Letting Boro rice fields dry periodically using the Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD) method boosts tillers and yields, saves 20 to 30 percent of irrigation water and cuts methane.
A medicinal garden at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University in Dhaka holds some 41 species of healing plants for teaching and research.
Satkhira's coastal farmers are sowing boro early and using salt-tolerant varieties to beat rising salinity, but higher input costs have them worried.
Halwa made from protein-rich chana dal is a tasty, homely sweet to serve guests on Shab-e-Barat.
Demand for latakasturi plants has risen sharply in Chapainawabganj, where sugarcane growers use them to clean cane juice while making jaggery.
Pabda fish cooked with sour-sweet jujube in a lightly spiced gravy brings something new to the kitchen in jujube season.
With pesticides, wetland traps and habitat loss pushing birds into crisis, farmers can help through organic farming, pest management and protecting wetlands and trees.
Mango trees in Dinajpur have blossomed early in the Magh cold, raising hopes of a bumper crop but also fears that dense fog will rot the blossoms.
After a few warmer days, dense fog and a biting wind returned to Dinajpur, worrying farmers about boro seedbeds and potato fields.
A recipe for spicy duck bhuna cooked with ground spices and coconut milk, a favourite for a Bengali holiday lunch.
A recipe for chingri polao, fragrant rice cooked with spiced prawns, for a family meal on a day off.
Farmers in Narayanganj's Araihazar and Rupganj upazilas have returned to growing sugarcane and making traditional jaggery, and say it pays.
Local farmers in Gobindaganj, Gaibandha, are growing winter vegetables along about 4 km of the Dhaka-Rangpur highway divider.
