CropsAt the height of potato planting in December 2024, farmers in Rajshahi said dealers were charging up to Tk 450 a sack above the government price, citing low allocations, while good seed was scarce. The DAE said it would act at once on any complaint.
A Sitakunda farmer's crop of large BARI-12 brinjals, shaped like bottle gourds, is drawing curious crowds and puzzling buyers.
Mill owners in Kushtia allege a syndicate with food department officials has secured rice allocations in the names of mills that are closed or no longer exist.
The food ministry has put one official in charge of monitoring paddy and rice procurement in each of the country's eight divisions this Aman season.
Heavy rain has cut Ishwardi's early bean crop to its lowest in a decade, but high prices have left farmers better off than in other years.
Encouraged by good prices, farmers across Faridpur's nine upazilas are planting onions on a record area this season.
A Titumir College student from Bhola has spent years campaigning for the environment, leading climate strikes and volunteering in disaster relief.
Every morning, flocks of birds descend on a Kurigram man's yard for ten minutes to eat the food he scatters for them.
A husband-and-wife orange orchard on flat land in Akkelpur, Joypurhat, is bearing heavily for the first time, drawing visitors and new growers.
Only two farmers are still growing crops in Ward 2 of Narayanganj City Corporation, a densely populated area of about 80,000 people where buildings have swallowed the farmland.
After sugarcane, the Barishal Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences has grown fragrant Kalijira rice in more than 500 plastic bottles on its roof.
A bumper Aman rice crop in Lalmonirhat's five upazilas has brought the Nabanna harvest festival to farm households, though farmers complain of rising input costs.
BNP leaders and activists are harvesting paddy for poor farmers in Mongla free of charge, under a volunteer programme launched at Chandpai on 30 November.
