The Sundarbans reopens on 1 September after its three-month breeding-season closure, but the fishers and forest workers heading back in carry heavy debts and fear of pirates.
River police arrested two men with about 220kg of deer meat on a trawler on the Belua river at Nesarabad in Pirojpur.
TRIC Robotics has gone from half-acre trials in 2021 to treating more than 1,500 acres of commercial strawberries this year with a fleet of 15 autonomous machines that use ultraviolet light and bug vacuums in place of chemical pesticides.
California’s Bonsai Robotics says a learned vision model that turns 2D camera images into a 3D understanding of the field lets one autonomy system work across orchards, vineyards and berries; it has sold more than 400 units and its new Amiga Max platform is sold out for the year.
LivestockA USDA package centred on a new insurance endorsement would pay ranchers the difference when a heifer is worth more at slaughter than as breeding stock, alongside loans for regional processors.
Seattle laser-weeding company Carbon Robotics crossed $100 million in revenue in the year to March 2026, is building a new and still unannounced farm machine, and intends to become a publicly traded company, founder Paul Mikesell says.
Water left from washing rice can help some indoor plants in small amounts, but it must be used sparingly, without salt or spices, and never as a replacement for fertiliser.
IITA's Soil Values Program trained 20 team leaders, surveyors and technical staff in standardised soil sampling and digital data capture before they were deployed to map soil fertility constraints in two Niger watersheds.
ICRISAT's Nutri-Food Basket turned locally grown millets into ready-to-cook meals and energy bars made by 80 tribal women and youth in eight processing units, reaching over 29,000 people and creating a steady market for millet farmers.
In Katete and Sinda districts, the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT and Solidaridad Zambia trained 5 extension officers and 10 lead farmers, who will each reach about 35 farmers, as forecasters warn of another El Niño for 2026/27.
Neither the golgachh (nipa palm) nor its leaves are round; the name comes from the round clusters of its fruit, and the palm has long sustained Sundarbans leaf collectors and coastal homes.
The hilsa catch at the Domkhali-Sahebkhali estuary in Mirsarai, Chattogram, has doubled this year, though officials say industrialisation still threatens the breeding ground.
Bangladesh Bank has set up a Tk 2,000 crore special pre-finance fund to help frozen food exporters, lending at a maximum of 7 per cent interest.
After ordering spices and ghee off the shelves, BSTI says scanning the QR code on the wrapper is the quickest way to separate genuine from fake.
A large python that crept into a cattle farm in Sreemangal, Moulvibazar, was rescued by the Bangladesh Wildlife Service Foundation and released in Lawachara forest.
Bangladesh Bank has cut the interest rate on its Tk 3,000 crore refinance fund for an agro-based special economic hub in North Bengal, capping customer rates at 7 per cent.
The Bangladesh Food Safety Authority fined 16 establishments a total of Tk 20.5 lakh and filed 16 cases in drives across the country from 23 to 29 August.
Bangladesh's traditional cane craft is in decline despite strong demand abroad, but with government support it could earn foreign exchange and give work to the unemployed.
Land Minister Mizanur Rahman Minu joined a palm-planting drive against lightning at Rajshahi Medical College and urged people to care for saplings until they grow.
The SAARC Agriculture Centre in Dhaka met heads and senior representatives of national and international organisations to identify possible joint programmes and areas of cooperation for 2027.
