Rooftop farming
Tajul Islam, a Rooftop Farmer for More Than Two Decades
Retired government official Tajul Islam of Indira Road has kept a rooftop farm since the early 1990s and designed his building around it.
Agricultural journalist
Shykh Seraj
Shykh Seraj is a Bangladeshi agricultural journalist and broadcaster, founding Director and Head of News of Channel i. He has made farming programmes for television since 1982: Mati O Manush on Bangladesh Television, then Hridoye Mati O Manush on Channel i from 2004. He received the Ekushey Padak (1995), the FAO A.H. Boerma Award (2008-09) and the Independence Award (2018). The Agro News publishes his programmes, reports and columns under his name. · 364 stories
Agribusiness
Boithakata Floating Market, a Tradition of the South
In Nazirpur, Pirojpur, the Boithakata floating market on the Belua river is the main trading centre for thousands of river-bound farm families.
VideoBabul's Remarkable Bottle Gourd Field in Bhaluka
Babul, an educated young man from a poor family in Bhaluka, Mymensingh, has set an example by growing bottle gourd on 30 bighas of hilly land.
Rooftop farming
Educated Young Man Builds a Farm Making Rooftop Farming Inputs
In Chuadanga, young entrepreneur Alimuzzaman Milton makes inputs for rooftop farming and tests new techniques, from PVC pipe growing to soilless mixes.
Vegetables
Educated Young Man Succeeds Growing Bottle Gourd on Fallow Land
In Bhaluka, Mymensingh, educated young man Babul has turned 30 bighas of leased jungle land into a profitable bottle gourd farm.
Rooftop farming
A Bank Officer's Successful Rooftop Farm in Rampura
In Rampura, Bangladesh Bank officer Mushheda Khanam Renu has built a rooftop farm and learned grafting to produce seedlings commercially.
Rooftop farming
A Housewife's Array of Plants on a Small Jashore Roof
On a roof of just 950 sq ft in Jashore, housewife Farhana Yasmin has arranged over a hundred plants and inspired women in her neighbourhood.
Vegetables
Early Winter Vegetables in Meherpur: Beans Pay Best
Early winter beans are the most profitable crop for Meherpur farmers, earning up to 80,000 taka a bigha, but pesticide use remains dangerous.
Rooftop farming
Two Generations of Rooftop Farming in West Rampura
In West Rampura, a rooftop farm begun two decades ago by a retired aviation official has passed to his daughter and inspires the next generation.
Crops
Baby Watermelon, Another Profitable Crop
In Chuadanga, off-season Black Baby watermelon grown on trellises has become a profitable crop, doubling in area in a year.
Flowers
Farmers Find Colourful Days
Flower farming is spreading quickly in southwest Bangladesh, where farmers say flowers pay better than rice and a roadside market trades crores of taka in season.
Rooftop farming
A Unique Eight-Year Rooftop Farm on a Three-Storey House
In Jashore, businessman Lutfor Rahman planned his roof for farming during construction, and now grows nearly all his family's fruit and vegetables there.
Crops
A Wide Array of Early Winter Crops in the Southwest
Early winter vegetables are earning southwest Bangladesh farmers large profits while the grip of middlemen weakens.