Environment
15,000 saplings and palm seeds in 18 years: one man's joy in planting trees
Since 2008 Zobayer Ahmed Khan Opu has planted about 15,000 saplings and palm seeds across Tangail, Gazipur, Dhaka, Dinajpur, Sylhet and Sunamganj.
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Bangladesh
Environment
Erosion swallows a Shahjadpur village, 350 of Dhitpur's 500 homes gone
Two years after Barpakhia village vanished into the river in Shahjadpur, Sirajganj, erosion is eating Dhitpur and Kurshi, and many families say they have had no government help.
Crops
Sirajganj workshop urges zinc-rich rice in state food programmes
Officials in Sirajganj pressed for zinc-biofortified rice in social safety-net and school feeding schemes, with seed and training planned for 3,600 farmers this boro season.
Environment146 elephants died in nine years in Bangladesh, from an estimated 268 in 2016
Shrinking habitat and corridors, road building, killing, trafficking and poaching have killed 146 elephants in Bangladesh over nine years; the country had an estimated 268 elephants in 2016, Dhaka Tribune reports.
Health
One in eight young Bangladeshis has high blood pressure, experts urge budget for drugs
A World Heart Day webinar heard that 52 per cent of about 283,800 heart-disease deaths in Bangladesh in 2024 were linked to hypertension, while NCDs get just 4.2 per cent of the health budget.
FisheriesKhulna farmer Razia Khatun earns more from one pond with fish, prawns and vegetables
A 24-year-old farmer in Khulna made a profit of Tk 80,214 in one season from a 15-decimal pond using integrated multi-trophic aquaculture, and now trains other farmers, WorldFish reports.
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Pictures: Sundarbans nipa palm fruit reaches Dhaka at Tk 10 apiece
Fruit of the golpata, the nipa palm of the Sundarbans, brought from the Khulna region is sold from a van in Dhaka's Jurain at Tk 10 each.
Environment50 metres of Kopotakkho embankment collapse in Ashashuni; villagers fight the breach
About 50 metres of the Kopotakkho River embankment has collapsed at Sripur-Kurikahunia in Pratapnagar union, Ashashuni, Satkhira; villagers are shoring it up with sand and earth as fish enclosures and crops face flooding.
OpinionOpinion: banning paraquat and glyphosate is a big step towards safe farming
Welcoming the pesticide technical advisory committee's decision to stop registration, import and licence renewal of paraquat and glyphosate, Islamic scholar and agri-entrepreneur Minhaj Uddin Attar argues that strict enforcement and safe alternatives for farmers must follow.
Health
Bagatipara's 50-bed hospital runs on 31-bed staff; X-rays halted six weeks
Bagatipara Upazila Health Complex in Natore has 50-bed facilities but staff for 31 beds; X-rays have stopped for six weeks for want of film, two pathology workers handle all tests amid chemical shortages, and a new generator sits idle without fuel funds.
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Blue skies, kash flowers and green paddy: autumn in the Sylhet hills
In the border villages of Gowainghat and Companiganj in Sylhet, autumn has dressed the land in blue sky, white kash flowers and green rice fields.
FisheriesRabnabad channel dredging is changing hilsa routes and building shoals, researchers fear
Researchers say silt and submerged shoals building up in upstream rivers after dredging of the Rabnabad channel for Payra port are blocking hilsa migration; the catch has fallen year after year since the 2022-23 record.
Crops
Jamuna erosion swallows 50 bighas of farmland in Kazipur; villagers blame sand mining
Late-monsoon erosion by the Jamuna has taken at least 50 bighas of cropland in Kazipur, Sirajganj, about 20 bighas of triple-crop land in a single week; villagers blame illegal sand extraction and the lack of permanent bank protection.