FruitsSummer markets fill with mango, jamun, lychee, jackfruit and watermelon. The World Health Organization advises eating fresh fruit in season, while fruit ripened early with calcium carbide carries health risks.
Jamun is full of minerals and boosts immunity, but nutritionists warn that eating it the wrong way, or with the wrong foods, can upset the stomach.
One of Bangladesh's finest mangoes carries the odd name Langra, meaning lame, and the story usually told links it to a fakir with a limp some 200 years ago.
The kadam, whose flowers are called the messenger of the rains, is best planted in the monsoon, especially in Asharh, and needs fertile loam, organic fertiliser and regular care.
The monsoon's moisture, soft soil, lower temperatures and free irrigation help young trees take root and grow fast, making it the right time to plant.
The black drongo, known in Bengali as finge, is a small, plain bird bold enough to chase off raptors and a friend to farmers for the pests it eats, but its numbers are falling.
Mangoes are packed with vitamins, fibre and minerals that the writer says help energy, eyesight, digestion, sleep and the heart, but he warns against chemically ripened fruit.
The banana's journey from a hard, seedy wild fruit in South-east Asia to today's sweet seedless fruit was shaped by ancient farmers, and disease now threatens its future.
Pirojpur district Chhatra Dal held a tree-planting programme at Government Sohrawardi College to mark World Environment Day, as part of a central programme.
A single trawler netted 43 maunds of hilsa on the first day after the government's 58-day sea fishing ban ended.
Floodwater from upstream and days of rain destroyed crops in Kurigram's river basins, and char farmers are now trying to get back on their feet.
The forest department rescued a 10-foot python that had entered a chicken coop in a village next to the Sundarbans and released it into the forest.
Growing vegetables in the monsoon calls for well-drained land, good seed, pest control, careful watering and mulching to get a good harvest.
