Tania Chowdhary is an agriculture researcher and writer covering AgriTech, agricultural innovation, climate-smart farming and rural development. She turns research, farm data and field knowledge into clear, practical stories for farmers and readers. · 58 stories
OthersFood security, national income, jobs, poverty, industrial raw materials, exports and culture: eight ways farming holds Bangladesh up. Alongside them, the many kinds of farming practised in the country, the path to modern agriculture and the challenges facing the people who work the land.
LivestockLaying at six to seven weeks, more than 250 eggs a year, and eight to ten birds in the space of a single hen. How the Japanese quail turns a little money, a little space and a little feed into a steady income, from choosing birds and breeding to brooding chicks, building cages, feeding and keeping the floor dry.
AgrotechNorth South University and the Shykh Seraj Initiative have launched a joint initiative to systematically collect, verify, preserve and analyse field-level agricultural data, to support researchers, evidence-based decision-making and policy development in Bangladesh and to bridge the field and the academy.
Homestead farmingWith his university closed by the pandemic, Saiful Islam Shaon of Munshiganj turned his roof into a garden, from roses and Thai lilies to Katimon and banana mangoes. The winner of The Agro News Eid competition shares his methods for pots, half-drums, tanks and drainage.
BangladeshBorn in Chandpur on 7 September 1954, the founder-director and head of news 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 its harvest at independence. How three rice seasons, the haor wetlands and new varieties built that record, with the full top-ten table.
