CropsIn April 2025, Bimal Chandra Das and Sebika Rani Das were lifting the first onions they had grown commercially in Ichhakhali union of Mirsarai, Chattogram, and reported a good yield.
CropsMaize covered 12,210 hectares in Kishoreganj in the 2024-25 season, above the 12,100-hectare target, as haor farmers chose a crop they could harvest before the monsoon floods.
Dr Forkan Ali argues that mud crab farming in Bangladesh's coastal belt could cut unemployment and earn foreign currency, and sets out how to do it.
Shariatpur housewife Labony Akter taught herself from Google and YouTube to rear Swiss albino mice and now earns at least Tk 20,000 a month.
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.
Farmers leasing abandoned Water Development Board land by Jhalokathi's Gabkhan river have grown cotton successfully for 15 years with Cotton Development Board support.
CropsMd Hasib of Bandar upazila, Narayanganj, gave up driving to grow mushrooms in early 2020. In March 2025 he said the family-run farm in a rented house earned him about Tk 7-8 lakh a year.
A network engineer in Meherpur's Mujibnagar upazila started growing strawberries for his daughter and has become a successful farmer, selling over Tk 18 lakh worth.
A disabled farmer in Tangail's Sakhipur has a bumper lemon crop on 5 acres and hopes to sell Tk 3 to 4 lakh worth during Ramadan.
Bangladesh's world-famous pink pearls and abundant mussels could make pearl farming a source of foreign currency and jobs, a researcher argues.
Purple and yellow cauliflower and broccoli are now grown commercially in Feni's Dagonbhuiyan, where an entrepreneur says they fetch double the price of white.
Commercial buffalo farming has changed the fortunes of Rasel Bepari and dozens of other farmers in Pabna, where buffalo numbers have soared.
Titumir College student Ali Ahmad, whose research focuses on climate-smart agriculture, was one of ten chosen nationally for a Swedish embassy fellowship.
