HealthMasudur Rahman of Monirampur, Jessore, needs a kidney transplant and his mother has agreed to donate, but the family cannot find anywhere in the country to do the donor's 'DTPA renogram with split function and GFR' test; he is on dialysis twice a week.
FisheriesThe fisheries department has drawn up a five-year project for 29 baors (oxbow lakes) in Jashore, Jhenaidah, Chuadanga and Kushtia: excavation, fish sanctuaries, fry production and community management. The proposal is awaiting appraisal at the Planning Commission.
HealthPharmacy researchers at Jashore University of Science and Technology have developed an oral nano capsule designed to release insulin according to blood sugar; it has shown positive results in mice, and they are seeking sponsorship for human trials.
CropsAbout 220 hectares are under cane against a 22,000-tonne target; growers get Tk 5-10 more a stick than last year and Khaldhar Mor market takes some 15,000 sticks a day, but fertiliser shortages have pushed up costs.
CropsA raid at Shankarpasha ferry ghat on the Bhairab found 420.2 tonnes missing from two stockpiles held by M/s Total Shipping Agency, a BCIC urea carrier; its Khulna branch head was fined Tk 500,000.
CropsGrowing aman rice on a bigha in Jashore now costs Tk 18,000-21,000 against Tk 15,000-18,000 last year, while paddy sells at about Tk 1,050 a maund, farmers and extension officials told Prothom Alo.
EnvironmentMonths of rain have overflowed the beels of Abhaynagar, Manirampur and Keshabpur in Jessore and low parts of Dumuria and Phultala in Khulna; a campaign committee wants tidal river management started before Maghi Purnima and the Amdanga canal dug.
Once bamboo fences and nets were removed from the Kata canal at Komorpur in Keshabpur, Jashore, water drained from Padma beel and nearby beels, saving 600 bighas of aman; 4,000 metres of banned China duari nets were seized.
CropsTrying to grow a spice Bangladesh almost entirely imports, a Benapole farmer planted small green cardamom from Africa; the three-and-a-half-year-old plants under mahogany shade are setting pods.
FisheriesThe Department of Fisheries cancelled 103 no-objection certificates for hilsa imports on 22 September, stopping imports through Benapole; 535 tonnes of the 1,739.50 tonnes allowed this fiscal year had arrived.
Md Robiul Islam of Kultia union in Jashore's Manirampur processes the pith left after fibre is stripped from coconut husks into cocopeat, the growing medium used in pro-tray nurseries for tomato, chilli, brinjal, capsicum and cabbage seedlings; district and upazila extension officers have visited an
With imported gas up from $8-9 to $28 a unit and diesel prices squeezing farmers each irrigation season, the government will switch every deep and shallow tube well to solar, starting with about 36,000 pumps including the Barind project, State Minister Anindya Islam Amit said in Jashore.
The consumer rights directorate fined a wholesaler Tk5,000 at Jashore Boro Bazar for passing off imported Indian hilsa as local catch.
Twenty-two firms imported hilsa through the land port in July and August, 91.66 percent of it in August; in Jashore the foreign fish sells for about Tk 2,000 a kilo less than local hilsa, and officials want it labelled as Indian.
Nineteen firms brought in about 70 million taka worth of hilsa through Benapole in July and August, most of it caught off Gujarat.
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics figures show capsicum production rising from about 150 tonnes in 2021-22 to 475 tonnes in 2024-25, with Bhola growing 55 percent of the crop and one Jashore farmer reporting average sales of Tk 50 lakh a year.
VideoIn Monirampur, Jashore, two brothers have set up a large vermicompost factory, producing worm compost that is richer in nutrients than other organic fertilisers.
On a roof of just 950 sq ft in Jashore, housewife Farhana Yasmin has arranged over a hundred plants and inspired women in her neighbourhood.
In Jashore, businessman Lutfor Rahman planned his roof for farming during construction, and now grows nearly all his family's fruit and vegetables there.
