Farmers in Naogaon have had a good aus harvest but are selling paddy at Tk 650 to Tk 800 a maund, well below cost, and are calling for government procurement in the aus season.
As farmers in Moulvibazar switch to high-yielding rice for bigger harvests, local varieties are disappearing for lack of seed conservation and research.
Favourable weather and good prices have brought Rajshahi a bumper jute crop, and the agriculture department expects about Tk 450 crore of jute to be sold across the district's nine upazilas this season.
Hilsa imported from India through Benapole at a landed cost of about Tk 514 a kg is being passed off as Padma hilsa for Tk 1,400-1,800 a kg, buyers complain.
High prices for imported fruit in Cumilla are pushing buyers towards cheaper local fruit, although local prices have also risen by Tk 10-50 a kg in a week.
Constant conflict with people, habitat destruction and food shortages have pushed Rangamati's critically endangered Asian elephants towards local extinction.
Reporters in Thakurgaon found hundreds of sacks of government fertiliser in open-market shops and alerted officials, who did not come even after a four-hour wait.
In Dinajpur's Bochaganj, the upazila health complex has become the first port of call for snakebite victims, curing every patient in recent weeks with timely antivenom.
After weeks of drought, monsoon rain has brought Rajshahi's farmland back to life, and farmers across the district are racing to transplant Aman rice seedlings.
AgribusinessOn 19 July 2026 traders at Barishal's Port Road landing centre said only 100 to 150 maunds of hilsa were arriving a day, against an expected thousand, and fish of about one kilogram sold for Tk 2,800 to Tk 3,000, sending many buyers to pangas.
On an 8,000-square-foot roof in Narayanganj, Bazlur Rashid Selim keeps more than 200 pairs of birds of 50 species purely as a hobby.
LivestockIn July 2026 the owner of a snake venom farm in Patuakhali, Abdur Razzak Biswas, said it could collect venom worth about Tk 8 crore a month, but three months after registration with the Department of Livestock Services no drug company had offered to process it.
As floodwater recedes in Cox's Bazar, the district administration's preliminary report counts 32 dead, nearly half the district inundated and heavy losses to homes, fisheries, crops and roads.
