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Aman planting in Noakhali was set back a month by early heavy rain; now drought has dried out paddy on thousands of acres in Subarnachar, Sadar and Companiganj before the grain set.
CropsNikkei Asia reports that Sonam Jam Pop of Paro and Pasang Om of Bajo draw thousands of viewers with their daily farm work as Bhutan's young people leave the villages.
FisheriesAbout 333 tonnes of fish change hands daily at Keshabpur, Jashore, and 30,381 of the upazila's 37,631 tonnes in 2025-26 went elsewhere, but traders and workers say roads, drinking water and digital scales are lacking.
HealthBy India's ICMR-NIN figures a five-year-old weighing 20 kg needs about 19 g of protein a day; constant hunger, quick tiredness, poor weight gain, frequent illness and weak muscles call for a doctor's advice.
IslamWriting in Desh Rupantor, Mufti Muhammad Anisur Rahman Rizvi cites the Quran and hadith to argue that restraint in irrigation, drinking and wudu, recharge and protecting water bodies are a Muslim's duty.
OpinionIn Naya Diganta, Dr Mohammad Mozammel Hoque calls for fair prices, bargaining power, disaster protection, credit and subsidy for real cultivators, and rural schooling and health care to be put at the centre of farm policy. The views are the writer's own.
EnvironmentPresident Rodrigo Paz signed a decree declaring a nationwide emergency; a government report says drought has hit 78,000 families in six of the country's nine departments.
EnvironmentFalling freshwater flow and rising salinity are spreading top-dying disease in the sundari; a new study cited in the report says the forest's capacity to absorb carbon has fallen 15 percent.
Opening a new BADC warehouse, Agriculture Minister Mohammad Amin Ur Rashid said stocks are not enough: fertiliser must reach farmers on time and at a fair price.
CropsSome 5,000-6,000 maunds of jute reach the Ghior market in Manikganj every Wednesday; prices are good this year, but a lack of retting water and river erosion are taking a toll.
FruitsLemon is grown on 1,240 hectares in Moulvibazar; Sreemangal added 100 hectares in five years, wholesale prices are now Tk 15-35 a piece, but exports have not started.
CropsBetel growers in Durgapur, Bagmara, Mohanpur, Puthia and Tanore say pesticides are not stopping leaf rot; the agriculture office says it knows of no new disease.
HealthThe Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection found unripe bananas being turned yellow with a banned chemical in 24 hours at Rakhalgachhi, Pabna, and fined the business Tk 50,000; 72 firms in 27 districts were fined the same day.
IslamTouching a printed Quran (mushaf) without ablution is forbidden, but contemporary fatwa boards hold that a phone is not a mushaf, so reading from the screen without wudu is permissible.
CropsA Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics quarterly report shows onion, aman rice, garlic, winter chilli, maize and soybean output rising in 2025-26, while potato and wheat fell.
GalleryProthom Alo's photographers' round for 1 November runs from Rangamati's flowers and a bee on lemon blossom to Barishal's hilsa landing, Manikganj's paddy and Sreepur's whistling ducks.
AgribusinessA Purdue analysis of FINBIN farm records from 2007 to 2025 found operating profit margins of about 20 per cent whatever the acreage, with large farms ahead only on asset turnover, a lead that has shrunk over time.
LivestockIn a Soy Checkoff-funded commercial trial, pigs fed grow-finish diets higher in soybean meal produced carcasses 5.5 pounds heavier during heat stress than pigs on the farm's earlier high-energy ration, at a lower feed cost per pig.
EnvironmentUniversity of Sydney researchers found living coral survived about 75 per cent of crown-of-thorns starfish feeding events at One Tree Island, suggesting low starfish numbers can keep fast-growing corals in check.
Daily lifeFrom windows, heaters and carpets to bathroom steam, sunning quilts and emptying bins, Ajker Patrika’s feature desk suggests how to keep dust and damp out of a closed-up winter home.
CookingOnion, mushrooms, mint and rosemary are cooked down, thickened with cornstarch, seasoned with soy sauce and mustard, simmered with broth and potatoes and finished with kidney beans and milk; it keeps 3-4 days chilled.
VegetablesCucumber has been sown on 225 of a targeted 360 hectares in Ullapara, Sirajganj, and early produce is selling at high prices at the Charbaddhangachha and Chaksha wholesale markets.
CropsWith 113.6 mm of rain in three days, aman on at least 150 hectares has lodged in Lalpur, and Ishwardi’s agriculture office expects yields about 5 maunds a bigha lower; farmers are advised to tie up the fallen plants.
CropsAs boro land preparation begins in Kishoreganj’s haor, river police seized a boat with 108 bags of BADC DAP fertiliser in Itna; farmers say dealer supplies are not reaching them, forcing them to buy smuggled fertiliser at higher prices.
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VideoRobert 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.
VideoIn 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.
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.
In pictures
GalleryBangladesh on 1 November: paddy cut in the mist, hilsa back, whistling ducks1 photos
GalleryGlimpse, 31 October: pangas in the Padma, aus rice drying, a hill paddy path1 photos
GalleryEarly cauliflower floods Bogura's Mahasthan market and prices halve1 photos
GalleryCyclone Arnab flattens ripening paddy and idles fishers on the Andhra coast1 photos
GalleryIn pictures: Dumuria's wholesale vegetable market, from gher-dyke papaya to early beans1 photos
GalleryAn hour of light a day turns cave walls green in Chhattisgarh's Kanger Valley1 photos
GalleryWhy Kashmir's chinar leaves turn red in autumn, and the 'Tree Aadhaar' guarding 28,000 treesSection
EnvironmentAt a Dhaka University and Stockholm University seminar, Professor Abdus Salam said winter air from the Indo-Gangetic plain can push PM2.5 to 500 micrograms per cubic metre, and that black carbon in Dhaka fell after two-stroke engines were banned.
OpinionDrawing on the 17th biodiversity conference in Armenia, Pavel Partha argues in Prothom Alo that treating fallen leaves only as carbon ignores the folk science and rights of indigenous and local communities.
EnvironmentThe Meteorological Department’s monthly report says October rainfall fell far short of normal despite Cyclone Arnab and a second low, while the average temperature ran 1.1 degrees above normal.
EnvironmentThe deep depression has become Cyclone Murasu and may cross India’s Andhra coast as a severe cyclone on 2 November; fishing boats in the northern Bay have been told to stay close to shore.
EnvironmentWith hand pumps under floodwater in Ganjam, Gajapati and Kandhamal districts, families fear water-borne disease as the state sends tankers, halogen tablets and helicopter food drops.
