AgribusinessAmerican farms received 11.8 cents of every dollar spent on domestically produced food in 2024, against 12.1 cents in 2023, with the remaining 88.2 cents going to post-farm marketing costs.
Crisp fritters made with seasonal summer vegetables can turn vegetables into a snack everyone enjoys.
Satkhira's district administration has announced this season's mango picking calendar, allowing Himsagar to be harvested from 15 May.
About 70 'cattle hotels', known locally as khatals, have grown up around the Satmail cattle market in Sharsha, Jashore, housing traders' animals for a daily fee.
Perilla, a new oilseed crop adapted for Bangladesh by Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, could help meet edible oil demand and earn foreign currency.
Netrokona's haor farmers, already hit by rain damage and low prices, say traders are taking 42 to 45 kg of paddy for each 40 kg maund.
Habiganj's haors have a bumper boro crop this season, but paddy prices at their lowest in years leave farmers unable to cover costs or repay advances.
A joint force in Satkhira seized and destroyed 3,360 kg of immature mangoes being sent to market, allegedly ripened with ethylene.
Fresh chilli sauce made at home with red chillies, garlic and vinegar is healthier than shop-bought sauce and can be tuned to taste.
Fire-roasted green mango, garlic and chilli make pora amer kaji, a cooling Chattogram favourite that is easy to prepare at home.
Low costs, few diseases and good weather gave char farmers in Sherpur a bumper crop of hybrid Debgiri peas, and the DAE expects the area to grow.
Around 50 big monitor lizards have lived for two decades by a canal next to Sadarpur's upazila market, eating refuse and living peacefully alongside people.
Chapainawabganj, known for mangoes, has its first commercial dried pineapple production, made with temperature-controlled dryers by entrepreneur Ismail Khan Shamim.
