Environment adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan told the closing of National Tree Fair 2024 that tree planting should be held in the soul, and urged the Forest Department to focus on afforestation, not the timber trade.
Perching, which lets insect-eating birds control rice pests from sticks set in the field, now covers about 80 percent of rice land in Joypurhat and is cutting pesticide use.
A seventh-grade pupil in Mirsharai, Chattogram, died of a snakebite after his family first took him to a traditional healer.
Forest officials rescued a large python tangled in a net fence on a chilli field in Hatipagar village, Nalitabari, and released it into Madhutila forest.
Flash floods after a Dhalai river embankment breach in Kamalganj have buried farmland under sand and destroyed about 32 lakh grafted tomato seedlings.
Flood-hit farmers in Sunamganj's haor region are starting winter vegetables with cheap, high-yield seedlings raised in a local poly house.
A lone black-faced langur has been roaming Phulbari upazila town in Dinajpur for several days, taking food from homes and shops.
A young entrepreneur has become the first in Mirsharai, Chattogram, to grow avocado successfully, and now plans to expand and sell seedlings.
The Ansar and Village Defence Party distributed free Aman rice seedlings to 400 flood-affected farmers in Cumilla and Feni districts.
Apon Ghar Foundation handed out 5,000 tree saplings to students of St Philip's High School and College in Dinajpur.
Farmers in Panchbibi upazila of Joypurhat are turning to year-round watermelon grown with mulching, earning well from different coloured varieties.
An FAO delegation met Bangladesh's agriculture adviser to discuss flood damage to agriculture, technical support and diversifying farm exports.
Gono University Career Development Club has launched a drive to plant 1,000 trees this year, starting with around 100 saplings of 15 species.
