FruitsAfter losses the year before, Meherpur's lychee growers and traders reported a strong harvest and satisfactory prices in May 2026, with the Department of Agricultural Extension putting the district's lychee area at about 730 hectares and expected output at about 6,800 tonnes.
Fourteen people, 11 of them from one family, were hurt in fox attacks in two villages of Nandail, Mymensingh, on 21 May.
Tighter border surveillance has kept Indian cattle out of Panchagarh's Eid markets this year, leaving them full of local cattle and relieving farmers.
FruitsOpening the 2026 mango export season in Dhaka on 21 May 2026, Agriculture Minister Mohammad Amin Ur Rashid said all barriers to exporting mangoes and other farm produce would be removed, and named high air cargo fares as a main problem.
FruitsOn 20 May 2026 the Shahid Ziaur Rahman Hall union at Rajshahi University picked mangoes from the hall's trees and delivered an equal share to every resident student, after two other halls had done the same with litchis.
Mymensingh has a surplus of sacrificial animals, but at the district's biggest cattle market buyers are scarce and farmers are getting low offers.
Hundreds of trees planted under social forestry along a Faridpur canal have been felled during re-excavation, and officials and a BNP leader blame each other.
Two huge bulls from a Shahrasti farm, dubbed "Jora King", are drawing crowds in Chandpur ahead of Eid-ul-Azha with an asking price of about Tk 13 lakh.
A large python found on a house ceiling in Moulvibazar's Sreemangal was rescued unharmed and handed to the forest department for release.
AgribusinessOn 21 May 2026, buyers at Rajshahi's City Haat crowded around medium cattle priced at Tk 80,000 to Tk 1 lakh, while the district had about 92,000 more sacrificial animals than it needed.
Rarity, history, special processing and luxury marketing push the prices of five of the world's most expensive teas far beyond an ordinary cup.
At a road safety programme in a Rampura school, a senior DMP traffic officer asked pupils to save half a day's tiffin money to plant a garden.
A rare albino buffalo named "Donald Trump" at a Narayanganj farm has become a social media star before Eid-ul-Azha and been picked up by international media.
