The AI-based platform Dr. Chashi, used with about 100,000 farmers since 2020, lets farmers photograph a diseased crop, get a likely diagnosis and act before reaching for pesticide.
Washing rice before cooking removes dust and surface starch and may reduce some contaminants, though for arsenic, cooking in plenty of water and draining it works better.
Hilsa's fat is not all harmful and the fish can be part of a healthy diet, provided it is eaten in moderation, cooked with little oil and with a doctor's advice for those with heart disease or high cholesterol.
Border Guard Bangladesh says a joint operation in Chirirbandar, Dinajpur, seized about 5.7kg of snake venom and arrested four people, with the total seizure valued at Tk 38.57 crore.
Bangladesh's stall at the 2026 Mekong-Lancang Fruit, Coffee, Flower and Beer Carnival in Kunming, China, has drawn strong interest from local visitors and traders.
The Forest Department's Wildlife Crime Control Unit has rescued two endangered slow lorises being smuggled in Haluaghat, Mymensingh, though the traffickers escaped.
Afroza Khanam Rita, the civil aviation and tourism minister, has been given charge of the Ministry of Food, with M Rashiduzzaman Millat taking over civil aviation and tourism.
Four months after farmers and traders stored hundreds of thousands of tonnes of potatoes in Bogura and Joypurhat hoping for better prices, demand is weak, prices are flat and the stored crop has begun to rot.
Chandpur District Detective Branch has arrested two members of a gang that took money through Facebook adverts for hilsa and other goods, recovering five mobile phones, SIM cards and Tk 60,000.
Schools in Karongi, Rusizi and Nyamasheke districts have received 90 seed planters and 45 multi-crop threshers under the 3SFI project to cut the labour of school gardens and raise production of iron-rich beans for school feeding.
At a workshop in Can Tho, IRRI and CIP found that women manage household finances in 80 per cent of the farms represented, yet fertiliser training has traditionally invited only one household member, usually the husband.
Local hilsa is selling far above Indian hilsa at Chattogram's Fishery Ghat because a storm signal kept trawlers from bringing in enough fish, but traders expect prices to ease within days.
A local youth volunteer group planted more than 200 betel nut saplings along a road in Kumrabaria village, Jhenaidah, to raise awareness of climate change and protect the natural balance.
The 21 BGB Battalion of Khulna distributed dry food to 70 families affected by heavy rain, flooding, river erosion and waterlogging in the Daulatpur border area of Benapole.
The palmyra palm, which lives for more than a century, helps protect against lightning, shelters birds, supplies food, crafts and building material, and is easy to plant on high ground.
Companies have cut the supply of bottled edible oil in Dhaka's markets while loose oil, sugar and flour prices climb and vegetables, fish, meat and eggs stay expensive.
VideoAfter leaving a garment job, H M Forwardi Palash planted an acre of year-round guava in Bhaluka, Mymensingh, and is working towards GAP certification to supply supershops.
Bangladesh Bank has signed agreements with seven banks to begin lending from a Tk 41,000 crore financing package built from banks' surplus liquidity to boost production, investment and jobs.
Bangladesh Bank has set up a Tk 10,000 crore refinancing scheme to lend to farmers and rural income-generating activities at 8 per cent interest, with collateral-free loans of up to Tk 5 lakh for small, marginal and tenant farmers.
Australian platform IIF, which lets ordinary people put money into a farmer’s cows, beehives or acres of canola and share the season’s return, is expanding across Canada after a funding round joined by its first Canadian investor, Verdex Capital.
