Herds of wild elephants that came down from India have been raiding border villages in Durgapur, Netrokona, destroying homes, crops and stored paddy and killing a farmer.
Migratory birds have made the 0.83-acre Derka pond in Thakurgaon Sadar their winter home for the first time, delighting villagers and visitors.
Egg, chicken and vegetable prices fell in Khulna's markets over the past week, but fish became dearer as supply dropped, while rice, oil and sugar stayed high.
Government data show Bangladesh's vegetable area has shrunk this Rabi season as farmers, burned by low vegetable prices and worried about food shortages, switch to paddy and maize.
Delwar Hossain, who turned to fruit farming in Mirzapur, Tangail, after his businesses failed, has sold Tk 22 lakh of fruit in two years and now has a good China orange harvest.
Farmers in Ishwardi have had a bumper early carrot crop, but higher seed and fertiliser costs and imported carrots mean they are making little profit.
Farmers in Jhalakathi, where women work the fields alongside men, are busy planting and tending winter vegetables grown commercially for markets in the district and beyond.
Fifty-two pigeons died in a Natore Sadar village after eating wheat seed that a farmer had mixed with poison to keep birds away.
Aman planted late in Dakop, Khulna, because of a lack of rain has produced a bumper crop, and farmers are preparing to harvest within days.
Farmers in Ishwardi, Pabna, have had a good Aman crop but say low paddy prices and higher costs leave them with no profit.
A venomous Russell's viper found in a mustard field in Biral upazila, Dinajpur, has been rescued and handed over to the Rajshahi Snake Rescue Team.
Hunger has driven Charmugaria's monkeys into Madaripur town, and although government feeding resumed on 27 October, the animals have not returned home.
Low yields have pushed farmers in Mirsarai, Chattogram, away from the aromatic Kalojira paddy towards high-yielding hybrid varieties.
