Rooftop farming
Liakat Hossain's Rooftop Farm in Park Circus, West Bengal
In Park Circus, West Bengal, Liakat Hossain and his wife have built a rooftop fruit garden that eases the loneliness of an emptier home.
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Flowers
Royal Van Zanten, One of the World's Top Flower Businesses
Shykh Seraj visits Royal Van Zanten, a Dutch flower company founded in 1862 that breeds, grows and exports bulbs worldwide.
Agribusiness
An Industrialist's Success With a Hobby Farm
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.
Fisheries
High-Yield Indoor Fish Farming Begins in Bangladesh
The Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research has begun indoor fish farming in tanks, which its scientists say yields many times more than ponds.
Bangladesh
After the 7 March Speech, Bengal's Farmers Turned the Liberation Struggle Into a People's War
From the Tebhaga movement to 1971, Bengal's farmers powered the struggle for independence, yet the question remains whether they get the respect they deserve.
Rooftop farming
The Rooftop Farm of Martyr Altaf Mahmud's Daughter
On Martyred Intellectuals Day, Shykh Seraj visits the Eskaton rooftop garden of Shaon Mahmud, daughter of the martyred composer Altaf Mahmud.
Flowers
Savar's Flower Farmers Face a Land Crisis
After three decades of commercial flower farming, growers in Savar say land is being lost to non-farm uses while artificial flowers undercut them.
Agribusiness
Turkey, a New Addition to the Poultry Industry
Turkey is a new addition to Bangladesh's poultry industry, and in Ashulia, Amir Hossain Sarkar went from 21 chicks to a commercial farm with its own hatchery in a year.
Agribusiness
A Modern Fish Farm Built With Big Investment in Chapainawabganj
In Chapainawabganj, the 20-hectare Nawab Fish Farm uses aerators and automatic feeding in 36 ponds, with fruit trees planted on the banks.
Rooftop farming
Rooftop Farming at a School in Narayanganj
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.
Agrotech
Robots and Drones Show the Advance of Technology at Wuhan Farm Machinery Fair
The sixth international agricultural machinery exhibition in Wuhan, China, featured 1,993 companies, robotic machines and many remote-controlled drones.
Fruits
Driver Motiur's Striking Success With Malta on Dry Land
In the mango district of Chapainawabganj, former driver Motiur Rahman has turned dry Barind land into a thriving malta and mixed fruit orchard.
Rooftop farming
A Rich Rooftop Farm on a Narayanganj Garment Factory
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.