Agriculture Minister Mohammad Amin Ur Rashid said higher output, storage and technology would end imports of onion, green chilli and tomato within at most four years.
CropsOn 21 June 2026, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University's outreach department trained marginal farmers at the Keraniganj Agricultural Training Centre in Dhaka to grow ginger in sacks and produce onions with improved methods.
The Department of Agricultural Marketing has ordered its officers across the country to act against traders who take 2 to 6 kg of extra produce per 40 kg from farmers.
A good onion crop in Meherpur has left farmers facing losses, with market prices below production costs and fears of imports during the harvest.
CropsA farmer in Chhatmadhai village of Kurigram's Rajarhat upazila grew onion seed on about 60 decimals in the 2025-26 season, the district's first such effort, and local agriculture officials said home-grown seed could cut farmers' costs.
VegetablesAt Naldanga haat, Natore's largest onion market, farmers said in early April 2026 that onions selling at Tk 600 to Tk 1,000 a maund did not cover their costs; traders blamed imports from India and the lack of storage.
CropsBulb onion covered about 4,262 hectares in Madaripur's five upazilas this season against a target of 4,050, and the seed crop reached about 74 hectares against 42, the district DAE office and farmers said.
Falling onion prices in Faridpur mean a farmer selling a maund of onions can buy a kilo of beef but not a kilo of hilsa, fuelling frustration among growers.
Onion cultivation in Sreepur, Magura, has exceeded its target and yields are good, but farmers fear losses because of costly seed and low market prices.
Because it is profitable, onion seed cultivation is growing in Manikganj every year, where the seed is known locally as "black gold".
Manikganj farmers had a good murikata onion harvest but are selling at Tk 1,000 to Tk 1,100 a maund, and many say they will lose money.
Faridpur's onion farmers are selling at Tk 950 to Tk 1,100 a maund, well below what they say it costs to grow.
CropsIn late December 2025, at the start of the Bengali month of Poush, farmers in Magura's four upazilas were transplanting early onion seedlings through cold and fog; the district's agriculture office put onion area at 858 hectares.
