FisheriesMore than 200 drying yards line the wetland in Ullapara, Salanga and Tarash, but fish are scarce and dear; traders blame banned China duari traps that catch even fry, and yard workers are losing work.
Many saplings planted under Sirajganj's government tree-planting drive have died within six weeks for lack of care, while one Ullapara union shows a cost of about Tk 399 per tree against a market price of Tk 50 to 60.
CropsA BADC-approved low-lift pump irrigation scheme in Ullapara, Sirajganj was sanctioned on land not owned by the applicant, and the pump was built on neighbouring railway property.
A DAE district vigilance team meeting in Sirajganj decided on regular monitoring and drives against unapproved, counterfeit or adulterated pesticides and told traders to take and renew licences under the Pesticide Act 2018.
A mobile court in Shahjadpur, Sirajganj, fined Jamuna Textile because its effluent treatment plant is too small for its waste water, removed a bypass line and gave it four months to upgrade.
At a one-day course by the Bangladesh Institute of Research and Training on Applied Nutrition in Sirajganj, workers heading abroad learned about balanced and safe food, drinking enough water and staying healthy in a foreign climate.
Two years after Barpakhia village vanished into the river in Shahjadpur, Sirajganj, erosion is eating Dhitpur and Kurshi, and many families say they have had no government help.
Officials in Sirajganj pressed for zinc-biofortified rice in social safety-net and school feeding schemes, with seed and training planned for 3,600 farmers this boro season.
Late-monsoon erosion by the Jamuna has taken at least 50 bighas of cropland in Kazipur, Sirajganj, about 20 bighas of triple-crop land in a single week; villagers blame illegal sand extraction and the lack of permanent bank protection.
CropsAt the height of the transplanted aman season in Tarash, Sirajganj, farmers say they cannot get fertiliser at the government price; a dealer's store held about 1,000 sacks while farmers paid Tk 300 to 600 extra a sack.
The Chhaber Mor fish market near Sirajganj town opens at dawn and is over by 8am. Buyers want native small river fish, but the supply is shrinking.
With fuel prices up, demand for ploughing and levelling fields with horses instead of tractors and power tillers is rising in villages of Talam union, Tarash, Sirajganj, and some farmers have made it their trade.
Sixty per cent of Sirajganj's 130 hectares of cucumber has been grown on plastic mulch as demonstration plots this season, and extension officers put the yield at 40 to 45 maunds a bigha.
