VideoPalash Builds His Dream on Guava Farming, Not a Job
After leaving a garment job, H M Forwardi Palash planted an acre of year-round guava in Bhaluka, Mymensingh, and is working towards GAP certification to supply supershops.
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VideoIntegrated Duck and Fish Farming Halves Costs in Trishal
In Trishal, Mymensingh, two brothers combine ducks and fish to cut commercial feed costs, while struggling with invasive sucker fish in their ponds.
VideoArtificial Insemination at Diamond Chicks
Shykh Seraj visits Diamond Chicks, one of the country's largest poultry companies, where artificial insemination lets one cockerel fertilise 80 to 100 hens.
VideoA Unique Agritourism Venture on 12.5 Bighas Inside Chattogram City
In the heart of Chattogram, Well Agro Farm offers crops, a dairy, fish ponds and hands-on farm education for children on about 12.5 bighas.
VideoFarmers' Lives on the Meghna Chars
On the chars of the Meghna in Kishoreganj, hundreds of farmers grow vegetables against poor communications, input problems and weak markets.
VideoEntrepreneur Sajal Ahmed's Unusual Research on Foreign Fruits
In Chuadanga, entrepreneur Sajal Ahmed's orchard of about 500 fruit varieties tests which foreign fruits can be grown profitably in Bangladesh.
VideoAmazed at Kaikartek Haat
Kaikartek Haat on the bank of the Brahmaputra in Narayanganj has for generations been a weekly market for farm produce, seedlings, poultry and rural tools.
VideoHormone-Treated Dragon Fruit: Health Risks Rise as Demand Falls
A 42-bigha dragon fruit farm in Munshiganj shows modern growing at scale, while overuse of growth hormones in some areas is hurting fruit quality and demand.
VideoA Collection of Rare Local and Foreign Mangoes Grows in Chandpur
On three and a half acres beside the Dakatia river, Helal Uddin's Fruits Valley Agro has become a collection of rare mangoes and other fruits from home and abroad.
VideoChanging Agriculture in the Haor
Shykh Seraj visits Baniachong in the Habiganj haor to examine how farming there has shifted to early, short-duration rice varieties to escape pre-monsoon floods.
VideoDeep Wounds on Farmland as Floodwaters Recede
As the 2024 floodwaters recede in Feni, farms such as Jannat Agro in Dharmapur, a 10-acre integrated fruit farm, have been left devastated.
VideoFlood Situation: Losses in Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries
Flash floods in August 2024 swept across 11 districts in eastern Bangladesh, submerging homes, roads and farmland; the report examines losses and recovery plans.
VideoAnowara Khanam Dolly's Large Quail Farm
Two quails bought as a hobby grew into a large quail farm with its own hatchery for entrepreneur Anowara Khanam Dolly, and her prosperity has spread through her village.
VideoThe Dried Fish Market on Saidpur's Terminal Road
The dried fish market on Terminal Road in Saidpur, Nilphamari, is the hub of north Bengal's shutki trade, handling fish from the coast, India and Myanmar.
VideoVannamei Shrimp Farmed Commercially in Bangladesh for the First Time
At Seamark's 12-acre farm in Ukhiya, Cox's Bazar, the first commercially farmed vannamei shrimp in Bangladesh are being harvested from fully controlled ponds.
VideoTwo Brothers' Vermicompost Factory in Monirampur, Jashore
In Monirampur, Jashore, two brothers have set up a large vermicompost factory, producing worm compost that is richer in nutrients than other organic fertilisers.
VideoThe History and Heritage of Date Palm Jaggery
Hridoye Mati O Manush looks at how media campaigns and local government in Chaugachha, Jashore, have revived date palm sap collection and jaggery making.
VideoChattogram's Neamat Ali Grows Betel Leaf in the Omani Desert
In Salalah, Oman, Neamat Ali from Chattogram has turned years of uncertainty into success, farming 12 bighas commercially including betel leaf.
VideoAsia's Largest Farm Machinery Exhibition in Wuhan, China, 2023: Episode 4
In episode four from Asia's largest farm machinery exhibition in Wuhan, Shykh Seraj reports on a competition in which Chinese university students build machines for the future.
VideoBFRI Works to Conserve Endangered Native Fish
With pollution, overfishing and shrinking wetlands threatening native fish, the Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute is working to bring endangered species back.
VideoBiochar to Cut Carbon Emissions
A team led by Professor Shamim Mia at Patuakhali Science and Technology University is researching biochar as a way to lock carbon in soil and curb global warming.
VideoAvocado Grown Commercially in Bangladesh for the First Time
A Jhenaidah schoolteacher has begun the first commercial avocado cultivation in Bangladesh, while a horticulture expert urges research before wider planting.
VideoHazrat's 1,000-Bigha Fruit Orchard
Sherpur's Hazrat Ali Akanda, once a hawker and shop worker, has expanded his fruit orchard to 1,000 bighas and plans an agritourism centre.
VideoDuck Farming Without Water in China
In Guangdong, China, companies are raising fast-growing meat ducks in simple sheds without any ponds, through contract farming with local growers.