Crops
"Fosholi" Brings a New Message to Agriculture
In a column, Shykh Seraj describes Fosholi, ACI's digital farm advisory platform using satellite images and weather data, and why farmer training is key to making it work.
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Agriculture
AgrotechYoung Bangladeshi Wins Recognition in Korea for Smart Fish-Farming Device
Bangladeshi software engineer Shafiul Alam has won an international award for a Smart Aerator with Auto Feeding System, shown at a large innovation exhibition in South Korea.
Opinion
What Agriculture Needs in the Election Manifestos
Drawing on his Agriculture Budget, Farmers' Budget sessions, Shykh Seraj set out ten farm priorities he wanted in the 2018 election manifestos.
FruitsLED Lights Give Dragon Fruit Growers Ten Months of Harvest a Year
A young farmer in Guangdong uses rows of LED lights to lengthen the day, extending his dragon fruit season by four months.
CropsSaidur Rahman's Allotment Farming in Newham, East London
In Newham, East London, Bangladeshi expatriates are making the most of council allotment plots, growing crops from home on small parcels of land.
FruitsThe Country's Largest Malta Orchard in Damurhuda, Chuadanga
In Damurhuda, Chuadanga, Shakhawat Hossain Babul has built what he and experts say is the country's largest malta orchard, with 4,000 trees on 40 bighas.
FlowersWorld-Class Polynet Houses Bring Commercial Gerbera Farming to Bangladesh
In Bhaluka, Mymensingh, a private industrial group went from building polynet houses to marketing gerbera within a year, growing 12 varieties on 12 bighas.
Opinion
"Returning to Roots" Around the World: Lessons From Stone Barns
Shykh Seraj describes a visit to Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture in New York, where children and students learn farming from field to plate.
Environment
A Bangladeshi Behind Qatar's Many Greening Efforts
Shykh Seraj visits a vast Dutch-owned nursery in Qatar managed by Abdul Karim of Kulaura, and sees an export opening for Bangladesh.
Environment
Farmer-Friendly Lightning Protection
With farmers making up most lightning deaths, a young engineer in Dhamrai has built a movable earthed lightning conductor for fields, and experts add safety rules.
Livestock
Plantain: A Safe, Antibiotic-Free Livestock Feed
Researcher Dr Al Mamun has adapted plantain, a medicinal herb used as dairy feed in New Zealand, to Bangladesh as an alternative to antibiotic growth promoters.
Agribusiness
An Industrialist's Success With a Hobby Farm
A garment industrialist who turned to farming as a hobby has built a 35-bigha integrated organic farm in Narayanganj that supplies his own workers.
Agribusiness
Boithakata Floating Market, a Tradition of the South
In Nazirpur, Pirojpur, the Boithakata floating market on the Belua river is the main trading centre for thousands of river-bound farm families.