Reporters in Thakurgaon found hundreds of sacks of government fertiliser in open-market shops and alerted officials, who did not come even after a four-hour wait.
Avian influenza and goatpox vaccines developed by the Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute (BLRI) have been handed over for commercial production and delivery to farmers.
The government has leased three long-closed state-owned jute mills to Pran-RFL Group and Hamko Group to restart them under private management.
Pran-RFL Group will invest Tk 750 crore in two closed state-owned jute mills in Khulna and Sirajganj that it has leased for 30 years.
Adding a cashew paste to egg bhuna gives the familiar dish a richer, more festive flavour.
Agreements have been signed leasing three closed state jute mills in Khulna and Sirajganj to private companies, two of them to Pran-RFL Group.
Farmers and workers across Magura are busy stripping retted jute, with labourers earning one bundle of jute sticks for every two bundles they strip.
CropsUSDA's Plant Protection and Quarantine programme and three south-eastern states are stepping up trapping and surveys after the invasive hornet, first found in Georgia in 2023, was confirmed in North Carolina.
The agriculture ministry has ordered implementation of a revised fertiliser dealer policy that sets at least nine dealers per upazila and replaces separate BCIC and BADC dealerships with a single system.
A syndicate in Kurigram's Nageshwari allegedly used the names of poor and landless people to sell paddy to government stores, depriving genuine farmers.
Beneficiaries in Chuadanga allege that poor-quality saplings and bamboo stakes were supplied under the government's priority tree-planting project at inflated prices.
With wild fish stocks shrinking, fish and shrimp farming is proving more profitable than crop farming for Bangladeshi farmers, and the country ranks fifth in the world in aquaculture.
A roadside shop at Charatala bazar in Jhenaidah's Harinakunda sells vegetables, tea and paan round the clock with no seller, as customers serve themselves and leave money in a cash box.
