The Bangladesh Sugarcrop Research Institute has released the Philippine black sugarcane as BSRI Akh 49; Bashundhara Agro Chemical Industries' research farm at Kaliakair has grown it experimentally on 20 decimals since January 2025 with a new planting method, while Gazipur's cane area stands at 1,603
A dead whale washed up at Patharghata in Barguna, only about 45 km from the Swatch of No Ground, soon after dolphin carcasses appeared at Kuakata, raising fears about the health of the Bay of Bengal.
Easy to keep in low light, the peace lily has become a favourite of indoor gardeners; NASA's clean air research found it removes benzene and formaldehyde from indoor air.
Md Ibrahim of Magura, who discovered dragon fruit farming through Facebook and YouTube videos during the Covid lockdown, now has a profitable 75-decimal orchard that is inspiring local young people.
The blue macaw behind the animated film Rio, declared extinct in the wild in 2019, was released back into Brazil's Caatinga from 2022, and a released pair hatched chicks in 2023.
Sudden erosion at Purba Badurtala in Jhalokati on Sunday swallowed about 100 shatak of land; with the embankment gone, farmers fear tidal water in their aman fields and the Badurtala primary school is at risk.
Geospatial AI firm AlphaGeo ranked 72 major cities on their capacity to absorb climate hazards; Chicago tops the list, while Ahmedabad, Hyderabad and Multan lead the bottom ten, where South Asian cities face heavy flood and monsoon risk with little preparation.
At a seminar on shaping agriculture and agribusiness education for climate resilience, Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Md Rafiqul Islam Sarder called for technology to be built into research, while coordinator Prof Dr Mohammad Jahangir Alam set out innovation clusters at five universities, curriculum modern
An order signed on 10 September by deputy secretary Md Maksudul Islam sets up the room in the ministry's Room 528 under the additional secretary for fertiliser management and inputs; two dealers' complaints had been logged by 2 pm on Sunday, joint secretary Akhtarunnahar said.
The One Child One Tree programme, part of a government plan to plant 25 crore saplings, was launched at a school in Patiya, Chattogram, where 500 saplings were given to students.
Meeting Ministry of Agriculture officials at the Secretariat, Prime Minister Tarique Rahman ordered effective steps to grow at home what Bangladesh can grow; the ministry reported mustard output up from 824,000 to 1.541 million tonnes in three years, 1,090 crop varieties, 2,617 solar irrigation syst
Speaking at the Secretariat after Prime Minister Tarique Rahman visited the ministry, Md Amin Ur Rashid said monitoring committees now sit in nearly every upazila and district, a ship arrives every week, the reserve is raised to 15 lakh tonnes before peak season and the situation will settle within
In Chuadanga's Alamdanga upazila, locals intercepted a truck moving TSP fertiliser allocated from a BADC godown without valid papers; police have taken the fertiliser, the truck and a grocery trader into custody.
