Although government grain stocks are at a record high and Boro procurement beat its target, the government has decided to buy about two lakh tonnes more rice from mills, allegedly under pressure from millers and politicians.
In Bara Ajaldi village of Chandipasha union, Pakundia, he expanded after last year's profit and plans rice on the same plot once the melons are cut; the agriculture office says trellises, raised beds and mulching give a crop with little care and is handing out seed and fertiliser through demonstrati
The district's September allocation is almost the same as last year's, yet farmers queue for hours; ponds need 1,334 tonnes each of urea and TSP a month with no allocation of their own, and the whole TSP quota is only 1,045 tonnes.
White poa fish was being dyed red with a harmful chemical at Muladi port; the seized fish was buried on the bank of the Nayabhangani river and a trader was fined Tk 50,000.
The national hilsa task force has fixed the 2026 mother-hilsa conservation window: no catching, transporting, storing or trading of hilsa in rivers or at sea from 8 to 29 October, joint enforcement in the breeding grounds, and food support for fishermen who stay ashore.
Snake wine, spirit with a whole snake steeped in the bottle, began as a traditional Chinese medicine more than 2,000 years ago and is now a popular drink and status symbol across South-East Asia.
Twenty-two firms imported hilsa through the land port in July and August, 91.66 percent of it in August; in Jashore the foreign fish sells for about Tk 2,000 a kilo less than local hilsa, and officials want it labelled as Indian.
The distribution of 144 goats in Shariatpur is part of a livestock development project covering the river chars of seven districts from Manikganj to Shariatpur, aimed at filling gaps in breeds, feed, treatment and technical support.
Leftover boiled eggs are safe if cooled quickly, refrigerated within two hours below 4C and eaten within seven days, but they should not be left out like raw eggs or frozen.
The National Consumer Rights Protection Directorate fined two traders at Chandpur's Boro Station fish landing Tk 6,000 for keeping rotten hilsa for sale, and two hotels Tk 4,000 for having no price lists.
WorldFish tested seven integrated multi-trophic aquaculture models with 131 farmers in Khulna and Cox's Bazar between June 2025 and March 2026; the best pond model returned 181 per cent on investment, but seed and market gaps remain.
The government housing at Chapulia in Faridpur was built in 2011-12 about a kilometre from the river; erosion that began in 2021 has taken it, and families now living in the open want a permanent embankment and resettlement.
Palm seeds have been planted along both sides of rural roads in Jhenaidah, at the initiative of award-winning environmental activist Zahir Raihan, to protect nature and farmers from lightning.
