Agribusiness
Trees, Friends of People, Now a Source of Terror
The death of filmmaker Khalid Mahmud Mithu under a falling tree has turned many of Dhaka's old trees into objects of fear, with activists calling for coordinated care.
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Rooftop farming
Shamsul Alam Has Tended His Rooftop Farm for Fifteen Years
In Panchlaish Hillview, Chattogram, Shamsul Alam has tended a well-planned rooftop farm for fifteen years, supplying his family with fresh vegetables and fruit.
Crops
The Jute Industry Is Waking Up
With closed mills reopening and jute packaging made mandatory, Bangladesh's jute industry is reviving and a large domestic market is emerging.
Agribusiness
The Netherlands, Unique in the History of Trade and Industry
Keukenhof, a vast tulip garden open to tourists two months a year, stands at the centre of a Dutch flower trade that supplies 60 per cent of the world's flowers.
Flowers
Flowers, Fruit and Birds on a House Roof
A Gulshan couple has spent 20 years turning their roof into a small farm of vegetables, fruit, flowers and birds.
Fruits
Sweet Malta Orchards Spread Village by Village in Pirojpur
Malta orchards are spreading across villages in Pirojpur Sadar, where marginal farmer Rebati Sikder earned about 70,000 taka from 150 trees on his homestead.
Rooftop farming
A Farming-Minded Couple Fulfils a Dream on Their Roof
In Adabor, agricultural extension officials A B M Siddique and Anwara Sharmin have turned their six-storey roof into a farm of about 60 kinds of plants.
Rooftop farming
A Housewife's Success With a Rooftop Garden
At government officers' quarters in Eskaton, Sufia Akhtar Jahan has built a rooftop garden of about 50 species that has won national recognition.
Crops
Tea Drinking Rises in the Country, a Huge Economic Turnover
Villagers now drink cup after cup of tea every day, and a rough calculation suggests Bangladeshis spend close to Tk 100 crore a day on it, a turnover hidden from view.
Agribusiness
Farewell to an Economist Devoted to Agriculture
Shykh Seraj pays tribute to development economist Dr Mahbub Hossain, whose work on rice research, food security and sharecropper credit shaped Bangladesh's agriculture.
Environment
A Farm on Unused Land at RAB Headquarters
At the Rapid Action Battalion headquarters in Dhaka, unused, polluted land has been turned into an organic integrated farm over three years.
Organic
Biological Pest Control Spreads Worldwide
UK-based Russell IPM, where a young Bangladeshi scientist leads research, supplies pheromone-based pest control to 145 countries as an alternative to pesticides.
Livestock
Texel, the Netherlands' Kingdom of Sheep
On the Dutch island of Texel, family sheep farms with strict stocking limits produce world-famous sheep's milk cheese.
Agrotech
Windmills, a Living Legacy of Dutch Civilisation
Shykh Seraj visits Zaanse Schans, where 12 of some 13,000 historic Dutch windmills still work, a reminder of how old the idea of renewable energy is.
Bangladesh
Farming Traditions Are Fading
In both England's Shropshire and Bangladesh's Muladuli, landowning families are leaving farming, and in Bangladesh sharecroppers are taking over and prospering.
Fruits
Uganda, the Kingdom of Bananas
In Uganda, where bananas are the staple and main crop, BRAC is producing tissue-culture seedlings to help farmers fight Panama disease.
Fruits
Uganda's Success in Improving Child Nutrition
With BRAC Uganda's agriculture and nutrition project, farm women in Uganda have created a nutritious baby food from milk, iron beans and sweet potato powder.
Crops
BRAC Working to Lift Uganda's Marginalised People
BRAC, the Bangladesh-based NGO, is helping Uganda's marginalised people with farming and nutrition, reaching 64 of the country's 120 districts.
Opinion
Food Security Versus Hidden Hunger
On World Food Day, Shykh Seraj examines why hunger and malnutrition persist despite rising food supply, and where Bangladesh stands.
Vegetables
Day and Night Are of Equal Length Today
On 23 September, the autumn equinox, day and night are of equal length, and the equator in Uganda draws tourists from around the world.