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EnvironmentThe government plans to lift this year's target of 50 million trees to between 55 and 60 million, plant all year round, and favour fruit, timber and medicinal species suited to local soil and weather.
AgribusinessHigher transport costs after the recent fuel price rise, and high paddy prices at the wholesale hubs, have pushed up retail prices of fine and medium rice in Dhaka by up to Tk 3 a kilo in a week and a half; coarse rice is steadier.
AgribusinessOn World Egg Day, poultry farmers say they are selling below cost as feed, bran and maize prices rise, while middlemen take Tk 2 or more on every egg between farm and market.
IslamThe centrepiece of Khan Jahan Ali's 15th-century city of Khalifatabad in Bagerhat, a World Heritage Site since 1985, stands on 60 pillars under 81 domes and is now threatened by salt and damp.
FisheriesBuyers crowded Kalapara, Alipur, Mohipur, Chapli and other markets after dark; a 1 kg hilsa fetched Tk 2,500-2,600, and 459.10 tonnes of rice is allotted for the upazila's 18,364 registered fishers.
FruitsYoung grower Tawhidul Islam Tawhid planted 85 vines of about 15 varieties on 10 decimals of land in Noleya village and is now harvesting; he plans a vineyard of nearly four bighas.
EnvironmentReviewing the Water Development Board and WARPO, the Committee on Public Undertakings urged sediment management, a review of dredging, fewer deep tube-wells in stressed areas and one policy for canal digging.
FruitsAtiar Rahman of Balarampur village grew heat- and rain-tolerant 'Bengal Tiger' watermelons on a trellis over 40 decimals under an agriculture office demonstration; Tk 50,000 spent, Tk 125,000 sold in the first round.
AgribusinessThe cabinet purchase committee cleared an optional fifth lot from OCP Nutricrops at $866 a tonne; BADC will import it and the cost comes out of the farm subsidy budget.
LivestockWorld Farmed Animals Day falls on 2 October; World Animal Protection says about 80 billion land animals are used in farming each year, a large share of them in industrial systems.
A mobile court in Goalanda, Rajbari, fined four pharmacies near Ujanchar bazar a total of Tk 20,000 under the Drugs Act 1940 for selling unapproved medicines and antibiotics without a registered doctor's prescription.
Forest staff rescued a 9-foot, 9-kilogram Burmese python crossing the road at Hotapara truck stand in Gazipur Sadar late on Monday night and placed it in the python enclosure at Gazipur Safari Park.
A fisherman from Sarankhola, Bagerhat, caught a 20 kg koral (barramundi) in the Bhola river of the Sundarbans; it sold for Tk 36,000, or Tk 1,800 a kilo.
