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Bangladesh's only DAP fertiliser plant has been shut since June 28 over a phosphoric acid shortage, with a $64.8 million import tender awaiting government approval amid Middle East price spikes.
🌾 Agriculture & Food
Farmers across five northern districts are producing and trading organic fertiliser to restore declining soil fertility and offset chemical fertiliser shortages, with around 16,000 commercially involved.
🌾 Agriculture & Food
Bangladesh Agricultural University researchers have developed a Tk 25,000 IoT-based storage bin that can cut onion storage losses by 15-16 percent, potentially easing the country's dependence on imported onions.
🌾 Agriculture & Food
The Department of Fisheries has proposed a Tk 47.55 crore five-year project to restore silted-up baors, build fish sanctuaries and lift fish output by at least 10 percent across four south-western districts.
🌾 Agriculture & Food
Abu Sayeed Chand says his family has cultivated sugarcane for generations and that records of his supplies to Rajshahi Sugar Mills can be
🌾 Agriculture & Food
Farmers in Jamalpur's Madarganj upazila are eyeing handsome returns from chilli cultivation as the area under cultivation expands to 1,050 hectares, well above the target of 750 hectares, amid favourable weather and attractive market prices.
🌾 Agriculture & Food
Govt approves purchase of 70,000 tonnes of urea and 20,000 tonnes of phosphoric acid for agricultural input supply.
🌾 Agriculture & Food
Almost 40% of Bangladeshi children aged 12-59 months and many pregnant women have toxic amounts of lead in their blood, with lead exposure costing Bangladesh $28.6 billion in health-related economic losses in 2019 — about 8% of GDP.
🌾 Agriculture & Food
Bangladesh government plans comprehensive financial, technological and policy reforms, higher productivity, solar power investment and export diversification to restore economic viability of country's tea sector facing ageing plantations, rising costs and mounting loan defaults.
🌾 Agriculture & Food
Bangladesh has ranked 84th in the Global Hunger Index 2026 with a score of 19.2, placing the country in the moderate hunger category. Bangladesh ranked ahead of India and Pakistan but behind Nepal in the assessment.
🌾 Agriculture & Food
UNDP Bangladesh has linked five educational institutions with local recycling entrepreneurs to promote source-level plastic waste segregation and recycling, going beyond awareness to establish practical collection chains.
🌾 Agriculture & Food
Bangladesh State Minister for Fisheries and Livestock Sultan Salauddin Tuku has promised easy-term loans for farmers to cut production costs, citing training of 850 farmers and grass imports from Australia.