Farmers taking fertiliser from a dealer's warehouse in Kurigram has renewed questions about supply, with farmers reporting shortages and overcharging while the ministry says stocks are ample and blames old dealers.
Indiana’s century-old Keystone Cooperative, which serves more than 20,000 farmers, has invested in and joined Alloy Partners’ One Health Studio to help build start-ups at the meeting point of animal, plant and human health.
Horticulture is now worth about $1.4 trillion a year, yet only half of countries grow enough fruit and vegetables to meet the FAO/WHO target of 400g a person a day.
IWMI and Ethiopian ministries have co-developed the country's first public-private partnership strategy for small-scale irrigation, built on seven business models and pilot schemes in Sidama and Central Ethiopia.
The Kenya Meteorological Service Authority, the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT and the AIM4Scale partnership have launched a pilot to turn new rainy-season onset and six-week forecasts into planting advice ahead of the 2026 short rains.
The cabinet committee on economic affairs has approved in principle the purchase of 15,000 pieces of dunnage for government food warehouses and a special procurement route for five immigration technologies.
A few simple tricks, starting with an ordinary steel spoon, make peeling ginger easier and cut down on waste.
Bangladesh will spend Tk 2,695 crore on 365,000 tonnes of urea, MOP, DAP and TSP fertiliser from Saudi Arabia, Russia, Morocco, Canada and KAFCO in the 2026-27 fiscal year.
Kochur mukhi dal, a traditional village dish of lentils cooked with taro corms, needs few ingredients and makes a tasty change served with hot rice.
A honeybee colony of up to 100,000 bees is run by a single queen, with a few hundred drones and a mass of workers who do everything from cleaning to guarding the hive.
Deposits in no-frills accounts for low-income people rose between March and June, but farmers' deposits in these accounts fell by 10.35 per cent, Bangladesh Bank data show.
Chester Zoo in the UK has used electrochemotherapy for the first time to treat cancer in a 15ft python, a treatment it believes has never before been given to a snake.
A Malaysian civil defence officer has died after being bitten by a king cobra while demonstrating snake-catching techniques at a community event in Temerloh.
A spicy shrimp pickle, made at home with a handful of ingredients, makes a different accompaniment to rice or khichuri.
Newly appointed Food Minister Afroza Khanam has called for visible change in the food ministry through greater transparency, accountability and efficiency, and for food programmes to reach genuine beneficiaries.
A 20-year-old college student died after a snakebite in Sherpur, and his family blames doctors at the district hospital for not giving antivenom in time, which the hospital denies.
With lightning deaths rising, the writer argues that lightning arrester towers in haor fields would protect farmers far sooner than planting palm trees.
Eating a rotten or contaminated egg can cause food poisoning, so it pays to know simple ways of telling whether an egg is fresh.
A trial plot of super hot chilli on just 10 decimals of land in Kaliganj, Gazipur, has brought farmer Kamal Sheikh a good harvest and good market prices, and he plans to expand next season.
The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh will auction 20 tonnes of prawns, shrimp and pomfret it bought as a gift for the Kuwaiti government after flight problems stopped the shipment.
