Saidul Islam's four-bigha squash field on a Dharla river char in Kurigram was ruined by mosaic disease after heavy rain, and he says the agriculture department has offered no help.
Encouraged by award-winning farmer Akmal Hossain, poultry farmers in Ishwardi and across Pabna are switching to colour bird chickens, which they say cost less to raise and earn more.
A weekly farmers' market where ten DAE-vetted safe growers from Bhakurta, Savar, will sell their produce directly to consumers opened in Dhaka on 14 October.
Expanding high-yielding rice varieties could lift Bangladesh's rice output by about 33.5 lakh tonnes by 2024-25, a workshop in Dhaka organised by BRRI and the DAE was told.
Bottle gourd growers on the chars of Kurigram's 16 rivers expect a profitable season as good prices and better weather ease earlier fears over the crop.
The agriculture office in Bhairab, Kishoreganj, is using light traps in Aman rice fields to identify harmful and beneficial insects so farmers apply pesticides only when needed.
A two-year-old wild elephant calf died of illness in Chakaria, Cox's Bazar, and was buried after a post-mortem on 9 October.
A rare Cantor's kukri snake was rescued from a grocery shop in Sreemangal, Moulvibazar, on 9 October and handed to the Forest Department.
Fahim Ferdous, a visually impaired young man in Kurigram, has grown one cow into a herd of six worth about Tk 3 lakh and now supports his family.
Forest officials rescued an endangered gibbon from a bus in Lohagara, Chattogram, and a mobile court sentenced two members of a wildlife trafficking ring to a year in jail.
A langur that rode on the roof of a tourist bus from Jashore to Mongla drew crowds at the port's Picnic Corner, and forest officials are arranging to return it home.
Aman farmers in Moulvibazar say bacterial leaf blight is not responding to pesticide and fertiliser, while agriculture officials say rice on about 5,000 hectares has reddened for lack of rain and nutrients.
Opening a bonsai exhibition in Dhaka, Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni urged everyone to plant at least one tree to help restore the rhythm of the seasons lost to climate change.
