VegetablesPabna farmer Anisur Rahman has succeeded in raising disease-free seedlings in a polynet house, and DAE says the method gives 20 percent higher yields with far fewer pest attacks.
CropsTrishal's upazila administration has developed an AI-driven fish farming system using sensors, an app and automatic feeders and aerators that can quadruple output in a small area.
CropsResearchers at Patuakhali Science and Technology University have farmed coral (seabass) commercially in ponds using artificial feed enriched with seaweed.
VegetablesAquaponics, which links a fish tank with a floating vegetable tank, saves about 90 percent of water and needs no pesticide or chemical fertiliser.
CropsPerching, which lets insect-eating birds control rice pests from sticks set in the field, now covers about 80 percent of rice land in Joypurhat and is cutting pesticide use.
CropsBangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University has developed BU Soybean-5, a short-duration, waterlogging-tolerant soybean with the country's largest seeds.
CropsThe Department of Agricultural Extension will use drone and satellite images to monitor crops and assess flood damage, starting in Sylhet under an ADB-supported project.
CropsTen solar-powered irrigation pumps installed by BADC in Nilphamari now irrigate 250 hectares for about 500 farmers, turning sandy single-crop char land productive.
CropsSynchronised cultivation, with tray-raised seedlings planted by rice transplanters at the same time, is being introduced in the hills of Matiranga, Khagrachhari.
CropsFounded in 2017, Dutch egg producer Kipster feeds its hens food waste instead of grain, avoids killing male chicks and runs its farms on solar power.
CropsAfter two years of research, the Rahmatpur Regional Agricultural Research Station has grown off-season BARI watermelons on floating beds over water hyacinth-covered ponds.
CropsFarmers in Sundarganj, Gaibandha, have started planting rice with transplanters, cutting the cost of planting a bigha from about Tk 2,000 to Tk 300 amid labour shortages.
CropsTwelfth-grade student Monjurul Ahsan of Sharsha, Jashore, is growing hybrid cucumbers on 50 decimals with polythene mulching and employing five to seven people.
