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FisheriesOn the sidelines of an FAO event in Rome, State Minister for Fisheries and Livestock Sultan Salauddin Tuku and Italy's agriculture undersecretary Luigi D'Eramo discussed an MoU covering aquaculture, livestock, marine fisheries and the blue economy; the minister said fish and livestock farmers will b
GalleryRui, catla and mrigal; shing, magur and pabda; shol, taki, hilsa and the featherback: eighteen of the fish that once filled every beel and canal in Bangladesh, photographed alive.
FisheriesThe Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock on Sunday served a show-cause notice on the Department of Fisheries' acting director general Dr Md Khaled Kanak for permitting hilsa imports from Gujarat without informing it; NBR data show 22 firms imported 352,786 kg through Benapole in July and August, wort
AgrotechMachines at every stage — tractors, combines, transplanters, drip lines and drones — are raising yields and cutting costs on Bangladesh's farms. What is in use, where the country stands, and what still holds it back.
LivestockLayer farmers in Chandpur's Matlab Uttar upazila say rising feed, medicine and chick prices have closed farms and driven others into debt; they want price controls, the poultry association blames the monopoly of chick and feed companies, and the livestock officer says vaccines are sold at government
VegetablesWater from upstream submerged 309.59 hectares in Paba, Bagha and Godagari, including 45 ha of vegetables, 85 ha of black gram and 102 ha of turmeric; farmers at Kasba and Alimganj lost pointed gourd, cucumber, bitter gourd and early cauliflower, while the DAE says raised bunds and drainage saved abo
LivestockMilk Vita's one-litre pack went from Tk 100 to Tk 110 last month and Farm Fresh, Aarong and Pran Dairy now sell at Tk 110-115; chairman S M Amir Hamza Shatil says packaging, gas and transport costs had pushed the cooperative into loss, and the farm-gate price was raised Tk 3 a litre; retailers repor
VegetablesGovernment data show the average retail price rising from Rs 29.50 a kg on 1 June to Rs 53.78 on 17 September and wholesale from Rs 22.60 to Rs 45.68; a shortfall in Maharashtra's summer crop and a late kharif harvest are blamed, and buffer-stock sales at about Rs 35 a kg and export curbs are among
CropsDAE figures put aman transplanting in Chattogram at 179,660 of a 179,980-hectare target, with Cox's Bazar at 99 per cent, Feni at 66,837 hectares and Noakhali and Lakshmipur beyond target; officials credit favourable rain, timely seedlings and quick post-flood support to farmers.
CropsIn Whole Earth Farming, Smallholder Farmers Alliance co-founder Hugh Locke argues that moving about 240 million of the Global South's 475 million small farms to regenerative agriculture and agroforestry could supply all the extra food needed by 2050 while restoring soils and drawing down up to 0.72
EnvironmentModels point to the current El Niño exceeding the 1982–83 event, with central Pacific sea-surface anomalies possibly above 3.0 °C, yet the Bureau of Meteorology says a neutral-for-now Indian Ocean Dipole, warm seas around Australia and long-term warming will shape spring and summer as much; water st
AgribusinessThe National Farmers' Federation says it was not consulted on Working Holiday Maker visa changes that include a ballot and caps on second- and third-year visas, warning that backpackers make up to 80 per cent of horticulture's peak harvest workforce, after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told the AB
LivestockBeef Central's latest 100-day grainfed trading budget puts a typical 450 kg feeder steer entering a Darling Downs custom feedyard this week at a $170 loss: feeders at 520c/kg, rations near a 15-year high of $540/t and forward grainfed contracts at 875c/kg against a breakeven of 926c/kg.
FisheriesLetters of 12 October 2025 and 15 September 2026 from the Department of Fisheries asking the ministry to restrict imports of rui, katla, boal and hilsa and lift domestic output remain unactioned; 450 tonnes of hilsa have come through Benapole this fiscal year, and DG Dr Md Khaled Kanak says irregula
CropsResearchers at The Sainsbury Laboratory and the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon have shown that the PIPL7 peptide made by the embryo is the long-sought ligand of the IKU2 seed-size receptor in the endosperm; raising PIPL7 expression produced larger seeds in a crop proof of concept, and a patent has
LivestockNorthern Ireland's College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise has published four online calculators — short-keep finishing, weanling-to-beef, bull beef and keep-or-sell — so that beef producers can model margin per head and per day from their own purchase, feed and carcass figures before comm
CropsNew Zealand crops hit hardest by fall armyworm over three seasons were mostly planted in late November and December, coinciding with second-generation flights, the Foundation for Arable Research's 2022–2026 population review shows; the pest is now year-round in the northern third of the North Island
Rooftop farmingA year-old grafted plant set upright, pruning in Ashwin, dung, TSP and potash ten days before the cut, water every ten days in drought, organic pest control and suckers cut below the graft: the rules for roses in pots.
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EnvironmentThe Banks Peninsula Conservation Trust, formed by farmers in 2001, is combining drone imagery with on-foot surveys and eDNA tests to show landowners such as fourth-generation farmer Tim Coop what indigenous vegetation survives on their 1,600 hectare hill properties, and to map regrowth after Februar
AgribusinessWestpac NZ's economists put a severe El Niño drought across northern and eastern New Zealand at a potential 1 per cent hit to GDP; its head of agribusiness Richard Anderson urges farmers to update budgets, check water and feed, set stock-sale trigger points and repair irrigation while the sector's l
EnvironmentTrial plantings of baen (Avicennia) mangroves by the NGO CODEC in the Badarkhali channel and Rampura mouza of Chakaria, Cox's Bazar, are surviving well; experts say the near-vanished forest can return only if tidal flow, blocked by shrimp-farm embankments, is restored and three other barriers are re
EnvironmentRezaul Kibria Babul, imam of a mosque in Omarpur union of Charfasson upazila, Bhola, raises seedlings in his own nursery and has lined village roads with fruit, medicinal and palmyra trees for 34 years, funded by selling inherited land and his savings.
LivestockIn the farmer-led Catch the Rain project funded by Beef + Lamb New Zealand and led by Quorum Sense, extending pasture recovery from a standard 30 days to 60–90-plus days almost doubled water infiltration within nine months on three farms; a fish-hydrolysate biostimulant lifted it by about a third, w
LivestockA Canterbury study in the Journal of Animal Science comparing eight plantain–chicory–ryegrass diets in 120 young sheep found no meaningful evidence that plantain's secondary compounds raise urine output; low forage dry matter drove the effect, which DairyNZ accepts while pointing to farmlet trials s
