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 crop area, output and growing seasons by district and year.
Explore Crop Intelligence42categories
64districts
Ways to explore the records
- 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.
- District profile
- See the area mix and recorded production changes for a district or selection.
Crop and aquaculture records from official statistics, organised by Cultivera with sources and periods attached. Coverage varies by crop and year; some years are not directly comparable.
Feature · Potato Long View · 1961 → 2024–25
Six decades
of potato
33.7×recorded national potato production in 2024–25 against the first national observation in 1961.
- 1961343,408 tonnes
- 2024–2511.6 million tonnes
FAOSTAT · 1961 calendar year. BBS Yearbook of Agricultural Statistics 2025 · 2024–25 crop year and district map. The two sources use different year definitions; the feature explains the comparison.
Read The rise of potato
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. The paper argues that expansion should depend on evidence of continued operation.
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 productive economies, public institutions and rural systems.
External writing
15 articles · 2025–2026- The state should build markets, not become themSaba El KabirOpens in a new tab.
- A Friday-Night YouTube Rabbit Hole, and the History Lesson I Wasn’t Looking ForSaba El KabirOpens in a new tab.
- 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.
Earlier writing10 articles · 2025–2026
- 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.
- 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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