CropsIn November 2024, once the floodwater had receded, farmers in Lalmonirhat began sowing maize on the Teesta's sandbars. The district had a Rabi-season target of 32,910 hectares of maize, but dearer seed and fertiliser worried growers.
Organic management practices and fungicide sprays can protect dragon fruit, now grown commercially across Bangladesh, from three of its diseases.
After the August floods wiped out his summer watermelon field, young Mirsarai farmer Iqbal Hossain has borrowed to replant watermelon, rock melon and cucumber.
With water still filling Netrokona's haors and many sluice gates out of order, farmers fear late Boro planting will leave the crop exposed to early flash floods.
Farmers in Gaibandha hit by floods and heavy rain are busy growing winter vegetables to recover, though many say agriculture officials have given them little help.
Pest attacks are killing old orange trees and young seedlings in Juri upazila of Moulvibazar, threatening the area's famous green oranges.
Encouraged by last year's prices, Manikganj farmers are planting more onions this season, though doubled costs and a bigger crop have them worried about prices.
Seedling growers in Samespur village of Burichang, Cumilla, famous for half a century, are racing to recover flood losses as demand for their plants stays high.
Volunteers rescued a python about 10 feet long from a kitchen in Sitakunda, Chattogram, and released it deep in the hills.
Pabna farmer Anisur Rahman has succeeded in raising disease-free seedlings in a polynet house, and DAE says the method gives 20 percent higher yields with far fewer pest attacks.
Farmers in Jamalpur, hoping to recover losses from this year's rain and floods, have so far planted winter vegetables on 11,970 hectares.
Environment adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan has directed that eucalyptus and acacia seedlings no longer be planted for roadside social forestry.
Sap tappers across Chuadanga are preparing date palms for the winter season, with the district setting a target of 2,700 tonnes of molasses from nearly 272,000 trees.
