Stories by Protidiner Bangladesh

Antibiotics are failing on Bangladesh's farms, with E. coli up to 98% resistant

Indiscriminate 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.

Protidiner Bangladesh1 October 20263 min read

Crops

Bangladesh lost 30% of its farmland in 52 years, yet rice, wheat and maize output soared

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.

Protidiner Bangladesh24 September 20262 min read

Crops

80% of Bangladesh's insects are beneficial, but excess pesticide is killing them

A 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.

Protidiner Bangladesh23 September 20262 min read

Fruits

Polytunnels bring an off-season watermelon crop to Kurigram

In Rajarhat, Kurigram, farmer Zaman Mia is growing off-season and year-round watermelon under polytunnels with mulching and pheromone traps.

Protidiner Bangladesh22 September 20261 min read

Agribusiness

Bangladesh's first community-owned agro-tourism project unveils its design in Kahalu

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.

Protidiner Bangladesh19 September 20262 min read

Market Management

Polao rice becomes a luxury: chinigura at Tk 180-200 a kg, prices doubled in a year, restaurant polao sales down 30-40 percent

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

Protidiner Bangladesh16 September 20263 min read

Crops

Agriculture ministry opens a fertiliser control room: 27 teams in two shifts until 24 September, hotline 050351 and 14 directives against hoarding and artificial shortage

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.

Protidiner Bangladesh13 September 20262 min read

Fisheries

Why native freshwater fish have vanished from Dhaka's markets: half to 60 percent is imported or farmed, open water down 34.5 percent in 40 years, 64 species at risk

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

Protidiner Bangladesh12 September 20263 min read

Fisheries

Fisheries and livestock ministry's 180-day scorecard: 27,969 water bodies listed, 180 million vaccine doses, a pangas vaccine and two tuna long-liners

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

Protidiner Bangladesh8 September 20263 min read