Brown planthopper is attacking this season's aman paddy in Mirsarai, Chattogram, and farmers accuse sub-assistant agriculture officers of not visiting the fields, a charge the officials deny.
A farmer in Raninagar, Naogaon, has succeeded in growing summer tomatoes by grafting them onto thorny wild brinjal plants, selling them at Tk 110 a kg wholesale.
A schoolboy caught a venomous Russell's viper, locally called chandraboda, in Dhamoirhat, Naogaon, and handed it to forest officials.
Sherpur has had a high yield of winter vegetables, but heavy supply means farmers are not getting the prices they expected, and retail prices are starting to fall.
BRRI scientists have developed a low-cost seed sowing machine that fills a seedling tray in one second, letting one worker sow 14,400 trays a day for rice transplanters.
A deer has died at the forest department's eco-park in Tetulia, Panchagarh, after two others died there some time ago, leaving only two deer.
More than 400 farmers in Nijpat union of Jaintiapur, Sylhet, who once worked in stone quarries, have become self-reliant growing early vegetables.
A feature on how ants farm, fight and, in the case of Polyergus ants, raid Formica colonies, kill their queens and take over their workers.
Young agricultural entrepreneur Hasibul Hasan Ronty has had a bumper yield of black rice on about two bigha in Faridpur, and the DAE plans to keep his crop as seed for other farmers.
Early varieties of aman paddy have started reaching markets in Dinajpur, and farmers are happy with both the yield and the prices.
Jahangirnagar University will hold its annual butterfly fair on 2 December to raise awareness of butterfly conservation.
Harvesting of early aman varieties has begun in Gaibandha, and farmers are pleased with the yield but worried that higher production costs will leave them without a fair price.
Government food grain stocks are higher than at the same time in the past two years, yet rice prices are at their peak.
