HealthA pupil at a government primary school in Chilmari, Kurigram, found insects inside a school-feeding bun; the upazila education officer has ordered the whole batch returned and left unpaid.
LivestockThree char unions of Chilmari in Kurigram keep about 29,000 cattle and buffaloes but have no permanent livestock doctor, so sick animals often die on the boat to the upazila town.
OrganicSaju Mondol of Rajarhat, Kurigram, has made vermicompost with red worms for four years for his own fields; he expects about 12 maunds this year and wants training and support to sell it.
The Center for Zakat Management has built 12 flood-resilient houses on pillars in Rajibpur's Kodalkathi and Mohonganj unions; ten families have moved in and two homes are still being built.
With new chars rising, the river running shallow and rainfall patterns changing, catches in the Brahmaputra have fallen so far that many fishermen around Chilmari in Kurigram are turning to day labour and rickshaw pulling.
Traders in Rajarhat, Kurigram, buy about 50 tonnes a month of dried, rotten betel nuts at Tk 60-100 a kilogram and send them to paint and chemical factories, giving seasonal work to more than a hundred mostly women workers.
A decision to sell fertiliser through registered ward-level retailers has not reached the field in Kurigram, where crowds at single dealer points have led to road blockades and attacks on agriculture officials.
The agriculture department in Kurigram will distribute fertiliser in the coming Rabi season against a soil health protection card.
Farmers in Ulipur, Kurigram blocked the Kurigram-Chilmari road for about an hour after a dealer and two extension officers left without distributing fertiliser.
Abdullah Al Mamun, deputy director of agricultural extension in Kurigram, has been transferred amid continuing disorder in fertiliser distribution.
In Rajarhat, Kurigram, farmer Zaman Mia is growing off-season and year-round watermelon under polytunnels with mulching and pheromone traps.
After protests, warehouse looting and an assault on an extension officer during aman, the DAE will update the 2014 list of the district's 584,000 farmers and issue temporary cards carrying photo, NID and landholding; deputy director Abdullah Al Mamun says NID-only distribution let non-farmers take f
At Ghogadaha in Kurigram Sadar, 120 sacks of urea were due for distribution but the dealer never opened; farmers assaulted sub-assistant agriculture officer Mamun Or Rashid, who fled to a trader's house. The dealer faces a show-cause notice.
