The European Parliament has voted against a Commission proposal to let fertiliser and other products be temporarily lifted out of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism when prices spike, but Ireland South MEP Seán Kelly says the 362-272 margin gives its opponents a weak mandate for the trilogue on
Titas resumed gas supply on Saturday night to one of the country's largest urea plants at Tarakandi in Jamalpur, shut since 15 February; acting manager Delwar Hossain says it will take at least 15 days to bring the plant back into production.
Farmers and fish farmers in Natore's Lalpur upazila say fertiliser allocated to BCIC and BADC dealers is passing through illegal hoarders and coming back through sub-dealers and unlicensed retailers at Tk 400-500 a bag above the government price, without vouchers; the upazila agriculture officer say
The agriculture ministry's allocation letter of 14 September covers October demand in full, 70,052 tonnes of TSP, 150,910 of DAP and 93,654 of MOP, with all TSP from BADC and 1,000 tonnes of DAP from BCIC; Bogura gets 4,540 tonnes of MOP and Rajshahi 3,360, and early imports, stocks and field moni
Farmers in Ulipur, Kurigram, surrounded a sub-assistant agriculture officer at Gabtali bazar on Friday evening, alleging that dealers are not selling urea at the government price while retailers charge up to Tk 50 a kilogram; police freed him after about half an hour.
A mobile court found 21 tonnes of fertiliser beyond the official allocation in an unlisted warehouse of BCIC dealer SS Traders in Boalkhali union, seized it and fined the manager Tk 15,000 under the Fertiliser Management Act.
At Gabtola bazar in Nageshwari, Kurigram, farmers who arrived at the scheduled hour found the dealer's 80 sacks already gone; they confined a sub-assistant agriculture officer in the warehouse and blocked the road with tree trunks until the UNO freed him around noon.
Farmers who arrived at a dealer's point in Nageshwari's Gabtala Bazar to find the fertiliser gone blocked the Madarganj-Kachakata road with tree trunks on Friday morning and confined a sub-assistant agriculture officer in the warehouse for about four hours.
Farmers in four Faridpur upazilas have petitioned the deputy commissioner, alleging dealers charge Tk 10-12 a kilogram above the government rate for subsidised fertiliser and refuse to issue cash memos.
The Bakshiganj upazila administration stopped a van in Tupkarchar village of Merurchar union at around 1am on Thursday night and seized 23 sacks of fertiliser; officials are tracing where the consignment came from and where it was headed.
After a drought-hit season, early autumn is the time to check which fields need sampling for 2027; results are valid for four years and without them cereal growers cannot apply chemical phosphorus.
The Efficient Fertilizer Consortium's 2026 awards fund university and government teams in the United States, Canada, Denmark and Israel to test enhanced-efficiency fertilisers, biofertilisers, placement and cover crops across corn, soybean, cotton, irrigated and dryland systems under common field-tr
With anhydrous ammonia averaging $1,057 a ton in early July, up almost a third on the year, University of Illinois researchers say timing, split application and the MRTN calculator matter more than ever.
