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GalleryProthom Alo's district photographers on 8 October: jute drying and bottle gourds for sale in Faridpur, bitter gourd in Gazipur, cauliflower and tomato seedlings in Rajshahi, a brinjal field in Bandarban, and birds and butterflies.
GalleryAt the fish landing centre on Port Road in Barishal city, river catches are unloaded and sold from first light; hilsa, rohu and pangas alongside pomfret, goby and croaker.
GalleryThe world's largest bird photography competition drew more than 24,000 images this year; from a dancing western parotia to waterbirds for sale in a Cambodian market.
VegetablesExtension and marketing department data show Rangpur potato growers made losses in seven of the twelve years from 2014 to 2025; the region grows a quarter of the crop but can cold-store only 22 percent of it.
GallerySagar banana planting has doubled in a few years in Rangpur's Sadar, Mithapukur, Pirgachha and Pirganj upazilas; a photo story from Shyampur, Badarganj, follows the bunches from tree to truck.
FruitsUnpaid when schools shut during Covid, Mranuching Marma began raising saplings from mango stones in Khagrachhari; her one-acre nursery now earns about Tk 20 lakh a year.
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics data show GDP growth in the fourth and final quarter (April-June) of 2025-26 rose to 4.60 percent, up from 2.05 percent in the same quarter a year earlier.
GalleryProthom Alo photographer Anis Mahmud's pictures show the Piyain shrunk to a narrow channel after the rains, kash flowers among the stones, tourists in boats and a waterfall run dry.
GalleryProthom Alo photographer Supriyo Chakma's pictures from Mounaghar, Shimujjechhara and Bhuter Tila show an old farmer checking rice ears, a woman weeding and fishers setting out on a misty lake.
GalleryBOC Ghat on the Meghna is one of the country's biggest paddy markets; in its mill yards men and women spread paddy from dawn and rush to heap and cover it when clouds appear.
EnvironmentBotany professor Chayan Bikash Bhadra of Muminunnessa Government College describes Litsea glutinosa, its flowers, fruit and folk uses, and warns that deforestation has made it far scarcer.
GalleryProthom Alo's photographers on 7 October: paddy drying in Khulna, early potato planting in Rangpur, harvesters and beekeepers in Rajshahi, and Chandpur fishermen putting nets away before the hilsa ban.
EnvironmentMeteorologists say average winter temperatures may run above normal and cold waves may be brief; with less rain, fog may thicken, and irrigation demand may rise in the boro season.
