Farmers in Chandipasha Charpara village of Pakundia, Kishoreganj, are earning well from early-season beans grown on small plots at low cost, with one hoping to sell about Tk 2 lakh more.
Mizanur Rahman, a driver from Choto Koldhari village in Magura's Mohammadpur, has built three mixed fruit orchards on two and a half bighas since 2021.
The government will import 110,000 tonnes of urea, DAP and TSP fertiliser from Saudi Arabia and Morocco for about Tk 902.74 crore.
Japan's halt on Indian mangoes, China's action on rice and tighter spice checks elsewhere have exposed weaknesses in India's testing and traceability systems.
Farmers and workers across Magura are busy stripping retted jute, with labourers earning one bundle of jute sticks for every two bundles they strip.
The agriculture ministry has ordered implementation of a revised fertiliser dealer policy that sets at least nine dealers per upazila and replaces separate BCIC and BADC dealerships with a single system.
Biotechnology, AI and drones could help Bangladesh's farming withstand climate threats, but the country is still at an early stage in biotechnology.
With wild fish stocks shrinking, fish and shrimp farming is proving more profitable than crop farming for Bangladeshi farmers, and the country ranks fifth in the world in aquaculture.
Agrivoltaics, which places solar panels above working farmland, could let land-scarce Bangladesh produce food and clean electricity on the same field.
A bamboo nursery stall at the month-long National Tree Fair in Dhaka has become one of its attractions by serving visitors free bamboo leaf tea.
With climate change making farming ever more uncertain, the writer argues adaptation, resilient varieties, water and soil management and digital tools must be at the heart of Bangladesh's agricultural strategy.
Birds pollinate crops, spread forests and control pests, but habitat loss, pesticides and human carelessness are driving them away, and a few simple everyday steps can help protect them.
Watering alone is not enough to keep indoor plants healthy; keeping the leaves free of dust and checking the plant daily matter just as much.
