LivestockThe carton date, the float test and the look of a cracked egg give a guide to its age, but US food-safety officials say a floating egg is old, not necessarily bad: the smell decides.
A journalist-entrepreneur has turned an abandoned brickfield in Chandpur into a fruit farm growing 75 foreign and high-value mango varieties.
Few buyers and prices below expectations forced Pabna farmers to bring about 30,000 cattle home unsold from Eid-ul-Azha haats.
A 1997 experiment with a hurricane lamp and rice husk has turned Maheshrauhali in Sirajganj's Tarash upazila into one of the country's biggest duckling markets, now hatching 12 to 15 lakh ducklings a day.
Bottle gourd fried with egg is an easy, nutritious and tasty everyday dish that needs only a few ingredients and little time.
Rotten eggs cannot be eaten, but used carefully they can serve as organic fertiliser, a compost ingredient and a natural deterrent for garden pests.
FruitsIn early June 2026, after Eid-ul-Azha, Rajshahi's Baneshwar market was full of mangoes but short of buyers; Gopalbhog fell from more than Tk 2,000 a maund at the start of the season to Tk 1,400-1,600.
An economist and former vice-chancellor of Jahangirnagar University recalls his childhood in Sugandhi, a low-lying village on the Meghna, and mourns what it has become.
LivestockIn a 4 June 2026 chart, USDA's Economic Research Service projected 228.8 pounds of beef, pork, broiler and turkey meat and 22.5 dozen eggs per American consumer in 2026, rising to 229.4 pounds and 22.9 dozen in 2027.
With only about 92 lakh of 1.23 crore prepared animals sacrificed this Eid-ul-Azha, some 31 lakh remain unsold, leaving farmers facing losses and mounting feed costs.
Beef cooked without oil, marinated in yoghurt, spices and raw papaya paste, makes a lighter and healthier dish for the Eid holidays.
LivestockDhaka North City Corporation formed a three-member committee on 3 June 2026 to assess the damage a temporary Eid cattle market at Diabari caused around Uttara Centre metro station.
Cooking beef with kalai dal, a traditional rural lentil, adds depth and variety to a favourite Bengali dish.
