Prothom Alo's daily round of pictures from the districts on 2 October gives a glimpse of farm and waterside life in early autumn, from Pabna to Bandarban and from Jashore to Faridpur. These are the farming, fishing and nature scenes among them.
At Railbazar in Chatmohar, Pabna, jute is selling in full swing, and bundles are being loaded onto trucks at the warehouses for the jute mills. According to the caption, a maund of jute is fetching Tk 2,600 to Tk 4,700.
In Jashore, a man cycles to market at Murali Mor with water lilies tied behind his bicycle, and at Abhaynagar EPZ a group carries off fish caught in bamboo traps set in a pond. At Bagsara village in Paba, Rajshahi, anglers bought tickets to join a fishing festival at a pond.
In Bandarban, a Marma woman tends a bean field at Kraikhyang Para, and at Wabraing a flock of geese basks in the sun after climbing out of a pond. In Doluchhari village, Rangamati, raindrops gather on lemon blossoms.
At Bokail in Gerda union, Faridpur, craftsman Sikandar Sheikh makes bamboo polo fish traps with his granddaughter; demand lasts all year and they sell each one from home for Tk 300 to Tk 350. In Badarpur in the same district, a farmer walks home along a paddy embankment with grass cut for his cattle, and a trader arranges bunches of bananas brought from a farmer's orchard, which, the caption says, will be wrapped in polythene and ripened artificially with the heat of a fire.
In Mohadipur, Badalgachhi, Naogaon, a flock of parakeets came down to feed on 1 October, and on the weekly holiday tourists took boats through the Ratargul swamp forest in Gowainghat, Sylhet.
The pictures appeared in Prothom Alo's Ekjhalak (2 October 2026); the captions here are written in our own words. The cover is an illustrative picture of a jute market.
Photo: Mahinur11 / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Source: Prothom Alo
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