Favourable weather and good prices have brought Rajshahi a bumper jute crop, and the agriculture department expects about Tk 450 crore of jute to be sold across the district's nine upazilas this season.
Bangladesh Bank has set up a Tk 2,000 crore special pre-finance fund to help frozen food exporters, lending at a maximum of 7 per cent interest.
Pran-RFL Group will invest Tk 750 crore in two closed state-owned jute mills in Khulna and Sirajganj that it has leased for 30 years.
Agreements have been signed leasing three closed state jute mills in Khulna and Sirajganj to private companies, two of them to Pran-RFL Group.
Malaysia has shown interest in expanding trade in promising Bangladeshi livestock and farm products, including the Black Bengal goat, at a meeting with the minister in Dhaka.
Mangoes in the Rajshahi region will now be bought and sold by the kilogram, ending the long-standing "dhalan" practice under which traders took extra fruit without paying for it.
FruitsIn early June 2026, after Eid-ul-Azha, Rajshahi's Baneshwar market was full of mangoes but short of buyers; Gopalbhog fell from more than Tk 2,000 a maund at the start of the season to Tk 1,400-1,600.
Satkhira's mango growers have a good crop but little profit, as crates, sacks, paper and transport now cost nearly as much as the fruit fetches.
FruitsRajshahi, Chapainawabganj, Naogaon and Natore had a target of about 12.55 lakh tonnes of mangoes in 2026, and traders estimated Tk 10,000 crore of activity around the crop, though growers said middlemen and a 54 kg maund cut their profits.
FruitsIn May 2026 growers in Ishwardi, Pabna, reported their biggest litchi crop ever, with trees that once bore 3,000 fruits carrying more than 10,000. The upazila agriculture officer expected three times the previous year's yield and over Tk 700 crore in trade, though prices were a little lower.
Buyers are returning to Dhaka's cattle markets ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, with the strongest demand at Kamalapur for small and medium cows of three to five maunds.
AgribusinessOn 23 May 2026, five days before Eid-ul-Azha, sellers at Dhaka's Gabtoli cattle market were asking Tk 1,40,000 to Tk 1,50,000 for cattle yielding four maunds of meat, but few buyers had come and traders blamed rising feed and other costs.
Leaders of the BNP and its affiliates are accused of controlling the leasing of Bogura's cattle markets before Eid-ul-Azha by managing rival bidders and filing single tenders.
