Livestock
Easy Ways to Rear Pigeons
Pigeons need little space, breed quickly and fetch good prices, making them an easy source of income with a little care.
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Crops
Farmers Can Now Decide Their Own Fertiliser and Pesticide Use With the Khamari App
The Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council has developed the Khamari app, which lets farmers in the field see which crop suits their land and how much fertiliser and pesticide to use.
Fisheries
Turtles Are Dying Even as They Come Ashore to Lay Eggs
Researchers have recovered more than a hundred dead mother turtles, most of them egg-bearing olive ridleys, from the Cox's Bazar coast during the breeding season.
Livestock
Shamim Becomes a Crorepati Through Quail Farming
Shamim Al Mamun of Sakhipur in Tangail began with 500 quail chicks and now has about 25,000 birds and his own hatchery.
Livestock
Quitting His Job, He Found Success With Quail
Abdur Rahman left a private-sector job to start a quail farm beside the Chattogram–Cox's Bazar highway and now earns Tk 30,000 a month.
Livestock
Why Raise Quail?
Quail farming has become popular in Bangladesh because the birds can be raised cheaply in little space on little feed.
Fruits
Foods to Eat on an Empty Stomach to Stay Healthy
Honey water, soaked almonds, eggs, oat porridge and fruit are among the foods nutritionists recommend eating first thing in the morning.
Crops
Rajbari's Rubel Becomes Self-Reliant Rearing Guinea Fowl
Starting with 13 guinea fowl as a hobby, Rajbari's Raju Ahmmed Rubel now keeps about 900 birds and sells thousands of chicks each month.
Livestock
'Quail Has Kept Me Alive'
Faridpur's Chunnu Mia turned Tk 16,000 into a quail, turkey and guinea fowl business worth Tk 23 lakh, inspiring other young people in the district.
Livestock
Dhaka University Graduate Turns to Quail Farming After Losing His Job
After his NGO project job ended, Mahabubul Alam Naim built a commercial quail farm in Kalapara that he says now earns him Tk 50,000 a month.
Crops
Antor's Success Rearing Foreign Chicken Breeds
A college student in Shariatpur has built a farm of eight foreign chicken breeds that earns him at least Tk 30,000 a month.
Livestock
Montu Succeeds with Quail Farm Started as a Hobby
A quail farm in Magura Sadar's Naliardangi village has made its owner self-reliant and given work to young people from the village.
Crops
Onion Seed Problem: New Seed Distributed to 16,000 Farmers
Farmers whose incentive onion seed failed to germinate this season have been given replacement seed, some of it imported urgently from abroad.