The Matlab Uttar upazila fisheries office recovered 250kg of jatka from a passenger launch in an overnight drive on the Meghna and distributed it to orphanages and the poor.
Hilsa prices at Chandpur's Boro Station fish landing have roughly tripled as supply falls, with a 1kg fish selling for Tk 4,000 to 4,500.
Supply failures, hoarding and high prices have left potato farmers short of balanced fertiliser, threatening tuber formation and yields, and both government and farmers have steps to take.
Snakes bit 353 people in Madaripur's five upazilas between January and December, eight of whom died, with Shibchar upazila the worst affected.
With cold-related illness rising in Sunamganj, the children's ward of the district hospital holds about twice as many patients as beds, and many are treated on the floor.
With about 70 percent of Bangladeshi farmers exposed to climate risk, index-based crop insurance using satellite, IoT and machine learning data could protect their finances.
Intern veterinarian Md Rajibul Islam sets out how to feed, house and watch over cattle, calves and pregnant cows in winter to keep them healthy and productive.
CropsAs winter set in early in December 2025, gachhis (sap collectors) in Chandpur's Matlab Uttar upazila were tapping date palms; the upazila agriculture office counted about 2,177 trees, most of them being tapped.
A six-year-old girl bitten by a snake in Savar died after her family took her to several hospitals that had no antivenom, before she was declared dead at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
A quick, simple duck curry recipe for winter, to serve with rice, khichuri, polao or rice-flour roti.
After years of trials, the Raikhali Hill Agricultural Research Station in Rangamati has harvested BARI Bottle Gourd-4, a heat-tolerant year-round variety, at scale.
Rose farming in Savar's Birulia has fallen from 200 to 110 hectares as housing projects take over land, and farmers and officials want the government to step in.
Migratory bird numbers in Rajshahi have fallen sharply this winter, and observers and researchers blame habitat destruction on the Padma chars, human disturbance and light pollution.
