AgrotechDevelopment Journalism and Television (Part 1)
Shykh Seraj on the roots of development journalism in the Green Revolution, and why he turned television into a tool for spreading farm technology.
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Shykh Seraj
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Agrotech
CropsWheat Blast: Scientists Race to Prevent Losses
The first outbreak of wheat blast in Bangladesh, on 15,000 hectares in eight districts, has prompted local and international scientists to work together on prevention.
Rooftop farmingA Dairy Farm on the Roof of a Seven-Storey Building in Chattogram
In Chattogram, Mahbub Rabbani has kept a dairy farm on the roof of a seven-storey building for 16 years, selling pure milk to neighbours.
AgribusinessA Farmers' Fish Market in Mymensingh
A fish farmer in Mymensingh has built a market where farmers from four upazilas sell directly, getting better prices and cutting out middlemen.
LivestockNew Prospects for the Nearly Endangered Guinea Fowl
A government project at Bangladesh Agricultural University's poultry science faculty is reviving the nearly endangered guinea fowl as a commercial bird.
Rooftop farmingProfessor Salam's Innovative Rooftop Farm
BAU aquaculture professor Abdus Salam, who pioneered bag gardens, has built a soilless, chemical-free rooftop system that links fish and crops.
Rooftop farmingGolam Haider's Commercial Rooftop Farm
In Rampura, Golam Haider runs a commercial rooftop nursery, experiments with aquaponics and campaigns through Bangladesh Green Roof Movement.
AgribusinessA Revolutionary Industrialist: Amjad Khan Chowdhury and PRAN
On his first death anniversary, Shykh Seraj recalls how PRAN founder Amjad Khan Chowdhury connected Bangladeshi farmers to agro-industry through contract farming and processing.
Rooftop farmingJane Alam's Rich Rooftop Farm in Badda
In Badda, former expatriate Jane Alam Jony has turned a 6,000 sq ft roof into a garden of more than a hundred plants in four years.
Rooftop farmingThe Nazimuddin Couple's Huge Garden on a Building Roof
In Gulshan-2, businessman Nazimuddin and his wife Shefali Begum have turned a 25-katha roof into a forest-like garden over ten years.
FruitsAshes on the Mango Season Before It Begins
Shykh Seraj finds that the early mangoes flooding markets were chemically ripened Indian imports, untested at the border while local growers waited.
CropsA Full Courtyard on the Roof of a State Minister's Flat
On the roof of the MPs' residential building, Aleya Azam has spent seven years building a garden of fruit, vegetables and medicinal plants.
CropsIn a Land of Six Seasons, Farmers' Dreams Centre on Rice
On Bengali New Year, the once-arid Barind region of Rajshahi shows how irrigation has changed rural life, though farmers still want fair rice prices.