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In an Ajker Patrika column, Bappaditya Chowdhury Prabal writes that a 12-kg LPG cylinder has passed Tk 2,000 for the first time and argues that weak market oversight, as well as world prices, is squeezing consumers.
In a study of 319 women in Kolkata and Kerala, trained non-radiologist doctors using a phone-linked probe reached 94.4 percent sensitivity; it does not replace diagnosis but cut unnecessary referrals by about half.
HealthA DSCC and health directorate survey of 2,250 homes found larvae in buckets, drums, mugs, flower pots and basements; special spraying has begun in 29 wards and primary schools will be cleaned every Saturday.
FlowersFlowers became a language of feeling in the Victorian era and a symbol of rebirth in ancient Egypt, and a cave in Iraq holds evidence of funeral flowers from about 62,000 BCE.
LivestockLandless and living on railway land in Sirajganj, Swapna, a third-gender person, built a farm from two goats and sold ten animals last year for Tk 7.10 lakh.
EnvironmentHyacinth stranded after the floods covers 5,000-6,000 hectares in Singra alone and threatens the rabi season; some farmers are spraying herbicide, while extension officers urge them to compost it.
A Reuters analysis of more than eight million births in Mexico over 18 years found preterm births rise 18 percent with extra heat in the final month, with risk starting one degree above what a body is used to.
Even in the age of map apps people still ask strangers for directions; the hadith count guiding the lost as sadaqah, and scholars treat knowingly misleading someone as a grave wrong.
GalleryAman is beginning to ripen in the border foothills of Companiganj, Sylhet, with harvesting under way in places, in a set of pictures by Prothom Alo photographer Anis Mahmud.
FruitsThe fruit went on show at LuLu Hypermarket in Al Qusais as India tests overseas demand under the 'Kiwi: USP of Arunachal Pradesh' branding.
FruitsThe 650 boxes came from local growers and the Bhuntar FPO in Kullu, linking about 600 farmers to an exporter.
AgrotechThe ISMA report says PM-KUSUM added a record 7.6 GW in FY 2025-26, and that over 28 lakh of the country's nearly 2.3 crore irrigation pumps were solarised by July 2026.
AgrotechA $300,000 FFAR project is building risk maps to place pheromone traps where the invasive beetle is most likely to appear next.
LivestockA nearly $4 million USDA grant funds what researchers expect to be the largest genetic study of the parasite, using samples from the outbreak in Honduras.
AgrotechEstimates of winter wheat area stayed within 5% of official figures from 2022 to 2025, and found 94.1% of winter crops harvested in government-held areas against 87.5% elsewhere.
A CSE and Down To Earth report counts 3,220 deaths and 47,244 livestock lost in nine months, with Maharashtra's cropland hardest hit at 2.83 million hectares.
The 29 projects will fund trapping, restoration and training, including a Louisiana effort across 16.6 million acres and 27 parishes.
The American Bankers Association and Farmer Mac survey expects 59% of borrowers to be profitable this year, and 56% in 2027, as reliance on government payments grows.
AgribusinessUSDA's fuels price index rose 14% from August alone, while feed stood 11% and fertilizer 10% above a year earlier.
CropsUSDA's Foreign Agricultural Service projects record ending stocks of corn and wheat, and says some corn may stay in fields through winter for lack of storage.
OpinionKera Birkeland of the Montana Grain Growers Association says government payments only cover rising costs, and calls for more competition among farm input sellers.
AgribusinessAt the Agda congress, speakers urged rail reform, a ranking of 5,000 Free State rural roads and group marketing to bring small livestock farmers into formal markets.
CookingWhole grains of rice are replaced with rice flour, and wheat gluten now means a new allergen warning, as climate pressure reshapes recipes across the food industry.
AgrotechGrowers may test the biofungicide on up to 350 hectares of tomatoes, cucumbers and strawberries, with the harvest allowed into the food chain, ahead of a 2029 launch.
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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.
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GalleryA glimpse of 4 November: okra fields, canna flowers and water lilies1 photosGalleryPhoto story: Aman rice ripens under the hills of Sylhet as Nabanna nears1 photos
GalleryA blood-red sun through fog and dust, and a fisherman on the river1 photos
GalleryGlimpse, 3 November: fields, haors and nature in pictures1 photos
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 halveSection
EnvironmentThe Woods Hole marine policy director tells Dialogue Earth that national climate plans cannot count the ocean until they measure what mangroves and kelp forests store.
EnvironmentReleased on 3 November, the voluntary plan puts the cost of halting forest loss at $300bn a year by 2030, against current finance of less than one-third of that.
EnvironmentThe association wants a state-federal agreement to end duplication, saying that following New South Wales land rules does not guarantee compliance with Commonwealth law.
Police have sued six named people in Lohagara over sand lifted from a canal and hills through a road cut in a SUFAL plantation, with fences and pits failing to stop the trade.
EnvironmentA tigress brought from Bihar that had left Buxa for the Raimona forest in Assam was darted in a three-hour operation and returned to a Buxa Tiger Reserve enclosure on Tuesday night.
Flocks of pigeons wheel around the loading of cargo at Sadarghat in Chattogram, in a photo story by Prothom Alo's Jewel Sheel.
