Fields of green aman paddy stretch across the five districts of the Rangpur region, where early varieties are already being harvested and a bumper crop is expected despite two floods.
VideoAn entrepreneur in Rajshahi is growing nutritious spirulina in tanks in his yard, though experts say more research is needed on how sustainable such farming is.
VideoShykh Seraj reports on young industrialist Abdullah Zaber's biofloc fish farm, built inside his industrial complex to supply fish to the Noman Group's 70,000 workers.
VideoIn Bashundhara, retired government official Hasanuzzaman Talukder's 2,700 sq ft rooftop farm supplies almost all the vegetables for his two-person household.
VideoA sudden hot wind lasting a few hours left Boro rice sterile on at least 21,000 hectares in 21 districts in 2021, devastating haor farmers in Netrokona and Kishoreganj.
Shykh Seraj writes that Bangladesh wasted its head start against the coronavirus and urges testing, isolation, coordinated planning and a fresh look at health spending.
A Barind Multipurpose Development Authority canal project has ended waterlogging on more than 16,000 hectares in Naogaon, benefiting more than 1.5 lakh farmers in six upazilas.
At events across Bangladesh, speakers demanded state recognition for women farmers, who make up more than 10.5 million of the country's 25.6 million farm workers.
Women working in agriculture must get state recognition as farmers, and every government programme to help farmers must include a quota for women.
BINA's grass pea variety Binakhesari-1, safe for human consumption, has given a bumper yield of 1,600 kg a hectare in Gopalganj.
The cabinet has approved the draft National Agricultural Extension Policy 2020, aimed at climate-resilient, safe and profitable crop production.
Scientists at the Jashore regional agricultural research centre will supply BARI-1 onion seed so farmers can sow seed directly instead of costly bulbs.
Three-crop farmland in Raninagar, Naogaon, is being turned into ponds to supply soil to brick kilns, shrinking the upazila's farmland at an alarming rate.
