FruitsJapan suspended fresh mango imports from India for the 2026 season after its inspectors reported faults at a vapour heat treatment plant in Uttar Pradesh, while talks on Bangladeshi mangoes were under way.
Despite flash-flood losses in the haor region, officials say overall boro output is satisfactory and the government has taken a series of steps to meet its 18 lakh tonne procurement target.
Japan has again banned mango imports from India, nearly two decades after lifting its last ban, after finding flaws in Indian pest control earlier this year.
Aman paddy prices have fallen sharply amid continued rice imports, leaving farmers worried about getting a fair price for the boro crop about to be harvested.
Although cotton is the main raw material of Bangladesh's garment industry, the country imports about 97 per cent of what it needs, and domestic output has stalled at around 2 lakh bales.
AgribusinessCustoms at Benapole land port said they found Indian hilsa in a consignment declared as freshwater fish on the night of 13 January 2026 and seized it; customs put the hilsa's market value at about Tk 30 lakh.
The salt season has begun in Cox's Bazar but most farmers have not returned to the fields, saying prices below production cost have left 3.5 lakh tonnes of last year's salt unsold.
Bangladesh has met its onion demand from its own harvest this season, leaving farmers happy with prices while Indian growers and traders struggle to sell.
Bangladesh's annual fruit output has grown from about one crore tonnes to 1.5 crore tonnes in a dozen years, with most fruits up but jackfruit and coconut down.
Imported fruit prices in Dhaka have come down from last month's highs, but traders and buyers say they are still far from normal.
The farm machinery market has grown to about Tk 12,000 crore as labour shortages push mechanisation, but local firms supply less than a third and about 80 percent is imported.
Raw materials for Bangladesh's roughly Tk 50,000 crore feed industry have become cheaper, but feed prices have not come down.
Agriculture Secretary Dr Mohammad Emdad Ullah Mian said Bangladesh exported 1,300 tonnes of mangoes last year and could lift that to 50,000 tonnes.
