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Naogaon has become a major mango district but has no research centre besides the Soil Resource Development Institute, and stakeholders say it needs one along with processing houses.
A deer bitten by dogs in the Haringhata protected forest in Barguna's Patharghata jumped into a river and later died while being treated.
Environment Minister Md Shahab Uddin says the government is taking steps to protect people from wild elephant attacks, including solar fencing and prompt compensation.
A woman bitten by a snake hidden in firewood came to Chuadanga Sadar Hospital with the dead snake, and doctors say she is out of danger for now.
Bangladesh's seasons are shifting fast, and experts blame both global climate change and the local loss of wetlands, forests and greenery.
The government wants blast-hit BRRI dhan28 out of farmers' fields quickly and is urging growers to switch to newer varieties, the agriculture minister said.
Mango is nutritious, but eating it with or just after certain foods such as yoghurt, bitter gourd or soft drinks can upset the stomach.
A third of the country's boro paddy and 90 per cent in the vulnerable haor wetlands had been harvested by 30 April, the agriculture minister said.
Unknown people set fire overnight to paddy that farmer Israil Hossain had cut and stacked in his field in Satkhira's Kalaroa upazila.
Chapainawabganj's Langra and Ashwina mangoes are set to win geographical indication status, which would give the district four GI mangoes.
Chhatra League activists in Chuadanga harvested four bighas of paddy for farmers short of money and labour, answering the prime minister's call.
A student and media worker recalls racing his cousins to gather storm-fallen mangoes during childhood summers in his uncle's village.
Jubo League activists in Netrokona, led by Advocate Mashhudul Mannan Trisha, harvested ripe paddy for a farmer who could not afford labourers.
