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VegetablesPotatoes that cost Tk 19-20 a kg once storage and transport are paid sell for Tk 14; the district's 19 cold stores still hold about 105,000 tonnes, and growers want an export push.
HealthSince mid-March more than 9,000 people in Chattogram have had measles and 29 have died, 21 of them children; nine city wards and many upazilas are hotspots, and a shortage of kits means most samples go untested.
EnvironmentA day after cracks appeared near Sureshwar fish market in Naria, Shariatpur, about 20 metres of the three-year-old Padma bank-protection embankment slid into the river on Thursday evening.
FisheriesFor the 8-29 October ban, Chandpur will set up five temporary police camps in its 70 km sanctuary, block canal mouths and shut ice factories; 41,390 fishers in the district will get 25 kg of food aid each.
Mymensingh's SK Hospital treated 20,073 people for animal bites and scratches from January to August, 5,955 of them under 15; vaccine is in stock, but dog vaccination has stopped.
CropsYields are good, but orchards, teak plantations, settlements and tired soil are shrinking jhum farming in Khagrachari every year; jhum covered 1,140 hectares in FY2026-27.
Darul Islam, a farmer in Fulbaria, Mymensingh, builds rat traps from bamboo, jute rope and discarded bicycle or rickshaw tubes; after catching about 300 rats on his 10 kathas in the Aus season, he sells them at Tk 100 each and neighbours are using them in Aman fields.
Hilsa are scarce in the Shariatpur stretch of the Padma even at the height of the season; fishers and the district fisheries office blame shoals, silt and shifting currents, leaving about 5,000 fishermen uncertain of their income.
Manajir Rahman Mamun of Gomostapur, Chapainawabganj, grew the 'Behula' sweet pumpkin on 26 bighas through summer and the monsoon and has already sold Tk 920,000 worth against costs of about Tk 500,000.
Calculations based on Department of Agricultural Extension data put 2026-27 rice production at 36.9 million tonnes against 37.65 million in 2025-26, with aus acreage down 100,000 hectares; the DAE director general says about 5.9 million hectares of aman are in good condition and expects a bumper cro
