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AgribusinessAt the 18th Asian Apicultural Association conference opening in China on 15 October, a 21-member Bangladesh team will present two studies, on honey quality control and modern beekeeping, and two posters including Sundarbans GI honey.
HealthKhulna City Corporation has told a supplier to take back 2,000 litres of larvicide worth about Tk 56 lakh that failed a field test, and is buying stopgap stock at Tk 4,400 a litre from a navy-run firm.
On International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, experts said a strong El Nino could raise drought and heatwave risk in Bangladesh, driving up irrigation demand and farm costs, and urged earlier seasonal forecasts so farmers can be warned in time.
Bidyanondo Foundation has built a sculpture from five tonnes of waste plastic on Cox's Bazar beach to show the scale of sea pollution; entry to a film beside it costs two used plastic bottles.
EnvironmentResorts and cottages built by cutting hills and forest in Moulvibazar now number about 200, most with no clear approval on record; in August and September pythons, cobras, fishing cats and other animals left Lawachara for nearby villages.
AgribusinessMore than 47,000 people applied for about 5,000 fertiliser dealerships; people involved say about 80 percent of those named in the agriculture ministry's partial list for 55 districts are inexperienced holders of new trade licences.
EnvironmentConcrete blocks now carry 15 percent VAT on the sale price and makers want 3 percent; the government wants blocks to replace fired clay bricks, which strip farmland fertility and pollute the air.
OrganicAt a UBINIG and Nayakrishi Andolon rally in Ishwardi and Atgharia, Farhad Mazhar urged farmers to drop chemical fertiliser and pesticide and keep local varieties, while farmer Abul Hossain said his chemical-free vegetables fetch higher prices.
Islam186 agencies failed to register the 44-pilgrim minimum and 32 registered none, while one lead agency meant to coordinate 2,000 pilgrims signed up just 39, raising questions over how lead agencies were chosen.
HealthThe government will repurpose money from a 2021 European Investment Bank Covid loan to reach about 47 million women and girls, with early detection of cervical and breast cancer and stronger district hospitals, it told partners in Berlin.
CropsNeighbours thought it was a vermicompost works. A raid in Pirganj, Rangpur, found chemicals, brick dust, sawdust and empty branded packets used, officials believe, to make counterfeit fertiliser, pesticides and cattle feed.
CropsThe government app meant to let farmers sell paddy straight to state warehouses will not open in Mymensingh, and agriculture officers in all 13 upazilas are reluctant to draw up farmer lists that, they say, food offices ignore.
FlowersIn three months, four young men turned the walls along about 800 feet of road in Bashbari Colony, Mymensingh, into a hanging garden of orchids, flowers and foliage plants grown in discarded buckets, mugs and baskets.
