CropsFarmers in Pabna said in early April 2026 that, after fertiliser prices rose, they could not get enough diesel to irrigate boro rice. The district agriculture department called the hardship temporary and said output would not suffer much.
A severe diesel shortage has almost halted farm transport in Chapainawabganj, leaving strawberry growers unable to reach Dhaka markets and facing heavy losses.
Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei has asked Iranians to plant fruit trees in towns and villages as memorials to those killed in the ongoing war.
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.
With Bengali New Year about two weeks away, hilsa prices in Rajshahi have suddenly risen by Tk 300-400 a kg.
FisheriesThe Coast Guard said it seized 42 maunds of jatka, young hilsa, from a Dhaka-bound bus at Dapdapia in Nalchity, Jhalakathi, on 1 April 2026; a mobile court fined the bus's driver, supervisor and helper a total of Tk 5,000.
FruitsIn a Facebook post on 1 April 2026, Amjanatar Dal member secretary Md Tarek Rahman wrote that about one in ten of his cash-on-delivery mango orders had been fake, and alleged that Jamaat-e-Islami supporters placed many of them to harass him.
Roadside sharbat and fruit juices in Dhaka are cheap and refreshing, but unhygienic preparation and unsafe water and ice can carry disease.
A potato sandwich is an easy, light afternoon snack that suits both children and adults.
Low costs, little labour and good prices are driving an expansion of groundnut farming on the chars of Narsingdi.
A python weighing about 40kg was rescued from a house in Kamalganj, Moulvibazar, and released the same night in Lawachhara National Park.
Four people from Suwalok union, including a father and his son, were sent to jail on court orders for poaching deer in Bandarban.
CookingOn 31 March 2026 Jagonews24's lifestyle desk published a recipe for a restaurant-style vegetable korma made with papaya, potato, carrot, mushroom and yardlong beans in a cashew, poppy seed and fried onion paste with yoghurt.
