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AgribusinessAt a technical education and innovation fair seminar in Cumilla, Agriculture, Fisheries and Livestock Minister Mohammed Aminur Rashid said the government is working to make farm products major exports and urged less pesticide use for safe food.
FisheriesFor the 22-day ban protecting spawning hilsa, the government has allocated 1,657 tonnes of VGF rice for 646,290 fishing families in 168 upazilas of 38 districts, to be handed out by 8 October.
EnvironmentVolunteers of the Chalan Beel Biodiversity Protection Committee freed more than 50 egrets from traps of banana and date-palm leaves and bamboo in paddy fields of Singra, Natore, and destroyed ten traps.
Landowners in Kurakhal, West Bangra, say soil and sand have been pumped from about six acres of farmland without permission; the upazila agriculture officer says Muradnagar and Bangra lost 147 hectares of cropland in five years.
EnvironmentResearchers found plastic waste 15 to 17 years old 15 feet down in the Buriganga's bed; fish from the river carry more microplastics than fish from the Bay of Bengal, and Sundarbans water holds 23.25 particles a litre.
HealthSince mid-March more than 9,000 people in Chattogram have had measles and 29 have died, 21 of them children; nine city wards and many upazilas are hotspots, and a shortage of kits means most samples go untested.
HealthA 28-year-old technician at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute reportedly died of pneumonic plague after a tube of plague bacteria broke; 197 contacts are being monitored and none has tested positive in initial checks.
HealthA food laboratory found Nestle's low-fat dairy whitener substandard under India's Food Safety and Standards Act, and the FSSAI has issued a notice and ordered sales of the product stopped at once.
CropsAgriculture and Fisheries and Livestock Minister Mohammad Amin Ur Rashid told a conference in Cumilla that village mosque imams and muezzins will be trained in modern, pesticide-free farming so that the safe-food message reaches people faster.
HealthSix people died of dengue and 1,608 were admitted to hospital in 24 hours, according to Saturday's health directorate bulletin; admissions this year stand at 84,369.
In Gottman Institute research, 69 per cent of couples were still arguing about the same issues four years later; what matters is how partners treat each other, and about 70 per cent of couples in therapy see positive results.
FruitsCommerce Minister Khandaker Abdul Muktadir asked importers to open letters of credit quickly to bring in more fruit, and said a decision on the duty on dates would come this week.
EnvironmentAfter lemurs, macaws and a nilgai went missing, the Forest Department plans to microchip rare animals at Gazipur Safari Park and record their DNA, work to be done by its Wildlife Crime Control Unit.
HealthAll eight deaths in the past 24 hours were in Dhaka division, the health directorate said; 1,152 new suspected and confirmed measles cases were recorded.
CookingWith LPG prices rising, simple kitchen habits such as covering pots, matching the flame to the pan, cleaning burners and checking for leaks can make a cylinder that lasted 20 days last 25.
OpinionRanjeet Kumar Sahani of the Foundation for Ecological Security argues that pushing the Jenu Kuruba out of the forest let lantana spread and drove elephants into coffee estates.
OpinionIn a Down To Earth column, Yashobanta Parida and Joyita Roy Chowdhury argue that monitoring of Himalayan glacial lakes has grown faster than early warning and community preparedness.
IslamAs-Sunnah Foundation chairman Sheikh Ahmadullah says praying directly to Allah is the basic form of dua; asking a pious person to pray for you is permitted, but paying for formal prayer gatherings is not a Sunnah practice.
AgrotechIn Mohanpur, Rajshahi, a 2-horsepower pump run by six solar panels irrigates 20 to 25 bighas a day; 32 solar pumps installed in the division in two years have cut irrigation costs to almost nothing and raised cropping intensity by about 50 per cent.
FruitsA Global Horticulture Hub at Madanapalle aims to widen fruit farming across drought-prone Rayalaseema, with Reliance planning an agriculture school focused on artificial intelligence.
IslamIslamic scholar Raihan Al Imran draws on the Quran and hadith to show how right intention, lawful earning, harming no one, consultation, istikhara and trust in Allah can turn everyday tasks into worship.
CookingBeef, mutton or buffalo meat thickened with rice flour and finished with fried onion, garlic and cumin, pithali is the dish of weddings, aqiqah and community gatherings in Jamalpur, also known as milli, milani, myanda or menda.
AgrotechIn net, polythene and steel polynet houses that control light, heat and humidity, Rajshahi farmers harvest grapes twice a year and raise high-value seedlings, while plastic mulching lets them grow watermelon out of season.
IslamDay labourers, small traders and vegetable sellers among 42 elderly learners in Kamarkhanda, Sirajganj, finished a free Madani-method Quran course at the central mosque and received copies of the Quran; one won an Umrah trip.
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VideoAt Bindhara in Panchbibi, Joypurhat, small dark-skinned Black Baby watermelons hang from bamboo trellises. The 60-day crop needs 50 grams of seed a bigha, yields 1,200 to 1,500 fruits or 4 to 4.5 tonnes, and at Tk 30 a kilo earns far more than other field crops.
VideoShykh Seraj examines the government's first 180 days in agriculture, from farm loan waivers and farmer cards to crop insurance and canal excavation.
VideoAfter leaving a garment job, H M Forwardi Palash planted an acre of year-round guava in Bhaluka, Mymensingh, and is working towards GAP certification to supply supershops.
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GalleryIn pictures: jute markets, trap-caught fish, bean fields and water lilies1 photos
GalleryFog arrives early on autumn mornings across Bangladesh's north1 photos
GalleryChhatim blossoms scent Sylhet's evenings as the seasons turn1 photos
GalleryMalta prices climb in Chattogram as dengue lifts demand, imported fruit up to Tk 5001 photos
GalleryBangladesh in pictures, 1 October: jute prices, pomelo boats, cauliflower under bananas1 photos
GalleryAutumn rain brings out balsam, allamanda and crepe jasmine in Rangamati1 photos
GalleryLilies on rocky ground at 10,600 feet: a women's flower farm in LadakhSection
EnvironmentSea surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific reached 3.08 degrees Celsius above the 1991 to 2020 average on 21 September, the most extreme daily reading for any El Nino on record.
EnvironmentNutrien Ag Solutions' Eric Snodgrass says an El Nino that has already passed the 2015 record helped bring up to 30 inches of rain to parts of the Corn Belt in August and September, with a drier window and a warm northern winter ahead.
EnvironmentThe Comptroller and Auditor General says planting has fallen far short every year since 2015, with 2,527 hectares planted in 2025 against an 8,000-hectare target, despite about €946 million spent on forestry schemes.
EnvironmentIreland's National Parks and Wildlife Service traced the invasive pollinator predator to a nest near Ringaskiddy within hours by attaching miniature transmitters to hornets.
HealthComparing nearly 27,000 pet dogs, 59 hunting dogs and more than 260 wild canids, Penn State researchers found wildlife carried more parasites and detected a tapeworm that can infect people, using a DNA-based test.
EnvironmentAfter a glacier collapse caused devastating floods in August, Nepal is preparing a project of about $50 million to drain Thulagi, Lower Barun, Lumding Tsho and Hongu-2 lakes through channels and install sensors and early warning.
