LivestockIn a 4 June 2026 chart, USDA's Economic Research Service projected 228.8 pounds of beef, pork, broiler and turkey meat and 22.5 dozen eggs per American consumer in 2026, rising to 229.4 pounds and 22.9 dozen in 2027.
AgribusinessGuinea and the World Bank Group launched the Guinea AgriConnect Compact in Conakry on April 30, 2026, prioritising rice and poultry to cut imports, maize and soybeans as inputs, and fonio and mangoes for export, with hundreds of thousands of jobs targeted by 2030.
AgribusinessAkij Agro Feed Limited, the feed company of Akij Resource, honoured 34 of its top business partners at a ceremony in Banani, Dhaka, on 11 April 2026. The company says it began operating in January 2025 and now sells 67 feed products.
AgribusinessFor four months, marginal poultry farmers in Bangladesh say they have sold eggs at Tk 6.5 to 7 against a production cost of Tk 9.5 to 10, and many small farms are closing as a result.
AgribusinessGreen chilli fell from Tk 140 to Tk 90 a kilogram and broiler chicken from Tk 180 to Tk 170 at Mechhua Bazar in Mymensingh on 26 February 2026, a week into Ramadan, buyers and sellers told Jagonews24.
LivestockWriting a day after Bangladesh's first National Livestock Week ended on 2 December 2025, a public relations officer of the Fisheries and Livestock Information Office argued that better breeds and technology have transformed the sector, but native breeds must be protected and animal protein made affordable.
Shamim Al Mamun of Sakhipur in Tangail began with 500 quail chicks and now has about 25,000 birds and his own hatchery.
LivestockRezaul Islam Montu became self-reliant with a quail farm in Naliardangi village, Magura Sadar. His eggs went beyond local markets to Dhaka, and the two-and-a-half-acre farm gave work to 14 to 15 young men from the village.
Ramadan demand has lifted milk prices to Tk 40-50 a litre, giving dairy farmers some relief after the lockdown collapse, though they fear what comes after.
Unstable prices are pushing Joypurhat's 10,000 chicken farms, 40 hatcheries and 11 feed mills between profit and loss, putting over a lakh livelihoods at risk.
