AgribusinessA month-by-month guide to what to sow, plant and harvest in Bangladesh's vegetable plots and orchards through the Kharif-1, Kharif-2 and Rabi seasons, from Baishakh to Chaitra, checked against the Agriculture Information Service.
Chuadanga nursery owner Omar Faruk has grown sweet China oranges on flat land and is now known as 'Kamla Faruk', after the Bengali word for orange.
Miscreants have cut down the banana trees of a farmer in Naldanga upazila of Natore who took up farming after failing to find a job.
Profitable yields are driving commercial malta cultivation in Khagrachhari, and the hill-grown fruit now sells across Bangladesh.
Water chestnut, a nutritious aquatic fruit long grown in China, is now being farmed commercially in Satkhira and Naogaon.
Low costs and high profits have made kul (jujube) farming popular with smallholders in Satkhira, where the area under the fruit grows every year.
A salaried worker in Pirojpur town has built a rooftop garden of 40 kinds of fruit and vegetables that now largely feeds his family.
Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute scientists have released three jackfruit varieties that together can supply the national fruit through most of the year.
Farmers in Joypurhat and Rajshahi are making money from strawberries and seedlings, and BARI research says the crop is highly profitable.
The first-ever official mango picking dates caused confusion and losses, as dates differed by district and growers said they were not consulted.
Despite plentiful mangoes, growers and traders say fixed picking dates caused a glut and low prices, while officials defend the rule.
