Crops
One Lakh Palm Saplings to Be Planted Across the Country
A campaign to plant one lakh palmyra saplings across Bangladesh to curb lightning deaths and protect the climate and biodiversity was launched in Rajshahi with 1,000 saplings.
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Environment
Monocled Cobra Found in Home With 25 Eggs
A venomous monocled cobra about five feet long was rescued with 25 intact eggs from a house in Boalkhali, Chattogram, and released in the jungle.
Environment
Rakhi's Hobby Nursery Earns Her a Lakh a Month
Atifa Nasrin Rakhi of Dimla in Nilphamari started with Tk 1,000 worth of cactus in 2020 and now runs a commercial nursery earning her up to a lakh taka a month.
Crops
Saplings From PM's Tree-Planting Programme Allegedly Destroyed With Pesticide
Betel nut saplings planted beside a village road in Burichang, Cumilla, under the Prime Minister's tree-planting programme were allegedly killed with pesticide, and a complaint has been filed with police.
Environment
Deputy Speaker Replants Saplings Where Vandals Uprooted Them in Netrokona
Deputy Speaker Barrister Kaiser Kamal replanted saplings at Bamoni on the Kalmakanda-Thakurakona road in Netrokona where miscreants had uprooted earlier plantings.
Environment
Palm Saplings Planted at RUET to Reduce Lightning Risk
The Rajshahi divisional committee of the ICT Employee Society of Bangladesh planted palm saplings at the RUET gate to reduce the growing risk of lightning and protect climate and biodiversity.
Crops
Kenyan counties put soil and irrigation research to the test in Kisumu dialogue
Officials from Kisumu, Siaya, Busia and Vihiga counties reviewed fertiliser-recommendation and irrigation-advisory tools with national ministries and researchers, feeding into two policy briefs under the iSPARK project.
Environment
More than a billion hectares of farmland degraded, FAO tells COP17
At the UN desertification conference in Mongolia, FAO helped mobilise $1.2 billion in rangeland pledges and pushed food security into the convention's future strategy.
Environment
Will Nepal's Flood Water Come Straight to Bangladesh?
The ice-and-rock avalanche that set off a deadly flash flood in Nepal's Rasuwa district on 26 August holds lessons for downstream Bangladesh on early warning and cross-border river data.
Environment
Housewife Dies of Snakebite in Kushtia After Time Lost With Exorcist
A 26-year-old housewife in Daulatpur, Kushtia, died of a venomous snakebite after her family took her to an exorcist for hours instead of to hospital.
Agribusiness
Hilsa Supply Up in Chandpur but Prices Still Beyond Reach
Hilsa supply has increased at Chandpur's Boro Station fish landing, one of the country's largest, but prices remain beyond the reach of ordinary buyers.
Fruits
The World's Largest Squirrel Lives in Bangladesh, So Why Is It Disappearing?
Squirrels, including the rare Malayan giant squirrel of Habiganj's Rema-Kalenga forest, are declining in Bangladesh because of habitat loss, hunting, pesticides and climate change.
Vegetables
Vegetable Prices Ease Slightly but Sugar, Oil, Flour and Eggs Squeeze Shoppers
Vegetables have become slightly cheaper in Dhaka's markets, but prices of sugar, edible oil, flour and eggs are rising while companies cut supplies of bottled oil and sugar.
Market Management
Sugar up 20% in a month in India, and sweet shops are feeling it
Sugar has reached 70 rupees a kilogram in several West Bengal districts, and many on social media are blaming ethanol made from sugarcane.
Organic
Plantd turns its grass-panel factory waste into biochar for farm soils
North Carolina building-materials company Plantd, which was paying $13,000 a month to remove leftover grass biomass, has launched a biochar line made from that waste and is selling it to farmers as a soil amendment.
Crops
Zinc wheat goes from 64,000 to 3.1 million hectares in Pakistan
Pakistan's biofortified zinc wheat programme grew from 64,000 hectares in 2019 to more than 3.1 million in 2023, reaching 3.3 million farming households, after the province of Punjab paid for breeder seed and cleared the certification bottleneck.
Environment
Soil degradation is worsening while proven fixes go unused, FAO report finds
The Status of the World's Soil Resources 2026 finds erosion management poor or very poor in 81 percent of assessments, with only about 10 percent of regions reporting improvement since 2015.
Agribusiness
Carbon credits add USD 180 a hectare: far too little for cacao farmers
A study of 927 Colombian cacao farmers finds that carbon revenue over 25 years adds about USD 180 a hectare in the best case and subtracts USD 17 in the worst, while farmers lose income for the first seven years of the switch to agroforestry.
Environment
Rare Siebold's Water Snake Rescued in Sreemangal
The Bangladesh Wildlife Service Foundation rescued a young Siebold's water snake, a very rare non-venomous aquatic species, from a border village in Sreemangal.
Environment
Five-Foot Snake Rescued From Jahangirnagar University Professor's Room
A non-venomous rat snake about five and a half feet long was rescued from the room of a Government and Politics professor at Jahangirnagar University.