Environment Minister Md Shahab Uddin called on farmers to lead efforts to protect the country's hills, forests and waterbodies as free aus seed and fertiliser were distributed in Moulvibazar.
Red amaranth seed production has changed the fortunes of many farmers in Chuadanga's Jibannagar upazila, where this season's crop is expected to earn Tk 8.53 crore.
Farmers in Kalapara, Patuakhali, have succeeded in growing potatoes without ploughing their land, a method that saves money, fertiliser and irrigation.
Md Shah Ali of Homna in Cumilla has built what officials call the district's first peacock farm, selling birds worth Tk 22 lakh and keeping 90 more.
Khulna University agrotechnology student Md. Sohel Rana has grown coloured capsicum successfully in low light using mulching sheets, harvesting 700 to 900 grams per plant.
Vegetable farmers selling at Rajshahi's Khorkhori wholesale market are denied fair prices while middlemen take the bulk of the profit as the same produce sells for much more in city markets.
Samsul Haque, a farmer in Muradnagar, Cumilla, has grown broccoli commercially on 55 decimals after a successful trial, and hopes to profit by more than a lakh taka.
After a long spell working in Malaysia, Mahabubur Rahman of Subarnakhali village in Jashore's Sharsha upazila has turned his fortunes around with a layer chicken farm.
New-season drumsticks are selling at up to Tk 400 a kg in Khulna after rain and wind cut the crop.
A pigeon farmer in Chatmohar, Pabna, alleges 250 of his birds died after eating poison-laced grass seed on a neighbour's land.
The Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation has trialled 20 new potato varieties suited to export and industry in Kushtia, with yields about double conventional varieties.
A Dhaka South City Corporation mobile court seized fish and chickens in drives against a makeshift market in Dhanmondi and footpath encroachers in Khilgaon.
The three-day National Vegetable Fair 2022 at the Krishibid Institution Bangladesh in Farmgate has ended with sales of about Tk 31.47 lakh.
