Ashwina Mangoes Fail to Fetch a Price in Their GI Year
Chapainawabganj's Ashwina mango recently won geographical indication status, but this year farmers cannot recover their production costs from selling it.
Reporting from this source, summarised, rewritten or translated and published under its name · 5987 stories
Chapainawabganj's Ashwina mango recently won geographical indication status, but this year farmers cannot recover their production costs from selling it.
A mobile court in Chandanaish jailed bus driver Md Jasim Uddin for two months after an endangered black langur was recovered from his bus.
Chuadanga Sadar Hospital alone treated 48 snakebite patients in July, four of whom died, as snakes become more common in the district.
Thanks to Amrapali and BARI varieties, mangoes are still plentiful in Dhaka's markets in August, though prices are rising as the season lengthens.
At a home in Kalmakanda, Netrokona, a pet fox named Lalu eats and sleeps alongside ducks, chickens and goats.
A 40-year-old bonsai 'Fai Bot' tree priced at Tk 5.5 lakh is the talk of Barishal's divisional tree fair.
Young entrepreneur Md Omar Sharif has become the first to grow avocado on trial in Mirsarai, and now plans to expand and sell seedlings.
Nachole grower Rafiqul Islam sent one tonne of Gourmati mangoes to Sweden, adding to about 10 tonnes he has exported this year.
A lack of rain at the height of the season has left Mirsarai farmers unsure whether they can grow aman at all this year.
A slow loris has left the forest and has been wandering around homes in Mirsarai's Madhyam Wahedpur for four days.
The foreign ministry planted 16 saplings at the Foreign Service Academy, one for each member of Bangabandhu's family, to mark August.
Md Nurul Alam, who worked in IT, is growing desert dates commercially on the hills of Matiranga in Khagrachhari.
After officials failed to come for six hours, a Hyderabad man caught the snake in his home himself and released it in the municipal office.