Fisheries and Livestock Minister Mohammad Amin Ur Rashid said the government is focusing on river dredging, stopping jatka catches and ending current-net use to protect hilsa.
The agriculture ministry has ordered implementation of a revised fertiliser dealer policy that sets at least nine dealers per upazila and replaces separate BCIC and BADC dealerships with a single system.
Launching a 10,000-tree drive in Kamrangirchar, DSCC administrator Md Abdus Salam said tree planting must be matched by clean rivers, canals and drains and a social environmental movement.
The food ministry has begun distributing rice under the Food Friendly Programme, giving 55 lakh cardholders 30 kg a month at Tk 15 a kg for six months.
The government will buy 30,000 tonnes of bagged granular urea from Karnaphuli Fertilizer Company (KAFCO) in the first lot for the 2026-27 fiscal year.
The government will build a 10,000-tonne fertiliser buffer warehouse in Lakshmipur at a cost of Tk 49.14 crore to strengthen storage and distribution.
Water resources minister Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Anee said rivers and canals cannot be protected without coordinated work by all ministries and agencies.
A delegation from the US Department of Agriculture visited a farmers' mini cold storage run by DAE in Savar and praised the technology.
A 30-bigha integrated farm and agro-tourism project in Bogura has handed land deeds to its 1,000 founder-owners and raised its share price.
EnvironmentA joint drive in the Adampur beat of the Rajkandi range at Kamalganj, Moulvibazar, recovered about five acres of reserved forest on 16 July 2026. According to the Forest Department and local sources, local influential people had long occupied the land with malta, pineapple, lemon and betel nut gardens.
A Tree Monitoring App will soon be launched to track the location, care and survival of every sapling planted under the government's 250 million tree programme.
CropsIn Cumilla on 11 July 2026, agriculture minister Mohammad Amin Ur Rashid said flood-hit farmers were being listed at union and ward level and would then receive seed, fertiliser and farm inputs.
The government has set a Boro 2026 procurement target of 5 lakh tonnes of paddy, 12 lakh tonnes of parboiled rice and 1 lakh tonnes of atap rice.
