Gallery
Colourful dragonflies fill a village path in Bogura
In Nuruil village in Bogura Sadar, hundreds of red, blue and yellow dragonflies have spread their wings on dried chilli plants and vegetable shoots.
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Crops
Tk 2.38 crore budgeted for outside soil, but Dinajpur canal bank is built from farmland
A Water Development Board contract at Parbatipur in Dinajpur set aside Tk 2,38,83,000 to bring about 59,708 cubic metres of earth from outside the project area to rebuild an irrigation canal bank. Instead, cropland on both banks is being dug 10 to 12 feet deep; the board confirmed the irregularity o
Fruits
Patiya farmer grows yellow 'Suryadim' watermelon on trellises in the monsoon
A 28-year-old agri-entrepreneur in Patiya, Chattogram, has grown the small yellow 'Suryadim' watermelon on 40 decimals of trellised land this monsoon and is selling it at Tk 120 a kilogram.
Market ManagementVegetable and fish prices climb in Dhaka after fuel rise; bottled soybean oil scarce
After diesel went up by Tk 20 a litre, several vegetables in Dhaka's markets rose by Tk 5-20 a kilogram and fish by Tk 20-50, while one- and two-litre bottles of soybean oil grew hard to find.
Fisheries
Cox's Bazar's dried popa fish sells to the US, Hong Kong and China, but catches are falling
One Cox's Bazar factory exported 70 tonnes of dried popa fish, produced at a cost of Tk 6 crore, to the US, Hong Kong and China last year; smaller catches are cutting this year's shipments.
Gallery
Deer, birds and nipa palms: Kochikhali in the Sundarbans, in pictures
Where the Bay of Bengal meets the Sundarbans mangroves, Kochikhali is home to deer, birds, butterflies and forests of golpata and gewa.
Fisheries
Three-kilogram Meghna hilsa fetches Tk 10,900 at Hatiya auction
A three-kilogram hilsa caught in the Meghna by fisherman Zahed Majhi was sold at an open auction at Hatiya's Chairman Ghat for Tk 10,900, to local trader Bishu Bepari.
Fisheries
Eighteen fishermen adrift in the Bay of Bengal since Saturday as trawler engine fails
A fishing trawler from Char Fasson in Bhola has drifted 80-100 km off Rangabali, Patuakhali, since its engine failed early on Saturday, and local agencies say they lack a vessel to reach it.
Bangladesh
Agriculture, health and education buildings escape the construction freeze
The finance ministry has exempted the education, health and agriculture ministries from its freeze on new government building work.
Vegetables
Padma surge floods 309 hectares of crops in three Rajshahi upazilas, char vegetables rot
Water from upstream submerged 309.59 hectares in Paba, Bagha and Godagari, including 45 ha of vegetables, 85 ha of black gram and 102 ha of turmeric; farmers at Kasba and Alimganj lost pointed gourd, cucumber, bitter gourd and early cauliflower, while the DAE says raised bunds and drainage saved abo
Environment
120,000 baen saplings revive hope for Chakaria Sundarbans as shrimp dykes block the tide
Trial plantings of baen (Avicennia) mangroves by the NGO CODEC in the Badarkhali channel and Rampura mouza of Chakaria, Cox's Bazar, are surviving well; experts say the near-vanished forest can return only if tidal flow, blocked by shrimp-farm embankments, is restored and three other barriers are re
Vegetables
No trip to the haat: Joypurhat village runs its own daily bitter gourd wholesale market
For 15 years farmers in Bakhera Komolgari village of Khetlal upazila have sold 250-300 maunds of bitter gourd a day to wholesalers under a tarpaulin shed by the mosque, skipping the twice-weekly haat three kilometres away.
Fisheries
Three hours, Tk 50 million: the dawn fish market at Chowar Fari in Cox's Bazar
Between 6 am and 9.30 am, 24 wholesale sheds and local fishermen at Chowar Fari in Matamuhuri upazila sell about Tk 50 million of mostly un-iced fish a day; July floods that breached shrimp enclosures have pushed prices up this year.