The roughly Tk 7,000 crore PARTNER programme has reached 22 percent implementation in three years and three months; on 6 October Dr Md Shakhawat Hossain Sharif, who helped design it, was made project director.
AgribusinessThe IDA credit will import 600,000 tonnes, 500,000 of them urea, for the Aman and Boro seasons; BADC and BCIC will carry out the project.
EnvironmentWest Bengal has sought Rs 1,350 crore from the ADB and World Bank backing for a Rs 4,100 crore project to protect the Indian Sundarbans, and both lenders have reportedly agreed in principle; expanding mangroves, keeping out salt water and fish-based livelihoods are part of the plan.
Meeting World Bank president Ajay Banga in New York, prime minister Tarique Rahman sought support for the family card and farmer card programmes.
Launched with Prime Minister Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed, the World Bank Group and IFAD, the compact targets 10,000 producers, a 25% rise in livestock output, 44% in horticulture and 5,000 jobs, with US$243 million of investment needs to 2030 to be co-financed by IFAD, AfDB, IsDB and FAO; IFAD has put
AgribusinessIn July 2026 the World Bank described how a young graduate running a Better Life Farming centre in Saidpur, Nilphamari, serves more than 500 farmers across five villages, part of a plan to train over 1,000 agri-entrepreneurs in Bangladesh.
AgribusinessA World Bank Group report released on June 29, 2026 estimated that an extra US$12 billion a year for water-efficient irrigation and farm innovation, with policy reform, could help create 5 million jobs in the region by 2050 and lift cereal yields by 72 percent.
AgrotechIn June 2026 the World Bank reported that 35,000 smallholders in Cameroon were obtaining improved seed and fertilizer through the e-voucher system of PATNUC, a project it backs, while a national challenge matched agritech startups with farmer groups.
EnvironmentThe World Bank-backed Second Irrigation and Drainage Improvement Project (IDIP-2) rehabilitated canals and hydraulic structures in four southern regions, improving irrigation and drainage on more than 100,000 hectares and bringing remote pump control.
AgribusinessA World Bank report released in Dhaka on 15 June 2026 found that Bangladesh spends about a tenth of its public budget on agriculture but concentrates it on fertilizer subsidies and rice, leaving research, advice, irrigation and market access underfunded.
EnvironmentOn 12 June 2026 the World Bank approved $95.75 million for the Kyrgyz Republic National Irrigation Investment Program, which was expected to improve irrigation services on about 82,000 hectares and benefit more than 450,000 people.
The national framework aims to improve food and nutrition security for close to three million people by 2030 and to support the creation of more than 2.6 million jobs by 2035.
AgribusinessGuinea and the World Bank Group launched the Guinea AgriConnect Compact in Conakry on April 30, 2026, prioritising rice and poultry to cut imports, maize and soybeans as inputs, and fonio and mangoes for export, with hundreds of thousands of jobs targeted by 2030.
