Opinion
What Agriculture Needs in the Election Manifestos
Drawing on his Agriculture Budget, Farmers' Budget sessions, Shykh Seraj set out ten farm priorities he wanted in the 2018 election manifestos.
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Opinion
OpinionWar-Wounded Freedom Fighter Manik Ali's Plea to the Prime Minister
Shykh Seraj meets a freedom fighter who lost his sight and left hand in 1971 and still has not received the allotment papers for his house.
Opinion
'Hasina: A Daughter's Tale' and Some Untold Truths
Shykh Seraj reviews the docudrama 'Hasina: A Daughter's Tale' after its premiere at Bashundhara Cineplex, calling it a well-made and restrained film.
Opinion
"Returning to Roots" Around the World: Lessons From Stone Barns
Shykh Seraj describes a visit to Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture in New York, where children and students learn farming from field to plate.
Environment
A Bangladeshi Behind Qatar's Many Greening Efforts
Shykh Seraj visits a vast Dutch-owned nursery in Qatar managed by Abdul Karim of Kulaura, and sees an export opening for Bangladesh.
Environment
Farmer-Friendly Lightning Protection
With farmers making up most lightning deaths, a young engineer in Dhamrai has built a movable earthed lightning conductor for fields, and experts add safety rules.
Livestock
Plantain: A Safe, Antibiotic-Free Livestock Feed
Researcher Dr Al Mamun has adapted plantain, a medicinal herb used as dairy feed in New Zealand, to Bangladesh as an alternative to antibiotic growth promoters.
Opinion
Has Football Lost Its Beauty?
Watching the World Cup with a village youth who mistook Iceland's goalkeeper for Messi, Shykh Seraj asks whether football has lost the artistry of old.
Opinion
Eid Joy of Bengal's People in the Cultural Sphere of the Media
Shykh Seraj traces how Eid grew into a national festival in Bangladesh and calls on the media to include the rural people who feed the nation in its Eid celebrations.
Bangladesh
How the National Budget Came Into Farmers' Thinking
Shykh Seraj describes how the Agriculture Budget, Farmers' Budget programme brought farmers into pre-budget talks and what it has achieved.
Opinion
The Sanctity of the House of Allah
Shykh Seraj describes how phones, selfie sticks and live video have broken the devotion around the Kaaba and the Prophet's Mosque, and asks Saudi Arabia to ban mobiles there.
Livestock
Belgian Blue Could Be an Alternative
After visiting a Belgian Blue farm in Belgium, Shykh Seraj argues the breed could be researched in Bangladesh to meet beef demand.
Agribusiness
A Revolutionary Industrialist: Amjad Khan Chowdhury and PRAN
On his first death anniversary, Shykh Seraj recalls how PRAN founder Amjad Khan Chowdhury connected Bangladeshi farmers to agro-industry through contract farming and processing.