About 55,123 acres of forest in Chattogram, Cox's Bazar and Bandarban are occupied, and 572 forest guards patrol the region's 855,968 acres of woodland.
EnvironmentA non-notified Otago consent allows up to 2,000 cubic metres of wastewater sludge a year on 178 hectares in the Manuherekia catchment; Otago president Anna Gillespie calls it an 'indefensible regulatory disparity' and wants a national rule.
AgribusinessIsis Central Sugar Mill in Queensland, which takes cane from about 200 growers, has an in-principle deal for a state loan capped at $9m and wants Canberra to match it.
CropsSunRice has shed 80 mill jobs and MP David Farley wants 75 percent of available environmental water sold to irrigators before planting; the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder says its entitlements are cut by the same allocation rules in a dry year.
LivestockUSDA FAS forecasts Philippine chicken consumption at 2.7 million tonnes in 2027, driven by population growth, prices well below pork after African swine fever, and fast-growing chicken chains.
LivestockUSDA and the Texas Animal Health Commission released another New World screwworm zone on 21 September; the Santa Teresa port reopens to Mexican cattle on 24 September.
FruitsA spring frost cut the Pacific Northwest harvest from 23.6 million boxes, returns of 70–80 cents a pound barely cleared costs of 65–70 cents, and small organic growers say packers will no longer take their fruit.
After protests, warehouse looting and an assault on an extension officer during aman, the DAE will update the 2014 list of the district's 584,000 farmers and issue temporary cards carrying photo, NID and landholding; deputy director Abdullah Al Mamun says NID-only distribution let non-farmers take f
The DAE team visited 26 of the stores and found most shut or limping, running on grid power instead of solar and sprouting potatoes within 15 days; 150 of a planned 180 have been built under two projects, 50 without a power connection; the inquiry says they are not commercially viable and should not
An intelligence report says subsidised fertiliser is being smuggled through the Cumilla, Brahmanbaria, Chapainawabganj, Jashore, Satkhira and Cox's Bazar borders with the collusion of dealers and transporters; the Coast Guard and BGB seized 235,908 kg and detained 117 people between June and 15 Sept
CropsUSDA's 25th Crop Progress report of the season puts 57 percent of corn and 58 percent of soybeans in good-to-excellent condition, both below last year, with winter wheat 17 percent planted against a 21 percent average.
CropsNutrien Ag Solutions meteorologist Eric Snodgrass says the late-summer ridge is fading, a split jet stream could bring repeated rain to the Corn Belt and Prairies into early October, and El Niño may rank among the strongest on record.
At a Bijoynagar press conference BFA chairman Md Mosharraf Hossain said BCIC dealers appointed in 1995 paid Tk 2 lakh deposits while BADC seed dealers were made fertiliser dealers in 2009 on Tk 25,000, and most irregularities now surfacing involve them; the government granted Tk 1 a kg of the Tk 4 c
Of 15,790 tonnes produced in 2023-24, 9,947 tonnes were exported to about 15 countries including Japan, China, Mongolia, Thailand, Malaysia and South Korea; researchers at Bangladesh Agricultural University have produced a safe, shelf-stable canned kuchia product on a trial basis.
Hedayet Hossain Shiplu of Bagjana Kuripara in Joypurhat's Panchbibi planted Shahi, hybrid and Nasi King varieties in December 2025 and has been harvesting since June; each tree yields 40-60 kg and ripe papaya sells at Tk 40-60 a kg; the district agriculture office advises him and neighbours are comi
CropsUniversity of Lleida researchers grew two modern wheat varieties under heat tents over two seasons and found pre-flowering heat cut grain number, post-flowering heat cut grain weight, and an early wave softened the damage of a later one.
AgrotechA low-cost electrochemical sensor using the dye alizarin gave continuous, stable pH readings across sandy, muddy, compacted and organic soils in a multi-month outdoor test, a study in Scientific Reports says.
AgribusinessA Truth Social post promised cheaper potash than Canada's, but Belarus says its output is contracted, mainly to China, and an analyst notes the post gives no price, tonnage or buyer.
AgribusinessThe Canadian Agricultural Safety Association gets two years of federal funding for campaigns such as BeGrainSafe, days after a fatal equipment accident in Manitoba.
EnvironmentThe Bureau of Reclamation had feared 6 percent in August; the eight-reservoir system stood at 11 percent on 18 September against a median of 41.5 percent, and deliveries should end around mid-October as usual.
