Fisheries
Two fishermen missing after a trawler sinks in the Bay of Bengal
The trawler FB Jannat-Junayed of Taltali, Barguna sank 25km off Kuakata; eleven of the thirteen fishermen aboard were rescued alive.
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Bangladesh
Opinion
The fertiliser crisis needs deeper scrutiny, not reassurance
The government says there is no fertiliser shortage, yet farmers are protesting and smuggling is reported at the border: that gap is the question.
Livestock
Bangladesh urges a shift of One Health from policy to practice at FAO
At the FAO headquarters in Rome, Bangladesh environment minister Abdul Awal Mintoo said One Health must move from paper policy to field action.
Crops
Court jails fifteen Sherpur fertiliser dealers over black-market sales
A Sherpur court has sent fifteen fertiliser dealers to jail over the alleged black-market sale of Tk 140 million worth of state-allocated fertiliser.
Crops
Only a third of Bangladesh seed reaches farmers through a tested system
Of an annual seed demand of about 1.3 million tonnes, only 30 per cent reaches Bangladeshi farmers through the formal, quality-controlled system.
Vegetables
Floodwater ruins vegetable plots on the Padma chars in Rajshahi
Vegetable plots on the chars of Pabna upazila in Rajshahi are under water, ruining crops before they could be harvested.
Crops
After fertiliser, diesel: a hard season for Bangladesh paddy growers
With diesel up from Tk 115 to Tk 135 a litre, irrigation and haulage costs are rising in the Aman season and casting doubt over the coming Boro crop.
Agribusiness
Lentil and edible oil imports climb sharply as Bangladesh tightens market watch
Commerce minister Khandaker Abdul Muktadir says market surveillance will be tightened year-round, as lentil and edible oil imports rise sharply.
Crops
Dredged river sand has kept Kamarkhanda farmland out of cultivation for two years
Sand dredged from the Fuljor river and dumped on farmland in Kamarkhanda, Sirajganj, has kept 15-20 bigha belonging to ten farmers out of production for nearly two years, with its removal stalled by a legal dispute.
Environment
25,000 acacias vanish from Garo hills social-forestry plot; 25 families lose Tk 40 lakh
Almost every tree of a plantation raised in 2017-18 at Daodhara-Katabari mouza in the Madhutila range of Nalitabari has been cut; the partners say the Forest Department could have stopped it, the range officer says he knew nothing, and the divisional forest officer has formed an inquiry committee.
Vegetables
Flooding and rain sink Munshiganj's Tk 20 crore vegetable-seedling trade as seedlings rot
The district DAE puts the August-December seedling trade on about 10 hectares at Panchasar at Tk 15-20 crore; with fields waterlogged, farmers cannot transplant and buyers have stopped coming, while heavy rain rots cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli, tomato, brinjal and chilli seedlings under their bamb
Crops
Manikganj soils lose fertility to excess fertiliser: 12 maunds now where 10 did in 2020
This aman and early-vegetable season Manikganj has 15,917 tonnes of urea, 5,470 of TSP, 12,201 of DAP and 7,202 of MOP allocated; sub-assistant agriculture officer Jesmin Jerin says organic matter has fallen below five per cent in many fields against the five to seven needed, and farmers are using m
Crops
Two-hour Pakundia haat sells Tk 60-70 lakh of betel leaf from 65 hectares of vines
At Pakundia municipal betel market in Kishoreganj, two hours of trading before sunrise on Saturdays and Wednesdays move Tk 60-70 lakh of leaf, topping Tk 1 crore a haat in winter; a good kuri (20 bira of 120 leaves) fetches Tk 4,000-4,500, and the upazila agriculture office counts about 65 hectares