FlowersSunflowers and gerberas gain on roses at Chattogram's Cheragi Pahar flower market
Chattogram's main flower market draws its stock from Chakaria, Satkania, Jashore, Chuadanga, Satkhira and Rangpur, and demand multiplies in the wedding season.
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EnvironmentRare common cuckoo stops over in a Sreemangal tea garden
A common cuckoo, an uncommon passage migrant that rests briefly in Bangladesh on its way between countries, has been photographed in a tea garden shade tree in Sreemangal.
HealthUnited States loses measles elimination status after 26 years
An independent commission advising the PAHO director found the same measles strain had spread for more than a year, so the US no longer counts as measles-free.
Daily lifeLPG price rise sends Bangladesh families back to firewood stoves
BERC set the 12 kg cylinder at Tk 2,060 for November, but shops are charging Tk 2,200 to 2,600, and households in several districts are burning wood instead.
HealthSundarganj dog and jackal bites: 300 hurt, five dead as dog vaccination stops
Rabies has been found in dog and jackal samples in Sundarganj, Gaibandha, where stray-dog vaccination has lapsed; an IEDCR team has arrived.
IslamMalaysia's Nasrul Quran complex prints 15,000 copies of the Quran a day
Workers at the Putrajaya plant must be in a state of ablution, and every bound copy is weighed to catch a missing or extra page.
EnvironmentSeven wild peafowl found using Bangladesh land on the Panchagarh border
Wildlife expert Reza Khan and an IUCN Bangladesh team watched seven Indian peafowl, a bird listed as extinct in Bangladesh, roosting and feeding in a tea garden on the Panchagarh border.
OpinionWhy farmers keep drilling deeper: a review of The Borewell Paradox
Reviewing Rishu Garg's book in Down To Earth, Yogesh Kumar says India's groundwater crisis comes from sensible choices by individual farmers that add up to the ruin of a shared aquifer.
Environment
Ahead of COP31, CGIAR asks climate talks to keep a place for farming
CGIAR wants the climate negotiations in Antalya to keep a dedicated agriculture track, count food, water and livestock in adaptation indicators and send more grant finance to producers.
CropsA Costa Rican farmer's 20 hectares: cows, daily cheese, coffee and a fruit canopy
Minor Abarca kept his share of a shrinking family farm in Costa Rica going by adding a small dairy herd, making cheese every day and growing fruit, maize and chillies beneath and around his coffee.
CropsTamil Nadu caps tur and urad stocks for three months as pulse prices climb
Tamil Nadu has limited how much tur and urad wholesalers, retailers, millers and importers may hold for three months from 13 November, after wholesale prices rose by up to 53% in a year.
HealthBangladesh has 13.9 million people with diabetes, nearly half undiagnosed
Figures released for World Diabetes Day put the number of people with diabetes in Bangladesh at about 13.9 million, and the Diabetic Association of Bangladesh says about 82 per cent of them do not have the disease under control.
CropsA maund of paddy for a kilo of seed: Sunamganj farmers face Boro season
Medium-quality paddy is selling for Tk 600 to 700 a maund in Sunamganj while a kilogram of good seed costs Tk 600, and the agriculture department says not every farmer will get a government incentive this year.
FisheriesFish shortage halves dried-fish output in Chalan Beel
Output at the 73 dried-fish yards of Ullapara and Tarash in Sirajganj fell from 275.8 tonnes to 135 tonnes in a year; many drying platforms have closed and workers have lost their jobs.
Crops
Fake-fertiliser video shows an old Saturia case, agriculture ministry says
A video circulating on social media about adulterated fertiliser shows a 27 August incident at a dealer's shop in Saturia, Manikganj, which was dealt with at the time; the ministry says presenting it as proof that the government supplies fake fertiliser is propaganda.
Crops
Storm flattens Aman paddy and soaks cut rice in Jashore's Bagherpara
Wednesday's storm, rain and patches of hail in Bagherpara, Jashore, flattened green rice plants and soaked early-ripened paddy lying cut in the fields; farmers fear lower yields, but the upazila agriculture officer says there was little damage.
Islam
Love as a gift from Allah, and how the Quran asks believers to honour it
In a piece for Prothom Alo, Rajbari teacher Saki Mahbub presents love as a blessing from Allah and names marriage, avoiding sin and staying within the limits Allah has set as the ways to honour it.
HealthDengue keeps spreading in rural Bangladesh into winter, experts warn
Dengue cases and deaths are not falling even in mid-November, Dhaka hospitals see more patients from villages, and entomologists and public-health experts are urging a drive against Aedes breeding in rural areas.
EnvironmentGaro Hills families live on ant eggs as foresters warn of harm
For three to four months a year, 200 to 300 people in Sherpur's Garo Hills collect red ant eggs that sell for Tk 1,200 to 1,400 a kilogram as fishing bait; the forest department says the trade is harming the environment.
