Crops
Aus Rice Transforms Farming in the North
A short-duration Aus rice variety has enabled a four-crop rotation on northern highlands, bringing a harvest in the lean flood season.
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
Rooftop farming
Dr Wadud Mostafa's Household of Plants
In Rangpur, Professor Dr Abdul Wadud Mostafa has made a household of plants and pigeons his companions since his wife's death 25 years ago.
Vegetables
Development Journalism and Television (Final Part)
In the final part of his essay, Shykh Seraj explains how his programmes moved from production to fair prices, value addition and farmers' wellbeing.
Vegetables
Development Journalism and Television (Part 2)
Shykh Seraj describes how he changed his language, approach and even his clothing to reach farmers through television in the early years of Mati O Manush.
Agrotech
Development 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.
Crops
Wheat 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 farming
A 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.
Agribusiness
A 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.
Livestock
New 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 farming
Professor 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 farming
Golam Haider's Commercial Rooftop Farm
In Rampura, Golam Haider runs a commercial rooftop nursery, experiments with aquaponics and campaigns through Bangladesh Green Roof Movement.
Agribusiness
A 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.
Bangladesh
The First Handwritten Quran Is Being Carefully Preserved
A Quran fragment found during renovation work in Birmingham, believed to have been written in the Prophet Muhammad's lifetime, is being carefully preserved and drawing visitors.