The Regional Agricultural Research Station at Akbarpur, Moulvibazar, has developed 11 fruit varieties since 1982 and is now adapting fruits, vegetables and oil crops to the region.
FruitsChina imported $18.94 billion of fruit in 2025, led by durian from Thailand and Vietnam, according to its food and farm produce trade chamber. A Jagonews24 report in June 2026 cited analysts who saw the market as an opportunity for Bangladeshi fruit.
Dinajpur's Bedana litchi, now recognised as a geographical indication product, has a history of some 250 years that local tradition traces to one farmer in Mashimpur village.
Online fruit selling, led by thousands of young entrepreneurs, is growing fast in Bangladesh, with 400 to 500 tonnes of mangoes a day sold online from Chapainawabganj alone.
A venomous banded krait trapped for about a week in a house's boundary net was rescued in Sreemangal, Moulvibazar, on 27 June.
EnvironmentBangladesh's Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education said in a letter of 27 June 2026 that every government and MPO-listed secondary institution had received a Tk 5,000 climate grant to plant trees under the "One Child, One Tree" programme, due to be inaugurated on 29 June.
Rangamati's famous Honey Queen pineapple has had a record season, lifting hill families' incomes, though farmers still lack cold storage, roads and processing.
Speakers at a Jagonews24 roundtable said fruit worth Tk 25,000 to 50,000 crore is wasted every year for lack of processing, and called for coordinated action on marketing, processing and exports.
Farmers in Savar and Dhamrai near Dhaka are switching to foreign and hybrid fruits for higher profits, and scientists and environmentalists warn that local varieties could be lost for good.
EnvironmentA court in Taizhou, eastern China, convicted three men over the illegal buying, breeding and selling of protected pythons after police, according to Chinese state media, traced an escaped snake to a flat through unusually high electricity use and found 309 snakes inside.
CropsHill farmers in Bandarban were cutting back on jhum shifting cultivation for fruit orchards in 2026, drawn by better profits, demand and government support; in Sadar upazila orchards covered 5,302 hectares in 2025-26 against 155 hectares of jhum.
FruitsBananas were the world's most produced fruit in 2024, at about 139.4 million tonnes, ahead of watermelons at about 105.0 million and apples at about 97.9 million, according to FAOSTAT's December 2025 release.
Banana farming is booming in the Rangpur region, but a lack of storage and processing means large quantities of fruit are lost every year.
