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Twenty-two firms imported hilsa through the land port in July and August, 91.66 percent of it in August; in Jashore the foreign fish sells for about Tk 2,000 a kilo less than local hilsa, and officials want it labelled as Indian.
The distribution of 144 goats in Shariatpur is part of a livestock development project covering the river chars of seven districts from Manikganj to Shariatpur, aimed at filling gaps in breeds, feed, treatment and technical support.
The government housing at Chapulia in Faridpur was built in 2011-12 about a kilometre from the river; erosion that began in 2021 has taken it, and families now living in the open want a permanent embankment and resettlement.
Sudden erosion at Purba Badurtala in Jhalokati on Sunday swallowed about 100 shatak of land; with the embankment gone, farmers fear tidal water in their aman fields and the Badurtala primary school is at risk.
In Chuadanga's Alamdanga upazila, locals intercepted a truck moving TSP fertiliser allocated from a BADC godown without valid papers; police have taken the fertiliser, the truck and a grocery trader into custody.
Chittagong Urea Fertilizer Limited has been receiving gas to demand for about a week and resumed ammonia production on 9 September; once mechanical faults are fixed the plant expects to turn out 1,000 tonnes of urea a day.
Roe-laden hilsa landed at Bharuch is going to Bangladesh as a trial run, says Howrah Fish Importers' Association secretary Syed Anwar Maksud, whose association is meanwhile lobbying Dhaka for Padma hilsa before the Pujas.
Seven of nine radio-collared lorises released in the park died within a short time; deforestation is pushing the endangered nocturnal primate into villages, where roads, railway lines and power lines kill it.
The Fish Importers' Association of Kolkata has written to Khandaker Abdul Muktadir seeking a permanent end to the ban in place since July 2012, saying the limited Durga Puja permits since 2019 are not enough.
More than 150 litchi trees in an orchard planted with 137 trees in 1960 have died with their roots under water, while five neighbourhoods of the municipality spend seven to eight months of the year waterlogged.
Haji Saral Mia of Mymensingh planted okra, greens and fruit trees on the one-acre bank of his 5.5-acre fish pond; 180 maunds are sold, 200-250 more are coming, and the crop needs no fertiliser and hardly any pesticide.
Under Bangladesh Bank's revolving scheme, farmers and agribusinesses in Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions can borrow at no more than 7 percent for four stages of the supply chain, from production and storage to export.
Homes, fields, schools and mosques face the rivers in Alfadanga, Sadar, Sadarpur, Charbhadrasan and Bhanga; the Water Development Board promises geo-bags within two days while residents demand a permanent embankment.
