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CropsEarly aman covers 33,000 hectares in five Rangpur-region districts; yields are unchanged but fertiliser, diesel, pesticide and labour costs are up, and farmers are preparing land for early winter vegetables.
AgrotechTwenty onion growers in Chuadanga Sadar received air flow machines that ventilate storage rooms; each costs Tk 21,000, with Tk 7,000 more for building a store, and one machine can keep 20-25 tonnes of onions.
CropsRang Bilash cane covers 126 hectares in Natore's Gurudaspur, Baraigram and Singra this year, yielding at least 1,213 tonnes of juice; growers say garlic or onion grown between the rows pays the cost of the cane.
FruitsKhadija Akter of Jaldhaka took up farming in 2018 after losing her husband; she grows coffee on three bighas and rambutan, dragon fruit, passion fruit and cocoa on two, and sold about 400 kg of rambutan last year.
AgribusinessAt a technical education and innovation fair seminar in Cumilla, Agriculture, Fisheries and Livestock Minister Mohammed Aminur Rashid said the government is working to make farm products major exports and urged less pesticide use for safe food.
AgrotechIn Mohanpur, Rajshahi, a 2-horsepower pump run by six solar panels irrigates 20 to 25 bighas a day; 32 solar pumps installed in the division in two years have cut irrigation costs to almost nothing and raised cropping intensity by about 50 per cent.
FruitsFarmers in Jhalokathi's four upazilas grew hog plum (amra) on 605 hectares this year for 4,590 tonnes; at the Bhimruli floating market it sells for Tk 1,000 to Tk 1,600 a maund, and growers say it pays better than guava, BSS reports.
WorldUnicef says 25.8 million children in Latin America, one in seven, face growing risks from droughts and floods brought by a record El Nino, with harvest losses raising malnutrition risk in Central America.
EnvironmentThe EU's Copernicus atmosphere service found that 34 percent of the world's population, and 53 percent of Asia's, was exposed to extremely poor ozone levels in the first eight and a half months of 2026.
A BFSA mobile court fined one bakery for leaving ammonia off its biscuit labels and working in filthy conditions, and another for storing raw and cooked food together without licences.
Dinajpur's aman crop covers 273,750 hectares against a target of 272,270; the district aims for about 8 lakh tonnes of rice, with early varieties to be harvested from mid-Kartik.
The Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture's Sunamganj sub-station is training haor farmers in regionally suited rice, mustard and groundnut varieties developed with nuclear techniques and mutation breeding.
With little farm work in the monsoon, about 3,000 families in Kashiani, Gopalganj, pick and sell water lilies (shapla) from the beels; 20 to 30 vehicle-loads a day leave the Rahuthar wholesale market for other districts.
