Cultivera Insights · September 2026
Bangladesh,
read closely.
Data tools, field-led features and policy research on rural Bangladesh.
Crop Intelligence · Interactive platform
Follow crops across
place and time.
Explore recorded area, output and season evidence across available districts and years.
Explore Crop Intelligence42crops
64districts
Four ways to read the record
- Districts
- See where recorded production is concentrated.
- Over time
- Follow recorded area and output where comparable series exist.
- Growing season
- Read planting, tending and harvest windows where calendar evidence is available.
- Compare crops
- Compare crops within the same geography.
Official statistics, organised by Cultivera. Source and period remain attached to the record. Coverage varies by crop and year, and not every recorded year is directly comparable.
Feature · Potato Long View · 2024–25
Five districts.
Half the harvest.
52.6%of recorded national potato production comes from the five leading districts.
- Rangpur1,475,432 MT
- Dinajpur1,308,808 MT
- Bogra1,178,604 MT
- Joypurhat1,111,364 MT
- Munshiganj1,015,095 MT
BBS Yearbook of Agricultural Statistics 2025 · 2024–25 potato estimate. Share calculated by Cultivera from the five district values and the national total.
Read the Potato Long View
Cultivera InsightsRetained Capital
What’s left
for the farmer?
Bangladesh · Scott Wallace / World Bank · archive photograph published 2014
Context image · Not project evidence
Policy paper · June 2026
Biogas after installation.
From Installation to Sustained Value
Finance the years of use.
A biodigester needs feedstock, maintenance and continued use.
The paper examines financing for household energy, circular agriculture hubs and industrial Bio-CNG, with operating evidence before expansion.
Read Sustained ValueThe June 2026 update records installations. Current function and use still need field verification.
At commissioningSafe to operate
During useService available
Before expansionValue verified
Proposed financing conditions. The paper separates published evidence, project-supplied material and pre-feasibility assumptions.
Published elsewhere
Published work.
Selected writing on agriculture, finance and rural systems.
External writing
13 articles · 2025–2026- What Bangladesh’s priority sectors can learn from RMGSaba El KabirOpens in a new tab.
- Are We Misdiagnosing Bangladesh’s Skills Gap?Saba El KabirOpens in a new tab.
- Will AI close Bangladesh’s productivity gap, or widen it?Saba El KabirOpens in a new tab.
- Funding the unfundable: What Bangladesh’s banks still cannot seeSaba El KabirOpens in a new tab.
- Why Bangladesh’s small producers struggle to scale, and how to help themSaba El KabirOpens in a new tab.
Earlier writing8 articles · 2025–2026
- Credit isn’t enough – farmers need assets to build incomeSaba El KabirOpens in a new tab.
- The real crisis at Bangladesh Bank: The mandate, not the résuméHossain Zillur Rahman and Saba El KabirOpens in a new tab.
- Reconciling hundi realities with LDC graduation goalsSaba El KabirOpens in a new tab.
- Rural growth demands capital, not paper promisesSaba El KabirOpens in a new tab.
- Why Bangladesh’s agricultural credit buys subsistence, not growthSaba El KabirOpens in a new tab.
- How our electric grid fosters inequalitySaba El KabirOpens in a new tab.
- The distance between what we do and what we needFaruque AhmedOpens in a new tab.
- Fixing the broken chain that keeps farmers poorSaba El KabirOpens in a new tab.
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