hossainpur has found success growing cucumber on fallow land next to his home, helped by good market prices this season.
Sugarcane farmers in Barishal's Babuganj are working all day to meet Ramadan demand for the adulteration-free molasses they make beside their fields.
Two young entrepreneurs who planted strawberries on a vast Teesta sandbar in Kurigram's Ulipur face heavy losses after seedlings of the wrong quality failed to deliver the yield they expected.
CropsEight of the 17 elements plants need are micronutrients, required in tiny amounts, yet a shortage of any one of them limits growth and yield. FAO counts zinc and boron deficiencies as the most important worldwide.
A farmer in Chandpur's Matlab Uttar hopes for a bumper sunflower crop in his third season, while visitors come from far away to see and photograph the blooms.
With floods cutting the aman harvest, Bangladesh is counting on a boro crop of 2.26 crore tonnes, which will need a set of steps on seed, water, fertiliser, credit and procurement.
VegetablesSweet pumpkin in Kishoreganj grew from 1,005 to 1,216 hectares in the 2024-25 season, but haor farmers said in early March 2025 that low yields and higher costs met field prices of Tk 6 to 10 a kg. Traders blamed heavy supply.
A field trial in Gopalganj found BINA Sarisha-11 out-yielding BARI Sarisha-14 and a local mustard variety, and scientists say it could help cut edible oil imports.
