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VegetablesIn Matiranga, Khagrachhari, where pointed gourd was hardly grown, sharecropper Anwar Hossain learned from YouTube videos and grows BARI-1 and BARI-2 on trellises in a paddy field; two neighbours have followed him.
FisheriesBangladesh Oceanographic Research Institute studies found an average of seven or more microplastic particles in commercial Bay of Bengal fish; fishers say plastic now comes up in every net, and a BRAC survey puts plastic reaching Cox's Bazar's sea at 34.5 tonnes a day.
AgribusinessUnable to find a job, S A Zahid began with lachha semai in 2019; today his 25-bigha farm at Nandakul in Shajahanpur and online platforms sell mustard oil, chilli powder, ghee, fish and vegetables worth Tk 80 lakh to Tk 1 crore a month.
LivestockIndiscriminate use of antibiotics without a vet's advice is making farm bacteria drug-resistant; a Department of Livestock Services study found E. coli on poultry farms up to 98 per cent resistant to 19 antibiotics.
Between 1971 and 2023 Bangladesh's cultivated land shrank by 30 per cent while rice output rose 3.8 times and wheat 17.27 times, a BARC workshop for agriculture reporters was told.
CropsA BARI entomologist told a BARC workshop that vegetables carry 10% and fruit 4% more pesticide than the approved dose, and urged a shift from chemical pesticides to biopesticides.
In Rajarhat, Kurigram, farmer Zaman Mia is growing off-season and year-round watermelon under polytunnels with mulching and pheromone traps.
At the Asian Tourism Fair, Sukher Khamar Agro Limited showed plans for a 100-room resort beside a 400-cattle farm, fish ponds and a 1 MW solar plant in Kahalu, Bogura, with more than a thousand partners from 21 countries.
Bangladesh grows 18-20 lakh tonnes of aromatic rice a year by DAE's count; millers and restaurateurs blame hoarding and a one-off export approval of 61,000 tonnes; on 8 September the commerce ministry halved the permitted export quantity after 129 firms shipped 2,419 tonnes between 13 May and 30 Aug
An order signed on 10 September by deputy secretary Md Maksudul Islam sets up the room in the ministry's Room 528 under the additional secretary for fertiliser management and inputs; two dealers' complaints had been logged by 2 pm on Sunday, joint secretary Akhtarunnahar said.
Official catch figures from natural waters have more than doubled since 1983-84, yet wild fish are scarce at Karwan Bazar and Jatrabari; 5.97 million kg of frozen rui and katla came through Chattogram port in 2024, officials blame Farakka and dying river flows, and BFRI is breeding threatened specie
A progress report sent to the Prime Minister's Office on 16 August says most of the 35 actions in the first 180-day programme were fully delivered, from cancelling leases under the 'nets to the fisher, water to the fisher' policy to 100 salt- and drought-tolerant fish farms and insurance for 3,600 a
