FruitsIn a notice on 20 April 2026, Rajshahi University barred the picking of unripe mangoes, lychees, jackfruit and other campus fruit, and said the ripe harvest would be shared equally through a "Madhuphal Utsab" fruit festival.
With rivers rising, the Sunamganj Water Development Board has asked farmers to harvest haor paddy quickly to limit losses from a possible early flood.
The environment ministry has asked qualified volunteer organisations to send concept papers to take part in the 25 crore tree-planting programme.
A good onion crop in Meherpur has left farmers facing losses, with market prices below production costs and fears of imports during the harvest.
CropsIn April 2026 farmers in Munshiganj, where potatoes were planted on 34,660 hectares, said wholesale prices were below their production costs and they were losing money on every maund sold. They called for TCB purchases and more exports.
Sunflowers grown on about 984 hectares in Pirojpur this season have an estimated market value of Tk 20 crore and are drawing visitors to the fields.
Farmers in Bhairab, Kishoreganj, have more than 28,000 animals ready for Eid-ul-Azha but fear that feed costs and cattle imports from India will eat into their profits.
A 1995-born woman surnamed Qin returned to her village in Guilin to help her father farm more than 60,000 venomous snakes, a business that earns over 1 million yuan a year.
Intense heat and sudden changes in humidity are causing litchis to crack on the trees in Rajshahi, leaving farmers worried.
Entrepreneurs Ruhul Amin and Hashem Ali have built a grape garden of the foreign Bainur variety in Phulbari, Kurigram, that is drawing visitors and new growers.
FisheriesOn the night of 18 April 2026 the Coast Guard stopped two trucks under the Kanchpur bridge in Sonargaon, Narayanganj, and seized 2,200 kg of jatka and 3.7 crore illegal shrimp fry worth about Tk 2 crore. The fry were released into the Buriganga.
LivestockIn April 2026 a Burma-breed bull raised for five and a half years on lawyer Mazmul Pramanik's farm in Dauljor, Aditmari, Lalmonirhat, was offered for Eid-ul-Azha at an asking price of Tk 12 lakh. Farm workers had named it 'Zayed Khan'.
CropsOn 18 April 2026 the government raised diesel from Tk 100 to Tk 115 a litre. Jagonews24 calculated that farmers' annual diesel bill would rise by about Tk 1,566 crore, just as Boro paddy was being harvested.
