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AgrotechJapanese scientist Yuichi Mori grows vegetables without soil on a polymer film adapted from kidney dialysis membranes; the BBC reported that the method uses 90 percent less water than conventional farming and no pesticides.
FlowersA guide to the winter chrysanthemum in Bangladesh: BARI's two varieties, raising plants from cuttings and suckers, per-hectare fertiliser doses and official advice on thrips and aphids.
FruitsAs new-season jalpai olives reached Bangladeshi markets in October 2024, Jagonews24 published an easy recipe for a whole olive pickle cooked in vinegar and mustard oil.
EnvironmentOn the night of 9 May 2023 a 12-foot Burmese python weighing about 20 kg was rescued from a colony beside the science faculty of Chittagong University and released on a secluded hill.
FruitsAs mango trees moved from blossom to fruit set in late March 2020, Jagonews24 listed four causes of blossom and fruitlet drop (bad weather, dry soil, hoppers and anthracnose) and the orchard care and spray timing that limit the losses.
Rabishankar Maitri, a Bangladeshi writer and researcher living in France, shares a recipe for a home-made mosquito repellent cream and other neem remedies.
Mango and litchi trees are heavy with blossom this spring, and growers expect a bumper harvest if storms and hail stay away.
A Kaliganj farmer who started with 100 bay leaf saplings in 2008 now has 400 trees on four bighas and says he sells about Tk 12 lakh of leaves a year.
ECNEC has approved a Tk 161 crore project to raise fruit production by 20 per cent and make fruit available throughout the year.
A returned migrant worker's mobile duck farm on a beel in Delduar, Tangail, is producing about 350 eggs a day and, he says, more than a lakh taka a month.
The government plans a Tk 230.80 crore flower research centre on 20 hectares at Jhikargachha, Jashore, to raise flower production and cut post-harvest losses.
A month-by-month guide to the vegetable and fruit work farmers in Bangladesh should do through the year, from Baishakh to Chaitra.
A temperature above 20 degrees Celsius has been recorded in Antarctica for the first time, on Seymour Island at the continent's northern tip.
