Crops
Mango Fruit Setting in Naogaon, Growers Busy Tending Orchards
Naogaon's mango blossom is turning into young fruit, but with no traders yet buying orchards, growers are busy spraying and tending the trees themselves.
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Crops
Mojar Has Been Eating Live Snakes and Scorpions for 15 Years
Day labourer Md Mojar Mia of Kurigram has been eating live snakes, scorpions, raw cow blood and tripe for 15 years, and neighbours want him treated.
Bangladesh
Nine Monitor Lizards Recovered in Chauddagram From Smugglers Bound for India
Border Guard Bangladesh seized nine monitor lizards being smuggled into India from the Chauddagram border in Cumilla, and they were released into the forest.
Crops
Tk 4.65 Lakh Fine for Stealing One Sack of Chicken Feed
Village heads in Bhangura, Pabna fined two men Tk 4,65,000 over the alleged theft of a single sack of poultry feed from a farm.
Crops
Blossom Pleased the Eye, but Young Mangoes Disappoint
Despite heavy blossom, Fazli and Ashwina mango trees in Chapainawabganj have set little fruit, and growers are worried about the yield.
Crops
Storms and Hail Feared on Friday and Saturday: What Farmers Should Do to Protect Crops
With storms and hail forecast for 31 March and 1 April, the Agriculture Information Service has told farmers how to limit damage to standing crops.
Agribusiness
CAB Demands Punishment for Those Who Looted the Chicken Market Through a Syndicate
The Consumers Association of Bangladesh demanded strict punishment for traders who made crores of taka through a broiler chicken syndicate.
Crops
Farmer Dies of Snakebite in Sherpur
Farmer Aynal Haque (38) died after being bitten by a snake while checking his paddy field in Nalitabari upazila of Sherpur.
Agribusiness
Marginal Farmers Ruined by Corporate Companies' 'Manipulation'
Bangladesh Poultry Association accuses a handful of corporate companies of pushing broiler prices down whenever marginal farmers' birds are ready for sale, and has proposed three steps including a poultry board.
Agribusiness
Shopkeeper Fined for Buying Sick Chickens and Selling Them at Extra Profit
A trader in Nabiganj upazila of Habiganj was fined Tk 5,000 for buying sick chickens cheaply and selling them at a profit, and more than a hundred sick and dead birds were buried.
Crops
Not Extortion or Begging: Hijra Group Wins Attention With Farming in Gazipur
Instead of collecting money from people, a group of third-gender people (hijras) in Gazipur has taken up farming on 13 bigha of sharecropped land.
Bangladesh
After the Nilgai, Now a Langur Arrives
After a nilgai, a langur (mukhpora hanuman) has crossed into Dinajpur from India and has been roaming the Hili-Birampur border area for several days, tired and short of food.
Agribusiness
Extortion With Elephants Goes On in Narail
Mahouts in Narail are openly collecting Tk 2,000 to Tk 2,500 a day by taking elephants onto roads and into markets, with many people paying out of fear or embarrassment.