VegetablesLeaves, bulbs and flowers: Pakundia farmers earn three times from murikata onion
Farmers in Pakundia, Kishoreganj, have planted murikata onion on about 290 hectares this season; the bulbs are ready in 90 to 100 days, and the leaves and flowers bring in money as well.
Opinion
Food security is about farmers' income, not only output, argues Anjan Majumder
Agriculturist Anjan Majumder argues that Bangladesh can secure its food supply only by strengthening farmers' incomes, crop markets, processing and the rural economy together.
Agribusiness
Pesticide makers still need permits for every shipment despite new NBR order
A new National Board of Revenue order removes the need for a separate no-objection certificate for each consignment of pesticide raw material, but without instructions from the agriculture ministry the old rule still applies, local manufacturers say.
Crops
Insect attack hits ripening Aman rice in Rangpur's Pirgachha
Farmers in Pirgachha, Rangpur, fear a poor Aman harvest as an insect they call current poka spreads through ripe and ripening rice, and say extension officers busy with a farmer-card survey are not in the fields.
OrganicShort of chemical fertiliser, Kurigram farmers turn to compost
Unable to get enough chemical fertiliser, farmers in Kurigram are making their own organic fertiliser from cow dung and compost to grow winter vegetables.
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VideoVideo: Cork's Troy family farm wins Ireland's top quality milk award
Robert and Mary Troy, the fifth generation milking at Newtownshandrum, won the 2026 NDC and Kerrygold Quality Milk Awards with 425 cows, an SCC of 89,000 cells/ml and a herd in the national top 1% for breeding.
VideoVideo: can BRICS deliver export markets for South African farmers?
In the latest AgriView episode, agricultural economist Wandile Sihlobo asks whether the enlarged BRICS bloc is opening real markets for South African produce, or mostly producing talk.
VideoBlack Baby watermelon on trellises pays off for Joypurhat farmers
At 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.
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GalleryPixels of thread on jute sacking: a Pabna maker has trained over 100 women1 photos
GalleryOff-season trellis watermelons at Chattogram's Kadamtali fruit market, in pictures1 photos
GalleryVegetable seedlings on floating beds: the 150-year-old dhap farming, in pictures1 photos
GalleryNetting farmed fish from the ponds of Kahalu, Bogura, in pictures1 photos
GalleryBangladesh on 11 November: gerberas, Kaptai fishers and paddy drying in the field1 photos
GalleryRuddy shelducks, gulls and red-crested pochards flock to Padma chars in Rajshahi1 photos
GalleryFrom trawler to boat to cold store: unloading fish at Chattogram's Karnaphuli ghat
GalleryPixels of thread on jute sacking: a Pabna maker has trained over 100 women1 photosGalleryOff-season trellis watermelons at Chattogram's Kadamtali fruit market, in pictures1 photosGalleryVegetable seedlings on floating beds: the 150-year-old dhap farming, in pictures1 photosGalleryNetting farmed fish from the ponds of Kahalu, Bogura, in pictures1 photosGalleryBangladesh on 11 November: gerberas, Kaptai fishers and paddy drying in the field1 photosGalleryRuddy shelducks, gulls and red-crested pochards flock to Padma chars in Rajshahi1 photosGalleryFrom trawler to boat to cold store: unloading fish at Chattogram's Karnaphuli ghatSection
Environment
EnvironmentWhy cloud seeding that helped Dubai failed to clear Delhi's smog
Delhi's air quality index has passed 400; a 2025 cloud-seeding trial with IIT Kanpur produced no rain because the clouds held only 15 to 20 per cent moisture, and research shows any relief from rain lasts just one to five days.
EnvironmentActing now on El Nino would cost half as much as waiting, UNDP says
A new UNDP study puts the cost of tackling El Nino's impacts at $36 billion if action starts now and $73 billion if it is delayed; a 5 per cent rise in food prices could push another 37 million people in developing countries into poverty.
EnvironmentCOP31: Bangladesh and LDCs seek $120 billion a year for adaptation
At COP31 in Antalya, the least developed countries called for adaptation finance to be tripled to $120 billion a year before 2035, and Bangladesh asked for more money in the loss and damage fund, easier terms and faster disbursement.
EnvironmentTwo leopards seen in a tea garden across the Baliadangi border
Two leopards were seen in an Indian tea garden across the Nagar River from Dhantala union in Baliadangi, Thakurgaon, and villagers on the Bangladesh side fear they may cross into their area.
EnvironmentIndia's big reservoirs lose 5 BCM in a week, south nearly 47% below normal
The 178 major reservoirs held 63.25% of usable capacity on 12 November, almost 30% less than a year earlier, with Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu under 40% full.