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EnvironmentA University of Rajshahi study finds that only 1 percent of Chalan Beel's 5,097 square kilometres has very high groundwater potential, with falling rainfall and boro irrigation pumping among the main causes.
The agriculture department expects Lakshmipur to sell about Tk 710 crore of areca nut this season; more than a hundred markets are busy, and the climbers who pick the nuts earn Tk 2,500 to 3,000 a day.
Suman Ahmed of Babuganj, Barishal, used his earnings as a painter abroad to buy the land his father once sharecropped; his 173-decimal farm grows papaya, vegetables and fish and aims to raise two million papaya seedlings this year.
An African rhinoceros alone since 2013, a hamadryas baboon, a kangaroo and seven more animals at the National Zoo in Mirpur have no mate of their own species, in pictures by Prothom Alo's Mir Hossain.
In a World Food Day column, Pavel Partha writes that a human-centred, trade-driven food system built on the Green Revolution is erasing Bangladesh's food diversity, and proposes village food-memory maps.
Atomic Energy Commission scientist Dr Afifa Khatun writes that colour and smell cannot prove honey is pure, and calls for regular laboratory testing and tracing of adulterated products.
Dietitian Nazneen S Mousumi says fried and sugary food at the school gate brings excess calories, salt and foodborne illness; fruit, boiled eggs or flattened rice with yoghurt make better snacks.
Writer and researcher Gawher Nayeem Wahra argues that from a poultry farm beside a Jhenaidah madrasa to charcoal kilns burning jute sticks, air pollution is spreading well beyond Dhaka.
Islamic teaching sets five conditions for tawbah: sincerity, remorse, abandoning the sin, resolve not to return to it, and repenting before death or the sun rising in the west.
Out to watch foxes in Thakurgaon, Professor Tuhin Wadud saw a jungle cat beside a riverside thicket and sugarcane field; photographer Rezaul Hafiz Rahi photographed one for the first time.
A national strategy targets a 50 per cent cut in high blood lead levels among children by 2030 and 95 per cent by 2035; a Dhaka seminar called for funding, laboratories and clean-up of contaminated sites.
AgrotechACI Motors has combined Yanmar harvester sensors and JAXA satellite data with AI and IoT to map rice production; its managing director wants easier financing for machines and a policy on farm drones.
Matching duties to ability, knowing people's talents up close, the right person in the right post, and hands-on training: four lessons in human resource management from the Prophet's life.
