Govt to buy 70,000 tonnes of fertiliser for current Aman season
Star Business Report
2 September 2026 Business
No shortage of fertiliser - Says agri minister
UNB, Dhaka
30 August 2026 Agriculture
No fertiliser crisis in Bangladesh: Agriculture minister
Our Correspondent, Faridpur
29 August 2026 Agriculture
Bangladesh to import 480,000 tonnes of Canadian fertiliser
UNB, Dhaka
29 August 2026 Agriculture
Fertiliser stocks ample, group trying to create artificial crisis: Agriculture minister
Our Correspondent, Munshiganj
26 August 2026 Agriculture
Govt to import 365,000 tonnes of fertiliser to shore up stocks
Star Business Report
24 August 2026 Business
Farmers break into Kurigram fertiliser warehouse, take 197 urea sacks
Our Correspondent, Lalmonirhat
23 August 2026 Agriculture

India's summer-sown crop planting lags on uneven monsoon rains

Farmers in India have fallen behind in planting key summer-sown crops such as rice, cotton, corn and soybeans due to the uneven distribution of monsoon rainfall, although they could catch up in the coming weeks if sufficient rain occurs.
9 July 2023

Fertiliser price rose by 105%: ActionAid report

The cost of food, fuel, and fertiliser in some of the world’s most vulnerable communities has escalated due to the food and energy crisis, which is attributed to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to a new study conducted by ActionAid
2 July 2023

93 tonnes of green chilli imported from India

About 93 tonnes of green chillies arrived in the country within a week after Bangladesh allowed the import of the kitchen essential due to skyrocketing prices, according to a notification from the Ministry of Agriculture
2 July 2023

Raising 'Dhabal Goru': A legacy on verge of extinction

Akhtar Hossain, a farmer of Tengor village of Mirkadim, Munshiganj, formed a special bonding with his three cows. He treated them like his own children and provided them with a comfortable living space, good food, and regular care
28 June 2023

Banker shines in cattle farming

Ahsan Sikder took up cattle rearing in 2013, a couple of years after he graduated from Rajshahi University’s Marketing department
28 June 2023

'Bangladesh lost $3.72 billion in 20 years for climate change'

Swiss embassy's Bangladesh Microinsurance Market Development Programme finds
22 June 2023

Govt to spend Tk 17.5 crore on TCB’s smart cards

Infrastructure Investment Facilitation Company will help digitise the cards
22 June 2023

Pran Agro to raise Tk 262.5 crore through bonds

The coupon rate of the bond is 8.88%
19 June 2023

Boro, Aman Procurement: Syndicate embezzles Tk 40 lakh public fund

A government audit team discovered that a syndicate in Sirajganj has embezzled over Tk 40 lakh public funds, designated for procuring Boro and Aman paddy.
15 June 2023

Country has surplus sacrificial animals: livestock minister

Fisheries and Livestock Minister SM Rezaul Karim today said that the country is experiencing a surplus of sacrificial animals, rather than a shortage.
14 June 2023

Aman growers to get Tk 33.2 crore govt incentive

Around 4.9 lakh farmers will get seeds, fertilisers free of cost
28 May 2023

Govt lifts ban on aromatic rice export

Senior Commerce Secretary Tapan Kanti Ghosh shared the information today
24 May 2023

Contract farming takes over poultry industry

In the last week of March, marginal poultry farmer Delowar Hossain bought nearly 4,000 one-day-old Sonali chicks from a large poultry company. After rearing them for 40 days, when he tried selling them, he found it shockingly difficult to recover his production cost, let alone make any profit.
22 May 2023

Low yield frustrates Moulvibazar litchi growers

Litchi growers in Moulvibazar fear a low production of the juicy summer fruit this year due to unfavourable weather condition during the peak time of flowering.
17 May 2023

Cultivation of pumpkin, maize brings joy to char farmers

Members of Agamir Sanchay Samobay Samity, a social organisation in Lalmonirhat, have a huge success in crops cultivation by bringing unused sandy land in the Teesta river basin areas under group farming, also known as community farming.
16 May 2023

Cyclone Mocha forces Chalanbeel farmers to begin harvesting paddy

Farmer Anisul Haque, of Boailmari village in Pabna’s Chatmohar upazila under the Chalanbeel region, started harvesting paddy last week, even though it did not ripen fully
11 May 2023

BINA Dhan-25 shows hope

Mannan Joaddar cultivated BINA Dhan-25, a newly developed variety of paddy, on one bigha of land in Moghi village of Magura 93 days ago.
11 May 2023

Mocha: 4 directives to avoid possible crop damage

DAE asks farmers to harvest 80% ripe paddy, mature mango and crops
10 May 2023

Boro Harvest: Good yield delights coastal farmers

Boro cultivation has brought smiles to a good number of farmers at many coastal villages in Barguna, with a bumper yield of the paddy this season.
8 May 2023

Urea production at JFCL halts

Urea production at Jamuna Fertilizer Company Ltd (JFCL) at Tarakandi in Jamalpur district today halted due to a technical issue
8 May 2023