Fruits
Sweet Malta Orchards Spread Village by Village in Pirojpur
Malta orchards are spreading across villages in Pirojpur Sadar, where marginal farmer Rebati Sikder earned about 70,000 taka from 150 trees on his homestead.
Journalists
Shykh Seraj
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Rooftop farming
A Farming-Minded Couple Fulfils a Dream on Their Roof
In Adabor, agricultural extension officials A B M Siddique and Anwara Sharmin have turned their six-storey roof into a farm of about 60 kinds of plants.
Rooftop farming
A Housewife's Success With a Rooftop Garden
At government officers' quarters in Eskaton, Sufia Akhtar Jahan has built a rooftop garden of about 50 species that has won national recognition.
Agribusiness
Farewell to an Economist Devoted to Agriculture
Shykh Seraj pays tribute to development economist Dr Mahbub Hossain, whose work on rice research, food security and sharecropper credit shaped Bangladesh's agriculture.
Environment
A Farm on Unused Land at RAB Headquarters
At the Rapid Action Battalion headquarters in Dhaka, unused, polluted land has been turned into an organic integrated farm over three years.
Organic
Biological Pest Control Spreads Worldwide
UK-based Russell IPM, where a young Bangladeshi scientist leads research, supplies pheromone-based pest control to 145 countries as an alternative to pesticides.
Livestock
Texel, the Netherlands' Kingdom of Sheep
On the Dutch island of Texel, family sheep farms with strict stocking limits produce world-famous sheep's milk cheese.
Agrotech
Windmills, a Living Legacy of Dutch Civilisation
Shykh Seraj visits Zaanse Schans, where 12 of some 13,000 historic Dutch windmills still work, a reminder of how old the idea of renewable energy is.
Bangladesh
Farming Traditions Are Fading
In both England's Shropshire and Bangladesh's Muladuli, landowning families are leaving farming, and in Bangladesh sharecroppers are taking over and prospering.
Fruits
Uganda, the Kingdom of Bananas
In Uganda, where bananas are the staple and main crop, BRAC is producing tissue-culture seedlings to help farmers fight Panama disease.
Opinion
Food Security Versus Hidden Hunger
On World Food Day, Shykh Seraj examines why hunger and malnutrition persist despite rising food supply, and where Bangladesh stands.
Fisheries
Disease Kills Koi Fish, Ruining Hundreds of Farmers
A mass die-off of Vietnamese koi has ruined hundreds of fish farmers, and BFRI scientists have linked it to bacteria and poor pond water.
Fisheries
The Nearly Extinct Gang Magur Returns
Nurul Haque of Brahmaputra Fish Seed Hatchery in Mymensingh has bred the nearly extinct gang magur, raising hopes of reviving the native fish for farmers.