Without storage, processing technology, good packaging and easy certification, large amounts of Bangladesh's mangoes go to waste, Naogaon agri-entrepreneur Sohel Rana said.
EnvironmentLaunching a tree-planting drive in more than 29,000 secondary institutions on 29 June 2026, Prime Minister Tarique Rahman told the story of neem trees on the plain of Arafat and asked students to plant at least one tree a year.
Although Bangladesh produces more fruit, large quantities rot in season, and the fruit-processing industry cannot develop sustainably without a bigger budget for agriculture and horticulture, says economist Dr Jahangir Alam Khan.
Chapainawabganj dried fruit entrepreneur Ismail Khan Shamim says small and medium enterprises must be brought in if Bangladesh is to build a Thailand-style market for processed fruit.
FruitsAt a Dhaka roundtable on 27 June 2026, fruit expert Dr. Md. Mehedi Masud said 65 percent of Bangladesh's roughly 15.2 million tonnes of annual fruit output comes in four months, and called for storage, processing and year-round production.
A python about eight feet long got caught in a farmer's net at Hutchinsonpur in Khagrachhari and was later rescued by a Forest Department team.
AgribusinessBangladesh's fruit-processing industry was struggling with an export incentive cut from 20 to 10 per cent, costly loans and dearer raw materials, Hashem Foods managing director Md Abul Hashem told a roundtable on 27 June 2026.
The animal carried by a child in a viral video, with a porcupine walking behind, is widely claimed to be a civet, but evidence suggests it is most likely her grey pet cat.
Satkora, the aromatic citrus known as Sylhet's traditional fruit, is now almost entirely imported from India, and part of it is re-exported abroad under the name Sylheti satkora.
Formalin is never used on fruit in Bangladesh and the idea is a misconception, the project director of the DAE's exportable mango production project told a Jago News round table.
A viral video of a small child walking through paddy fields carrying a civet-like animal with a porcupine following was widely shared as Bangladeshi, but fact-checkers traced it to Sri Lanka.
Rain and upstream runoff have pushed the Dudhkumar river 23 cm above the danger mark at Pateshwari in Kurigram, and the Water Development Board warns of a short-term flood within 72 hours.
FruitsAbout a third of the watermelon grown in southern Bangladesh is rind that is thrown away; researchers said in June 2026 that rind and seeds could be made into pickles, jam, oil, feed and citrulline.
