LivestockWith no electricity from 10am until shortly before dusk on Tuesday because of a national grid fault, broilers on almost every poultry farm in Rupganj, Narayanganj, died from lack of oxygen and heat.
AgribusinessLocal truck workers demanding higher fares to cover fuel and running costs have stopped moving government rice and wheat from the Narayanganj silo at Siddhirganj for five days, and on Thursday blocked trucks the contractors brought in from outside.
FlowersLotus and red water lilies are in bloom on the roughly 1,000-acre Lawal, Ariyal and Purakura wetlands beside Zinda Park in Rupganj, Narayanganj, where visitors tour by boat for Tk 300 an hour.
Doctors posted to the five health sub-centres of Araihazar, Narayanganj, are attached elsewhere or absent; pharmacists and midwives run some centres and Kalapahariya is closed.
HealthBangladesh's first oral cholera vaccination drive reached 82.6 percent of its target with the first dose, leaving more than 852,000 people out, about 42 percent of them in Narayanganj.
Ramzan Ali of Gourabardi village in Sonargaon upazila, Narayanganj, is growing off-season Kalachan and Tripti watermelons on trellises over seven bighas, with fish in the pond and gourds on its banks, and says he now earns about Tk 50,000 a month.
A garment industrialist who turned to farming as a hobby has built a 35-bigha integrated organic farm in Narayanganj that supplies his own workers.
A girls' high school in Narayanganj has turned its 8,000 sq ft roof into a garden and practical botany classroom for its 1,500 students.
On the roof of a seven-storey garment factory beside the Shitalakshya in Narayanganj, the owner has built a rooftop farm that has turned commercial.
