Fisheries
Bangladesh seeks deeper fisheries and livestock cooperation with Italy
Bangladesh has expressed interest in stronger bilateral cooperation with Italy in aquaculture, livestock, marine fisheries and the blue economy.
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Krishi Shomoy
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Vegetables
A village bitter gourd market saves Joypurhat farmers the trek to the haat
The bitter gourd wholesale market at Bakhera Komolgari village in Khetlal, running for about 15 years, is paying growers well.
Livestock
Livestock minister pledges proper recognition for research and innovation
At the 49th board meeting of BLRI, fisheries, livestock and agriculture minister Mohammad Amin Ur Rashid said the innovations of scientists will be properly recognised.
Livestock
Staff shortage keeps a Gaibandha animal clinic shut for eight years
Both posts at the Taluk Jamira animal welfare centre in Palashbari, Gaibandha have been vacant for eight years, leaving cattle without treatment.
Vegetables
Early bean crop pays off for Jhenaidah growers
Early vegetables cover 41 hectares in Harinakunda upazila of Jhenaidah, where growers are selling beans at good prices for a modest outlay.
Vegetables
Joypurhat farmers lift income by putting fallow land under vegetables
Summer vegetables cover 130 hectares in Khetlal upazila of Joypurhat this season, 60 hectares of it bitter gourd.
Vegetables
Dinajpur growers rush the early winter vegetable crop
Fulbari upazila in Dinajpur has set a target of 150 hectares of early winter vegetables, with output put at about 3,375 tonnes.
Environment
Five thousand palm seeds go out on the Padma chars to blunt lightning
Faridpur zila parishad has distributed five thousand palm seeds and assorted saplings across the chars of ten unions in three Padma-side upazilas.
Environment
25,000 acacias vanish from Garo hills social-forestry plot; 25 families lose Tk 40 lakh
Almost every tree of a plantation raised in 2017-18 at Daodhara-Katabari mouza in the Madhutila range of Nalitabari has been cut; the partners say the Forest Department could have stopped it, the range officer says he knew nothing, and the divisional forest officer has formed an inquiry committee.
Vegetables
Flooding and rain sink Munshiganj's Tk 20 crore vegetable-seedling trade as seedlings rot
The district DAE puts the August-December seedling trade on about 10 hectares at Panchasar at Tk 15-20 crore; with fields waterlogged, farmers cannot transplant and buyers have stopped coming, while heavy rain rots cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli, tomato, brinjal and chilli seedlings under their bamb
Crops
Manikganj soils lose fertility to excess fertiliser: 12 maunds now where 10 did in 2020
This aman and early-vegetable season Manikganj has 15,917 tonnes of urea, 5,470 of TSP, 12,201 of DAP and 7,202 of MOP allocated; sub-assistant agriculture officer Jesmin Jerin says organic matter has fallen below five per cent in many fields against the five to seven needed, and farmers are using m
Crops
Two-hour Pakundia haat sells Tk 60-70 lakh of betel leaf from 65 hectares of vines
At Pakundia municipal betel market in Kishoreganj, two hours of trading before sunrise on Saturdays and Wednesdays move Tk 60-70 lakh of leaf, topping Tk 1 crore a haat in winter; a good kuri (20 bira of 120 leaves) fetches Tk 4,000-4,500, and the upazila agriculture office counts about 65 hectares
Environment
55,000 acres of Chattogram region forest under encroachment, one guard for 1,497 acres
About 55,123 acres of forest in Chattogram, Cox's Bazar and Bandarban are occupied, and 572 forest guards patrol the region's 855,968 acres of woodland.