Agriculture Minister Dr Md Abdur Razzaque said positive decisions would be taken, after talks with the prime minister, to support the poultry sector and keep broiler chicken affordable.
Migratory birds escaping the northern winter have begun arriving at Chatal Beel in Narsingdi's Monohardi, drawing visitors, though hunting keeps cutting their numbers.
Farmers on Jamalpur's river chars grow valuable crops but say broken roads and difficult river crossings deny them fair prices and quick access to hospitals.
Forest department staff rescued a python from a kitchen in Patharghata, Barguna, and later released it in the Haringhata mangrove forest.
Wild elephants crossing from India at night have trampled crops, shallow pumps and homes in border villages of Kurigram's Rowmari and Rajibpur upazilas.
Rising prices and tourist demand for duck meat are drawing more people in haor-rich Sunamganj into duck farming, with some now earning lakhs.
Pruning branches from planting until fruiting is one of the main tasks of fruit tree management, done according to variety, age and growth habit.
At least 30 pupils fell ill and were admitted to hospital after a snake was allegedly found in the mid-day meal at a primary school in West Bengal's Birbhum district.
Firefighters rescued a cat that had been stuck for three days on the third-floor ledge of a building in Chattogram's Chandgaon residential area.
Dense fog and a cold wave are damaging irri-boro seedbeds in Naogaon, though officials say there are enough seedbeds to meet the target.
Farmers in Jhalakathi say they have not seen an aman harvest this good in 10 years, and prices in the market are satisfying too.
With no permanent solution in a decade and a half, wild elephants and people keep dying in the conflict on the Sherpur border, where settlements have spread into the animals' range.
As rains turn hills around Makkah and Madinah green, Saudi Arabia is pressing ahead with mega-projects such as Green Riyadh and the Saudi Green Initiative to plant billions of trees.
The forest department plans to plant 3.15 crore trees on newly risen coastal chars over the next five years to build a green wall protecting the Chattogram coast.
Security staff at Tampa International Airport found a live four-foot boa constrictor coiled in a woman passenger's luggage.
VideoSherpur's Hazrat Ali Akanda, once a hawker and shop worker, has expanded his fruit orchard to 1,000 bighas and plans an agritourism centre.
More than 50 farmers in Kalkini, Madaripur, are growing vegetables on floating beds on waterlogged land, and others in the district are taking an interest.
With a cold wave sweeping the country, the agriculture ministry and the Agricultural Information Service (AIS) have advised farmers how to protect boro seedbeds.
The Agricultural Information Service has set out fertiliser doses and timing for both long- and short-duration boro rice varieties.
Paddy prices in Naogaon have risen by Tk 50 to 80 a maund in 15 days, though farmers are still squeezed by higher costs of goods, fertiliser and fuel.
