Bangladesh Fifth in the World in Fish Production
Social Welfare Minister Dr Dipu Moni said the country's fish production has doubled in 15 years, making Bangladesh fifth in the world and first in hilsa among 11 countries.
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Social Welfare Minister Dr Dipu Moni said the country's fish production has doubled in 15 years, making Bangladesh fifth in the world and first in hilsa among 11 countries.
Farmers in Sonargaon, Narayanganj, are profiting from commercial banana farming, among them 60-year-old Abdus Sobhan, who planted a large orchard three years ago.
After rain in Asharh but none in mid-Srabon, aman farmers in Dinajpur face drought and are irrigating their fields to plant and save seedlings.
Chandpur caught 34,326 tonnes of hilsa in a year, District Fisheries Officer Md Golam Mehedi Hasan said on Tuesday morning (30 July).
Buyers from other districts have stopped coming to Meherpur amid the student movement and curfew, leaving vegetables to rot in the fields and prices down by half.
Cucumber, radish and green chilli, the key salad ingredients in Bangladesh, can all be grown in the rainy season, when they give higher yields.
Tarek Aziz, 22, known in Chattogram's Mirsharai upazila as the 'friend of snakes', rescues snakes that people want to kill and releases them into the forest.
Trade at Kansat, Bangladesh's largest mango market, has largely recovered after shutdown and curfew cut daily sales sharply.
Camera traps captured more tiger photos than before in the Sundarbans, but internet disruption has pushed the census result to next month.
A 13-year-old schoolgirl bitten by a snake in her bed in Kalia, Narail, died while being treated at the upazila health complex.
A small cold store built with Department of Agricultural Extension support on a Bagha farmer's land has kept its first 9 tonnes of mangoes intact.
A pregnant woman died after being bitten by a snake at her doorstep in Shibchar, Madaripur, having first been taken to a traditional healer.
A dry monsoon has forced farmers in Nandigram, Bogura, to run tubewells to prepare Aman fields, raising costs and worries about this season's crop.