Food security network KHANI Bangladesh demanded a minimum support price for farmers' crops and a price commission, presenting findings on the suicide of a Meherpur onion farmer.
A young man in Chandpur has succeeded in growing grapes commercially on 20 decimals of land, with 85 varieties from 18 countries in his collection.
Sureshwar Mallik of Dumuria, Khulna, who once ate soaked rice for lack of money, now grows safe vegetables year-round using modern techniques and has won national honours.
Chapainawabganj's mango growers, heirs to a centuries-old tradition, keep faith with the crop despite unseasonal storms and disease.
A Faridpur woman who started a rooftop garden with five fruit trees in 2019 now sells grafted saplings online to growers across the country.
Faridpur farmer Sahida Begum, a former housewife, grows onion seed on up to 100 acres, sold at least Tk 4 crore worth this year and pioneered hand pollination of onion seed.
Three civet cubs held by a household in Kamalganj, Moulvibazar, have been rescued and taken to a wildlife rescue centre in Lawachhara National Park.
Vegetable prices in Barishal have risen by Tk 5 to Tk 10 in a week, while fish and meat prices have been stable for two weeks.
Farmers in Sunamganj's haors fear losing a bumper boro crop to flash floods after a forecast of a week of heavy rain.
Pineapple farming is spreading on fallow hill land along Sherpur's border, with growers saying government support and protection from wild elephants could transform the area.
Potato farmers in Cumilla's Burichang are storing their bumper crop under tarpaulins in the open, with cold stores full and prices below production cost.
Students and researchers at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University have made nutritious pet food from invasive sucker fish, offering a way to control the fish.
A farm owner in Abhaynagar, Jashore, is harvesting his first Japanese Miyazaki mangoes from saplings imported from India in 2024.
