AgribusinessThe agriculture ministry is considering farm processing and export zones at Khetlal in Joypurhat and Dupchanchia in Bogura, with 217.78 acres of state land in Panchagarh also to be assessed, after a feasibility study.
CropsThe government aims to bring about 2.4 crore farmers into its registration, input support and farmer card programme within four years, 43 lakh of them this fiscal year. Data on 19.25 lakh farmers has been collected and 9 lakh bank accounts opened.
CropsThe parliamentary standing committee on the agriculture ministry says fertiliser stocks are ample, formed a three-member team to inspect distribution and illegal hoarding, and asked for disputed dealer contracts to be held back.
AgribusinessMore than 47,000 people applied for about 5,000 fertiliser dealerships; people involved say about 80 percent of those named in the agriculture ministry's partial list for 55 districts are inexperienced holders of new trade licences.
CropsPrime Minister Tarique Rahman is to launch the second pilot phase at Fulgazi in Feni; 100,047 farmers are to receive money on their cards to buy farm inputs.
The finance ministry has exempted the education, health and agriculture ministries from its freeze on new government building work.
Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs Minister Saching Prue called on Agriculture Minister Mohammad Amin Ur Rashid at the Secretariat on Sunday, seeking training for hill farmers in modern techniques and an end to tobacco and narcotic-plant cultivation in remote areas; the two ministries agreed to work tog
The agriculture ministry's allocation letter of 14 September covers October demand in full, 70,052 tonnes of TSP, 150,910 of DAP and 93,654 of MOP, with all TSP from BADC and 1,000 tonnes of DAP from BCIC; Bogura gets 4,540 tonnes of MOP and Rajshahi 3,360, and early imports, stocks and field moni
Demand for the four main fertilisers is 5.8 million tonnes this year; 1.219 million tonnes have been distributed since July and 1.2579 million tonnes are in stock, the ministry told the standing committee, where at least three members reported local scarcity.
At the first meeting of the 13th parliament's standing committee on agriculture, the minister set out plans to cut import dependence and export farm produce, protect soil health, implement the 2026 fertiliser-dealer policy, open flower and soil research centres at Gadkhali, expand cotton, maize, swe
Dealer-level prices for urea, TSP, DAP and MOP have each been cut by one taka a kilogram, lifting the dealer margin for the first time since 2009.
An order signed on 10 September by deputy secretary Md Maksudul Islam sets up the room in the ministry's Room 528 under the additional secretary for fertiliser management and inputs; two dealers' complaints had been logged by 2 pm on Sunday, joint secretary Akhtarunnahar said.
Meeting Ministry of Agriculture officials at the Secretariat, Prime Minister Tarique Rahman ordered effective steps to grow at home what Bangladesh can grow; the ministry reported mustard output up from 824,000 to 1.541 million tonnes in three years, 1,090 crop varieties, 2,617 solar irrigation syst
