FisheriesAt Banda village in Khulna's Dumuria, Rahul Biswas's Biswas Agro Project and Fish Hatchery breeds molly, guppy, goldfish, angel, koi carp and other aquarium fish in three houses and six ponds, sells them at Tk 20–200 a pair or piece from Khalishpur to Dhaka's Katabon, and runs all-male freshwater pr
LivestockThe 95-acre farm at Fakirhat, Bagerhat, milks 44 buffaloes for about 130 litres a day, sold at the gate for Tk 70 a kilo; set up in 1984-85 with ADB funding, 111 animals and 50 staff, it now has ten revenue-post employees plus 22 outsourced hands, and distributed 141 calves to 101 farmers in 2024-25
CropsWith a bigha costing Tk 20,000–26,000 to grow and yielding about 10 maunds at roughly Tk 3,000 a maund, the fibre alone leaves little profit; traders now pay Tk 10,000–15,000 for the same field's sticks, which have moved beyond cooking fuel to fencing, cattle sheds and hawking in town.
CropsDepressions, monsoon rain and tidal water flooded low-lying parts of the coastal district and damaged Aman seedbeds and summer vegetables, but transplanting is now in full swing; a Bauphal farmer has gone from 60 to 80 kathas, and officials say a favourable season could beat the target and set a pro
CropsAgainst a 12,591-hectare target, 12,511 hectares were planted and 12,203 harvested, led by Mehendiganj (3,490 ha) and Muladi (3,170 ha); a government clampdown on plastics and demand for jute sacks have traders competing to buy at the farm gate, and timely rain made retting easy and the fibre bright
CropsUnder the election-pledge farmer-card programme, Bagerhat's first-phase target is 31,374 farmers; names of 26,338 were finalised and sent to the banks by 31 August; the cards work as debit cards at Janata, Sonali and Krishi banks, and the prime minister launches distribution on 17 September with coa
VegetablesMore than 600 men and women in Natai Uttar, Ramrail and Machhihata unions of Sadar upazila make a living raising grafted and seed-grown seedlings; the upazila agriculture officer puts grafted output at about 500,000 seedlings worth Tk 75 lakh, in a June–October window when ordinary tomato cannot be
VegetablesMain Uddin of Bidyakut village in Brahmanbaria grew brinjal under plastic mulch for the first time this season on the upazila agriculture office's advice under the B-Strong project; fewer weeds, better soil moisture and strong yields promise more than Tk 3 lakh of profit, and he plans four bighas ne
CropsThe Department of Agricultural Extension counts 62,187 hectares of HYV and 55,600 of local Aman across ten upazilas and the city, plus 3,017 hectares of Aus (1,155 in Mehendiganj) and 2,705 of vegetables; HYV paddy averages about 2.5 tonnes a hectare against 1.5 for local varieties, pulling farmers
Market ManagementThe agriculture ministry's allocation letter of 14 September covers October demand in full — 70,052 tonnes of TSP, 150,910 of DAP and 93,654 of MOP — with all TSP from BADC and 1,000 tonnes of DAP from BCIC; Bogura gets 4,540 tonnes of MOP and Rajshahi 3,360, and early imports, stocks and field moni
FruitsWith the mainstream mango crop finished in Naogaon, Sohel Rana's Barind Agro in Sapahar has 1,800 Gourmoti and 1,700 Katimon trees in fruit; after selling more than Tk 1 crore of seasonal mango he expects 400 maunds of Gourmoti at Tk 8,000 and 450 maunds of Katimon at Tk 7,000, employing ten local y
LivestockPallab Gain of Bajua Chararhar village in Khulna's Dakop upazila runs about 1,000 ducks and four improved-breed cows with his father; eggs sell at about Tk 15 and a duck costs about Tk 450 to raise to lay; the livestock department counts some 220 duck farms in the upazila, with women favouring the P
CropsAfter a dry start, adequate rain and the draining of the haors have put transplanting almost at target; Chunarughat has the largest target at 18,285 hectares, last year's area was about 88,000 hectares, and fields briefly flooded earlier have been replanted.
