Receiving a delegation from Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University at Bangabhaban, President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir called on agricultural universities and extension services to work together to make farmers aware.
Fishermen are landing more fish ahead of the breeding-season ban and prices are down Tk 200-500 a kilo, yet stalls stood almost empty on Wednesday as shoppers worried about telling Padma hilsa from imported look-alikes.
Bangladesh grows 18-20 lakh tonnes of aromatic rice a year by DAE's count; millers and restaurateurs blame hoarding and a one-off export approval of 61,000 tonnes; on 8 September the commerce ministry halved the permitted export quantity after 129 firms shipped 2,419 tonnes between 13 May and 30 Aug
Meeting staff of the Bangladesh Food Safety Authority, Food Minister Afroza Khanam said the eight divisional mobile labs are not enough and called for faster testing, closer monitoring and wider public awareness.
The national task force on hilsa fixed the breeding-season ban on Tuesday; fishermen who stay ashore will get VGF food aid, and surveillance in Barishal, Chandpur and Bhola and the removal of illegal nets will be stepped up.
Geospatial AI firm AlphaGeo ranked 72 major cities on their capacity to absorb climate hazards; Chicago tops the list, while Ahmedabad, Hyderabad and Multan lead the bottom ten, where South Asian cities face heavy flood and monsoon risk with little preparation.
An order signed on 10 September by deputy secretary Md Maksudul Islam sets up the room in the ministry's Room 528 under the additional secretary for fertiliser management and inputs; two dealers' complaints had been logged by 2 pm on Sunday, joint secretary Akhtarunnahar said.
Speaking at the Secretariat after Prime Minister Tarique Rahman visited the ministry, Md Amin Ur Rashid said monitoring committees now sit in nearly every upazila and district, a ship arrives every week, the reserve is raised to 15 lakh tonnes before peak season and the situation will settle within
N-FertiSmart uses remote sensing to recommend nitrogen field by field, bringing the rate down from about 174kg to 135.7kg a hectare.
Answering a written question from Chuadanga-2 member Md Ruhul Amin on 6 September, Finance Minister Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury said every farmer who had borrowed up to Tk 10,000 had been covered by July 2026, in every upazila of the country.
Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr Md Abdul Latif hoisted the flags, released balloons and doves and led the procession on Friday, 11 September; students dressed as farmers, fishers and veterinarians presented Bangladesh's farming culture, and a discussion recalled Sher-e-Bangla A K Fazlul Huq.
At the Taltola and Agargaon markets on Friday, brinjal sold for Tk 100-140, tomato Tk 120-140 and bitter gourd Tk 60-80 a kilo; broiler eased Tk 10 to Tk 180, and a one-kilogram hilsa cost Tk 2,700-2,800.
The vice-chancellors of the cluster universities took the decision in principle at a meeting on 7 September; application rules, eligibility, seats, schedule, marks distribution and centres are to be announced in due course.
A progress report sent to the Prime Minister's Office on 16 August says most of the 35 actions in the first 180-day programme were fully delivered, from cancelling leases under the 'nets to the fisher, water to the fisher' policy to 100 salt- and drought-tolerant fish farms and insurance for 3,600 a
EnvironmentOn 2 July 2026 the Forest Department's Wildlife Crime Control Unit recovered 1,104 exotic animals, among them tarantulas, a Mexican black kingsnake, corn snakes and more than a thousand turtles, from rooftop aquariums in Rupnagar, Dhaka.
Researchers say albino is not a buffalo breed but a genetic trait caused by a lack of melanin, which can appear rarely in any breed.
AgribusinessIn May 2026 the Bangladesh Restaurant Owners' Association asked to import beef to bring prices down, but the livestock ministry said more than 2.5 million animals are left over after the Eid sacrifice and imports are not needed.
Rooftop farmingIn Boxnagar, Demra, Shah Alam's 2,200 sq ft rooftop grows more than a hundred kinds of fruit, vegetables and ornamentals, with hydroponics and a pigeon loft.
Rooftop farmingOn a seven-storey building in Mirpur, retired navy officer Ziaul Ahsan's three-tier rooftop farm of more than 300 plants meets almost all his family's vegetable needs.
Rooftop farmingIn Hatirjheel, Dhaka, a doctor couple grows a wide range of crops organically on a 1,500 sq ft roof, using every inch and tower systems.
Rooftop farmingIn Nakhalpara, Dhaka, Kohinur Akter grows vegetables in stacked plastic crates on a 2,700 sq ft roof and keeps pigeons to supply organic manure.
Rooftop farmingAfter long years abroad, Hafsa Alam and Shah Alam Swapan have built a planned rooftop farm beside the Mohakhali flyover in Dhaka that meets much of their vegetable needs.
Rooftop farmingIn Uttara, a couple who have loved plants for 25 years persuaded all ten families in their apartment building to share a rooftop farm.
Rooftop farmingIn Uttara, a couple started a 3,000 sq ft rooftop farm to introduce their children to soil and crops, and it has inspired neighbours to follow.
VideoIn Mohammadpur, Dhaka, former Eden College professor Asfia Sabina has tended a neat, productive 2,700 sq ft rooftop farm since 2017.
As Channel i enters its twenty-third year, Shykh Seraj reflects on a momentous 2021 and the media's work through the pandemic.
After RAS, trials of biofloc fish farming have begun in Bangladesh, with two young computer engineers in Uttara, Dhaka, turning full-time to the technology.
Retired Brigadier Azizul Haque has turned a 2,300 sq ft roof in Mohakhali DOHS into an orchard of common and rare fruits since 2013.
OpinionShykh Seraj meets a freedom fighter who lost his sight and left hand in 1971 and still has not received the allotment papers for his house.
FisheriesBangladesh's first hospital for pets, set up by CVASU at Purbachal in Dhaka, opens on 27 October.
Retired army officer Abdul Hannan Sharif's rooftop farm in Mirpur DOHS supplies all his family's vegetables and salad during Ramadan.
After three decades of commercial flower farming, growers in Savar say land is being lost to non-farm uses while artificial flowers undercut them.
In Kalyanpur, a young couple has spent eight years turning their apartment roof into a planned green garden that feeds the family and the mind.
In Gulshan-2, businessman Nazimuddin and his wife Shefali Begum have turned a 25-katha roof into a forest-like garden over ten years.
Retired insurance officer A A Kamruzzaman's two rose plants in 2003 grew into a two-level rooftop farm in Gulshan-1 with about a hundred species.
