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AgrotechSensors in the pond, live data on a phone, automatic feeding, drones and AI: a young Bangladeshi's smart fish-farming system raises output by a quarter and cuts feed, labour and water costs.
AgrotechSensors, drones, automation and data: how agricultural technology raises output, cuts cost, gets the timing right and protects the environment — and what it could mean for Bangladesh's farms.
VegetablesKnown as gor alu, guichcha alu or lema alu, the purple yam grows on trellises and around homesteads at almost no cost and with almost no disease. Land, seed treatment, planting, care and harvest.
VegetablesVarieties from Bogura to Kamranga, the nursery bed, spacing, the fertiliser dose per hectare, irrigation and the whitefly and thrips that attack the crop — a working guide to growing chilli for yield.
OthersFood security, GDP, jobs, poverty, raw materials, exports, the environment and culture itself: eight ways agriculture holds up Bangladesh, and the kinds of farming — crop, commercial, organic, irrigated — that make it up.
LivestockLaying at six to seven weeks, 250–260 eggs a year, ten birds in the space of one hen: why the Japanese quail is the smallholder's fastest-earning bird, and how to breed, brood, cage and feed it.
AgrotechNew initiative aims to systematically collect, preserve and analyze field-level agricultural data to support researchers, evidence-based decision-making and policy development in Bangladesh
Homestead farmingWith his university closed by the pandemic, Shaon of Munshiganj turned the roof into a garden — roses to Thai lilies, Katimon to banana mango. The winner of The Agro News Eid competition on pots, half-drums, tanks and drainage.
BangladeshBorn in Chandpur on 7 September 1954, the founder-director of Channel i spent four decades bringing the farmer to the centre of the screen — from Mati O Manush on BTV to Hridoye Mati O Manush. A portrait on his 71st birthday.
CropsBy the 2017–18 count Bangladesh grew 32.65 million tonnes of rice, behind only China, India and Indonesia — more than three times what it harvested at independence. The top-ten table.
