At events across Bangladesh, speakers demanded state recognition for women farmers, who make up more than 10.5 million of the country's 25.6 million farm workers.
Women working in agriculture must get state recognition as farmers, and every government programme to help farmers must include a quota for women.
Jagadish Chandra Bose, whose work spanned physics and plant science, came seventh in BBC Bangla's 2004 listeners' poll of the greatest Bengali of all time.
FruitsOn 10 March 2020 ECNEC approved the second revision of the Department of Agricultural Extension's project to improve nutrition through year-round fruit production, at a cost of Tk 161.05 crore.
AgribusinessIn March 2020 the Ministry of Agriculture took up a Tk 230.80 crore project to build a flower research centre on 20 hectares at Jhikargachha in Jashore. Sarabangla reported that the project was then going through approval.
Country quotas decide how many Muslims can perform Hajj each year, and several Muslim-majority countries are pressing Saudi Arabia for more places.
Flocks of migratory birds have arrived on the Karatoya river in Tarash upazila, and locals say they are guarding them from hunters.
About 500 ducks belonging to a farmer in Moulvibazar's Hakaluki Haor died after eating poison bait laid by a gang of migratory bird poachers.
Female students have overtaken male students in admissions to Bangladesh's seven public agricultural universities for the first time.
A two-day waterbird census found 40,126 birds of 53 species in Hakaluki Haor, including six threatened species, though poisoned birds were also found.
The government has finalised the Pet Bird Management Rules 2020, requiring licences for pet bird farms, pet shops and trade, with jail or fines for violators.
Fewer migratory birds have reached Baikka Beel in Hail Haor this winter, blamed on lost aquatic vegetation, a mild winter and poaching, though more species have been recorded.
EnvironmentJahangirnagar University's zoology department was to hold its annual Bird Fair 2020 on Friday 24 January in front of the Zahir Raihan Auditorium, with birdwatching, contests and exhibitions to build public support for bird conservation.
