Bangladesh's public grain stocks have fallen to just over 12 lakh tonnes, and the government is importing 16 lakh tonnes of rice and wheat while pressing millers to deliver contracted aman rice.
Farmer Faridul Alam (44) was killed by elephants in Lama, Bandarban, while a pregnant elephant died after touching an electrified wire laid to protect crops.
A headmaster in Hatibandha, Lalmonirhat, has grown a China orange garden on flat land that now draws visitors from surrounding upazilas.
The theft of 30 shallow machines from fields in Gurudaspur, Natore, has left more than 100 farmers unsure how to irrigate winter crops on 300 bighas.
Farmers in Jashore's Sharsha-Benapole are covering boro seedbeds with polythene to protect them from cold injury as temperatures fall and fog thickens.
Floods and heavy rain left fields in Lakshmipur under water, so aman was grown on well under half the target area this year.
With the cold season under way, sap collectors on the Patuakhali coast have begun tapping date palms for the juice, molasses and pitha that define a Bengal winter.
A Bangladesh Agricultural University plant breeder says genetically modified Bt brinjal resists shoot and fruit borer, reduces pesticide use and needs no special care.
Jasmine Ara's 12-acre nursery beside the Old Brahmaputra in Gauripur holds more than 4 lakh seedlings of 300 species and employs 35 workers.
Supermarket chain Shwapno bought 10,000 cauliflowers from Meherpur farmers who could not recover transport and labour costs as prices fell.
As cold and fog intensify, farmers fear cold injury to Boro seedbeds and late blight in potatoes, and agriculture officials set out steps to protect the crops.
Hit by Tk 446 crore in farm losses from August's flood, Feni farmers have sharply expanded mustard cultivation in hope of recovering.
At least 141 farmers in Mymensingh Sadar who grew BINA dhan17 and BINA dhan11 with free BINA seed saw most of their paddy turn to chaff.
