CropsTea Board chairman Major General Mesbah Uddin Ahmed says national output is up 17 percent and the north's up 40 percent, and BTRI has been told to cut pesticide use to protect quality; fertiliser for plains growers has been allocated.
VegetablesFarid Hossain of Boda grows over a hundred thousand vegetable seedlings at a time in 10,000 cocopeat-filled plastic trays under insect netting, and says his seedling hub nets him more than Tk 100,000 a month.
CropsFarmers in Barashashi union of Panchagarh's Boda say they got no advice from their block's sub-assistant agriculture officer even as pests damaged their aman; he denies it and the upazila officer says the complaints will be checked.
BangladeshBangladesh's first agro-ecological zone stretches across Panchagarh, Thakurgaon and north-western Dinajpur on land laid down by an ancient Tista river fan. Its light, acidic soils set the rules for farming, and researchers say satellite data and machine learning will help farmers only when they are checked in real fields.
First described in India in 1936, the coral red kukri was recorded in Bangladesh only in February 2021, and one rescuer has since found 66 of them.
FruitsOn Sunday 31 May 2026 a brother and sister, Asif and Sathi Akter, drowned in a pond next to their home at Kekupara in Chaklahat union of Panchagarh Sadar upazila. Locals believed they fell in while picking mangoes from a tree on the bank.
A rare porcupine caught by villagers in Panchagarh was handed to the Forest Department and sent to Tetulia Eco Park.
Locals in Boda, Panchagarh, chased an unfamiliar black animal that turned out to be an endangered pangolin, now in the care of the Forest Department.
A five-foot endangered python caught in a paddy field net in Debiganj was rescued alive and will be released in a Dinajpur forest.
EnvironmentAfter an injured nilgai from Panchagarh died at the Dulahazara Safari Park and a Kishoreganj gravedigger's horse was found killed, a Jagonews24 column of 28 May 2025 by Shahana Huda Ranjana asked why people kill animals for no reason.
A nilgai injured while crossing the border fence was rescued from a maize field in Panchagarh and is being treated by livestock staff.
CropsIn December 2024 Jagonews24 reported that China, Darjeeling and mandarin oranges were spreading across 16 districts of northern Bangladesh, helped by the climate, the soil and support from the Department of Agricultural Extension.
A 14-foot python found in a border bamboo grove in Tentulia was rescued by the forest department and sent to Ramsagar National Park for release.
