HealthLitchis are a nutritious summer fruit, but research on child deaths in India's Muzaffarpur linked illness to natural toxins in the fruit among undernourished children who skipped an evening meal, while a Bangladesh study tied a 2012 Dinajpur outbreak to orchard pesticides, not to eating litchis.
FruitsOn 11 May 2026 the first Madrazi litchi of the season was selling in Dinajpur town at Tk 300 to Tk 320 a hundred, although the agriculture office said the sour, half-coloured fruit was not mature and ripe litchi was still 10 to 12 days away.
FruitsIn May 2026 Dinajpur growers feared a smaller litchi crop as storms and hail split and dropped fruit weeks before harvest; the DAE said only about one to one and a half hectares were ruined.
FruitsOn 1 May 2026 about 5,000 litchis picked from the trees of Bijoy-24 Hall at Rajshahi University were shared equally among 135 rooms, including the PhD block, and the hall's staff, with 25 to 30 fruits for each room.
FruitsA long heatwave and drought in April 2026 were shedding litchi fruitlets in Ishwardi, Pabna, after a record bloom, with the local Mozaffarpuri variety worst hit. Officials urged regular irrigation.
FruitsIn a notice on 20 April 2026, Rajshahi University barred the picking of unripe mangoes, lychees, jackfruit and other campus fruit, and said the ripe harvest would be shared equally through a "Madhuphal Utsab" fruit festival.
FruitsIn early March 2026, 80 to 85 per cent of litchi trees in the main growing areas of Ishwardi upazila in Pabna were in blossom, and growers and agriculture officials were hoping for a bumper crop after a poor 2025 season.
AgrotechA field knapsack sprayer cannot reach the top of a tall mango, litchi or coconut tree. Here is which orchard sprayers can, what to check before buying, and how to protect the person spraying, from FAO and WHO guidance.
FruitsIn the 2024 harvest, 25,000-30,000 women sorting and counting litchis in Ishwardi, Pabna, were paid Tk 400-500 a day; they said they earned less than men for equal work, while growers said men are paid more for climbing the trees.
FruitsIn early April 2024 Dinajpur's litchi trees were covered in blossom. The DAE put the district's litchi area at 5,787 hectares with a 30,000-tonne target, and growers hoped to recover losses from the 2023 heat.
FruitsIn Falgun 2020, mango and litchi trees in Agailjhara, Barishal, and Sreepur, Gazipur, carried heavy blossom, and growers hoped for a good crop if storms and hail held off.
