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Farmers in Ulipur, Kurigram, surrounded a sub-assistant agriculture officer at Gabtali bazar on Friday evening, alleging that dealers are not selling urea at the government price while retailers charge up to Tk 50 a kilogram; police freed him after about half an hour.
Md. Laskar Ali, 71, has pressed pure mustard oil in a horse-drawn wooden ghani in Narayantala village on the Sunamganj border for 45 years; the business has kept his family comfortable and earned him an honour from the upazila administration.
Since 2010 the German town of Andernach has grown fruit and vegetables in its parks and squares for residents to pick free of charge, with 8,000 square metres of vegetables in town, a 13-hectare farm on public land outside it, and 400 tomato varieties in a single year.
Farmers who arrived at a dealer's point in Nageshwari's Gabtala Bazar to find the fertiliser gone blocked the Madarganj-Kachakata road with tree trunks on Friday morning and confined a sub-assistant agriculture officer in the warehouse for about four hours.
Observed on 18 September since 2010, World Bamboo Day carries the message "Bamboo Beyond Borders" this year; research shows bamboo stores carbon and holds soil, while a 2018 report warns that Bangladesh's bamboo supply is falling.
The Bakshiganj upazila administration stopped a van in Tupkarchar village of Merurchar union at around 1am on Thursday night and seized 23 sacks of fertiliser; officials are tracing where the consignment came from and where it was headed.
In Habiganj's Satchari National Park, named for seven hill streams, four streams no longer exist and the other three barely flow; with the forest ponds filled by sand and silt, officials and experts warn the park's 197 animal species could run short of water in the coming dry season.
More than 300 bonsai priced from Tk 500 to Tk 6 lakh are on display at the Bangladesh Bonsai Society's 25th annual exhibition in Dhanmondi; organisers say the craft remains a hobby in Bangladesh and has yet to become a profession.
Sangeeth and Kavya of Kerala, India, have turned their home into a closed loop of vegetables, fish and mushroom growing, cows and chickens, dung-fed biogas, rooftop solar and beehives, in which the waste of one system feeds the next.
Chittagong University research points to estuary plankton and the fat it builds; only about 2 per cent of Bangladesh's hilsa comes directly from the Padma, while most of the big, flavoursome fish are caught in the Meghna basin.
Loose atta has gone up Tk 5 a kilo and maida Tk 10 in a month; broiler sells at Tk 190-200 a kilo and a dozen brown eggs at Tk 150, unchanged for six weeks.
At the Syed Humayun Kabir Memorial Research Symposium, the water and climate specialist cited weak coordination between ministries, little help from the agriculture and health ministries, and donor-funded documents that 'gather dust on the shelf'.
A seal leak in the RC pump and low gas pressure mean no production before Saturday; the 1,100-tonne-a-day factory made only 65,000 tonnes of urea in all of 2025-26.
