A government intelligence agency report says fertiliser transport contractors and dealers are hoarding stocks to create an artificial shortage and overcharge farmers, even though warehouses hold enough for three months.
Rising costs and falling prices are pushing betel leaf growers in Ulipur, Kurigram, to abandon a traditional crop for other farming.
Villagers in Shailkupa, Jhenaidah, beat to death a fishing cat cub that had been injured by a combine harvester cutting paddy.
Tangail's jute area shrank this year, but good weather, better seed and higher prices have left farmers happy with a bumper harvest.
The new tall, water-tolerant jute variety Sabuj Sona is paying off for farmers in Faridpur, though seed is scarce.
Unused dykes of brackish-water fish enclosures in Debhata, Satkhira, are now growing off-season watermelon that sells for Tk 70-80 a kg.
Abdul Motaleb brought date seeds home from Saudi Arabia in 2001; today his Bhaluka orchard and sapling trade earn more than Tk 50 lakh a year.
Farmers in Chaugachha, Jashore, say a half-kilometre drain would end the waterlogging that has sunk about 4,000 bighas of crops.
Fifty-three years after independence, a shortage of processing plants, cold storage and modern rice mills still keeps Bangladesh's farmers from fair prices.
Fertiliser is piling up in Chuadanga's government stores while farmers pay retail shops up to double the official price during the Aus season.
The Agriculture Information Service says bottle gourd can be sown in Bhadra, in pits on higher ground with set doses of manure and fertiliser.
The fruit of the golpata palm, which grows untended in coastal salt water, is now sold to visitors outside the historic Sixty Dome Mosque in Bagerhat.
A BARCIK field survey in Shyamnagar found that careless pesticide use is making farmers ill, killing livestock and fish, and costing families up to about a lakh taka in treatment.
