Crops
She Went to Buy Jujubes in Another's Orchard and Became an Entrepreneur
A housewife in Patuakhali Sadar, inspired by a neighbouring village's orchard, has become self-reliant by growing jujubes (boroi) on fallow riverside land.
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Environment
Fruits
Jujube Farming Instead of Mango Is Changing Chapainawabganj's Economy
Losses on mango are pushing hundreds of farmers in Chapainawabganj, the country's best-known mango district, towards jujube as a cheaper and quicker-paying crop.
Fisheries
Buragauranga: A River Whose Currents Sustain the Lives Along Its Banks
The Buragauranga river in coastal Patuakhali is the centre of livelihoods, farming and culture for people along its banks, but it now faces erosion, encroachment and silting.
Crops
Polynet House Seedlings Are Changing Farming in Akkelpur
A polynet house in Akkelpur, Joypurhat, is producing quality vegetable and flower seedlings in cocopeat under controlled temperature, and farmers say the seedlings yield well.
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'India's Rice Bowl' Is Emptying: Who Is to Blame?
Chhattisgarh, known as India's rice bowl, faces allegations of major irregularities as thousands of quintals of government-procured paddy are written off each year as natural losses.
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A Hobby Turned Bird Business Selling Tk 3 Lakh a Month
Young entrepreneur Mehedi Hasan Shuvo has turned a childhood love of birds into a shop in Old Dhaka that sells Tk 2-3 lakh worth of birds a month.
Crops
Rice Seedlings Dying in Dense Fog, Farmers Worried
A cold wave and dense fog in Bhola are killing boro rice seedlings, leaving farmers, some of them on loans, fearing a shortage of seedlings.
Crops
How to Care for Livestock in Winter
A veterinary student sets out how farmers can keep cattle warm, well fed and healthy through Bangladesh's cold December and January.
Environment
Man Caught Slaughtering Deer Trapped in Sitakunda
Local people in Sitakunda caught a man as he slaughtered a deer trapped in a coastal keora plantation, and the forest department is preparing a case.
Fisheries
Coordination Needed for Animal Health and Nutrition Security: Fisheries Adviser
Opening the sixth AHCAB international expo in Dhaka, adviser Farida Akhter said the government cannot ensure food and nutrition security alone.
Crops
What Farmers Should Do About Potato Late Blight in Winter
With the DAE warning that late blight could reach epidemic levels this winter, a diploma agriculturist explains the symptoms and the recommended spraying.
Environment
YouTuber 'Speed' Races a Cheetah
American streamer Darren Watkins, known as 'Speed', raced a cheetah in a video, keeping pace at first before the animal pulled away to the finish.
Crops
Farmer Trampled to Death by Wild Elephants in Sherpur
A 65-year-old farmer was killed by a herd of wild elephants while cutting grass in the Balijhuri range of Sreebardi upazila in Sherpur.