VegetablesFruit and vegetable output rose while export earnings fell over the long run, and in a March 2025 column agriculture specialist Samiran Biswas urged better quality, storage and processing.
EnvironmentVillagers in Kalkini, Madaripur, trapped a crocodile about eight feet long, tied it with rope and beat it to death on 29 March 2025. The Forest Department said legal action would follow a post-mortem.
A CODEC project released 1,773 turtle hatchlings on the Ukhiya and Teknaf coasts of Cox's Bazar in two and a half months of this breeding season.
After 13 years in Saudi Arabia, Delwar Hossain set up a commercial mushroom farm in Lakshmipur Sadar and now sells 20-25 kg a day.
Under a new irrigation policy, boro rice cultivation in the Rajshahi agricultural region fell by 10,200 hectares this season, which farmers blame on a lack of water.
Manikganj farmers are busy harvesting khesari, hoping the grass pea will make up for a year of losses despite lower yields and a smaller area.
A 50-year-old woman in Gafargaon, Mymensingh, died after a snake hiding in a clay pot bit her as she reached inside.
Farmers leasing abandoned Water Development Board land by Jhalokathi's Gabkhan river have grown cotton successfully for 15 years with Cotton Development Board support.
Bhola farmers with a bumper watermelon crop say commission agents and wholesalers fix low prices, while retail prices run several times higher.
FruitsDespite cuts to supplementary duty and advance tax on fresh fruit imports for Ramadan, traders in Dhaka said on 26 March 2025 that imported fruit, led by apples and black grapes, had become dearer still.
CropsAbout 1,200 acres of char land in four unions of Mirsarai, Chattogram, were under watermelon in the 2025 season, up from 145 acres in 2022. The upazila agriculture office expected 35,000 to 40,000 tonnes worth about Tk 100 crore.
CropsShibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj produced strawberries worth about Tk 70 crore a year, its agriculture officer said in March 2025, as mango growers switched to the fruit but still lacked a local market.
With the Baithakhali river dried up, irrigation has stopped on 3,000 acres of boro land in Kishoreganj's Austagram upazila, leaving thousands of farmers worried.
