Heavy use of chemical fertiliser and pesticides is eroding soil fertility in Bangladesh, and wider use of organic fertiliser is presented as a key to sustainable, safe food production.
Winter has not yet arrived in Dhaka, but Karwan Bazar is already filled with cauliflower, cabbage, beans, radish, mustard greens, olives and water chestnuts.
Producing good, safe food cannot be left to farmers alone; it needs government, researchers, private enterprise and consumers to work together.
Farmers across Magura are busy threshing after a bumper aman paddy crop, which they credit to heavy rain this season.
Hundreds of floating duck farms along Kishoreganj's rivers and haors now supply about a quarter of the country's duck eggs, but farmers say they need better veterinary support and market links.
A college professor in Barishal's Babuganj upazila has built a papaya orchard with a fish pond that he says earns him Tk 10 lakh a year after costs.
Rain and gusty wind from a low-pressure system in the Bay of Bengal have flattened ripe and half-ripe aman paddy on thousands of hectares in Lalmonirhat.
Water chestnut farming is spreading in Sherpur because it grows on waterlogged and fallow land and returns a good profit at low cost.
Bagerhat's betel nut growers have had a bumper crop this year but are struggling as prices have fallen by Tk 150 to 300 a kuri.
A farmer in Mirsharai, Chattogram, has made about Tk 1 lakh profit growing summer watermelon on 50 decimals with mulching and organic methods.
Betel leaf growers in Barguna have had a good harvest but say prices are so far below costs that they are sinking under NGO loans.
Farmers in Rajbari are busy planting murikata onion and say rising costs mean the price must be at least Tk 2,000 a maund at harvest.
Known for guava, Pirojpur now also leads Barishal division in amra, with busy wholesale markets in Nesarabad and farmers pleased with prices despite a smaller crop.
