Environment Under Threat, a New Drive for Awareness
As plastic and polythene pollution damages rivers, fish and farmland in Barguna's Patharghata, local man Shafikul Islam Khokon is campaigning to get people to give up plastic.
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As plastic and polythene pollution damages rivers, fish and farmland in Barguna's Patharghata, local man Shafikul Islam Khokon is campaigning to get people to give up plastic.
At a World Wildlife Day event in Dhaka, environment adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan said the government is working to bring animals lost from Bangladesh back into the wild.
A barking deer chased by dogs and held by villagers at Sitakunda's Olinagar embankment was rescued by coastal forest staff and taken for treatment.
A disabled farmer in Tangail's Sakhipur has a bumper lemon crop on 5 acres and hopes to sell Tk 3 to 4 lakh worth during Ramadan.
A farmer in Chandpur's Matlab Uttar hopes for a bumper sunflower crop in his third season, while visitors come from far away to see and photograph the blooms.
A cat stuck on a beam under the Dhaka Elevated Expressway was rescued at dawn on 2 March by volunteers using a baited trap, after city corporation efforts with ladders failed.
Blossom has come to lychee trees across Dinajpur, and growers and agriculture officials expect a bumper harvest if the weather holds.
Ample supply and imports are keeping fruit prices fairly low in Kolkata's wholesale markets as Ramadan begins, traders say.
Dr Forkan Ali argues that Bangladesh's largely untapped coal, limestone, white clay, glass sand and other minerals, valued by the GSB at over $2.26 trillion, could earn much foreign exchange.
With floods cutting the aman harvest, Bangladesh is counting on a boro crop of 2.26 crore tonnes, which will need a set of steps on seed, water, fertiliser, credit and procurement.
Potato farmers in Lalmonirhat blocked the Lalmonirhat-Rangpur highway with potatoes for two hours in protest at cold storage rent doubling to Tk 8 a kg.
A field trial in Gopalganj found BINA Sarisha-11 out-yielding BARI Sarisha-14 and a local mustard variety, and scientists say it could help cut edible oil imports.
Chakma farmers in Teknaf, Cox's Bazar, are growing mustard on hill land for the first time and harvesting honey from bee boxes set around the fields.