Betel nut saplings planted beside a village road in Burichang, Cumilla, under the Prime Minister's tree-planting programme were allegedly killed with pesticide, and a complaint has been filed with police.
Officials from Kisumu, Siaya, Busia and Vihiga counties reviewed fertiliser-recommendation and irrigation-advisory tools with national ministries and researchers, feeding into two policy briefs under the iSPARK project.
Pakistan's biofortified zinc wheat programme grew from 64,000 hectares in 2019 to more than 3.1 million in 2023, reaching 3.3 million farming households, after the province of Punjab paid for breeder seed and cleared the certification bottleneck.
The Status of the World's Soil Resources 2026 finds erosion management poor or very poor in 81 percent of assessments, with only about 10 percent of regions reporting improvement since 2015.
Government and World Bank data show untreated industrial effluent, sewage and solid waste are severely polluting Bangladesh's rivers, above all around Dhaka, writes Moazzem Hossain Tipu.
At the start of the aman season farmers in Rajshahi, Jhenaidah and Kurigram are paying above the fixed price because dealers have no fertiliser, while the government insists 1.365 million tonnes are in stock; agricultural economists say the two accounts cannot both be true.
The Bangladesh Wildlife Service Foundation rescued a python from a paddy field in Sreemangal, Moulvibazar, after it frightened workers harvesting Aus rice.
The Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution has ordered 10 products, including Bombay Sweets spice mixes and Baghabari ghee, withdrawn after they failed laboratory tests against the Bangladesh Standard.
Insensitivity, ignorance and rumour are pushing the gandhagokul, a shy civet that protects crops and spreads forest seeds, into serious danger in Bangladesh.
The Ministry of Agriculture has told fertiliser dealers not to delay lifting their allocations and warned of legal action against anyone trying to create a crisis.
TerraBlaster, which uses a laser sensing technique first flown on the Mars rover to read nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and pH in the soil as a tractor moves, has raised a $12.5 million seed round led by Ulu Ventures ahead of commercial sales in 2027.
Tien Thuan cooperative in Can Tho now makes 12 to 15 tonnes of organic fertiliser a month and grows mushrooms on the straw it used to burn, adding USD 50 to 70 a hectare over burning or selling the loose material.
Ikhteyar Uddin Ahmed Munna gave up a BCS education cadre post and a bank job to build MM Agro, an integrated fish, poultry, cattle and vermicompost farm in his Kishoreganj village.
