Urea sales fell 4.1% to 18.52 million tonnes and NPK sales 22.2%, while domestic urea output rose 4.3% and NPK output dropped 35.5%; urea and MOP imports rose by more than 40%.
LivestockR-CALF USA has filed a brief in a Section 201 safeguard investigation arguing that lamb imports, almost all from Australia and New Zealand, are seriously injuring US sheep producers, citing a 14.3% rise in imports from 2021 to 2025.
AgribusinessIndia's 1.7-million-tonne urea tender, watched as a benchmark for world prices, cleared at softer levels after a year in which import prices swung from $959 a tonne to about $390.
CropsTo close a ginger shortfall of about 120,000 tonnes a year, the government wants self-sufficiency within three years through better varieties, quality seed and ginger grown in sacks around homesteads.
VegetablesGrafting tomato onto wild eggplant rootstock has raised yields, but early tomatoes that fetched Tk 100-110 a kg last year sell for Tk 50-60; Moulvibazar has no cold store for tomatoes.
CropsDepartment of Agricultural Extension figures show coffee imports rising from 264 tonnes in 2012 to 1,745 tonnes in 2025, while commercial coffee farming has spread from the three hill districts to Tangail, Rangpur and Nilphamari.
CropsWandile Sihlobo of Agbiz expects wheat imports of about 2.0 million tonnes as the 2026-27 crop is estimated at 1.8 million tonnes, while world prices have risen on logistics disruptions rather than short supply.
CropsUSDA's Grain and Feed Update shows Bangladesh imported over 1.74 million tonnes of maize in marketing year 2026, about 111,000 tonnes of it from the United States; Brazil supplied 68 percent and India 24 percent.
LivestockTracking 41 grocery stores since the tariff-rate quota was expanded, the American Farm Bureau Federation found ground beef down just 16 cents a pound while cattle prices fell, and urged President Trump to reverse course.
FruitsThe United States grew 3.87 billion pounds of watermelons in 2025, and Georgia moved ahead of Florida on more acres and above-average yields, a USDA Economic Research Service chart shows.
LivestockA USDA Foreign Agricultural Service report expects Philippine chicken imports to reach 780,000 tonnes in 2027 on food-industry demand, with Brazil taking the largest share.
Commerce minister Khandaker Abdul Muktadir says market surveillance will be tightened year-round, as lentil and edible oil imports rise sharply.
Market ManagementCrude palm and soybean oil landed at Mumbai 11 percent dearer than a year ago and sunflower 7 percent; a third round of increases since March is on the table unless vessel arrivals and a duty cut hold prices.
