How Biotechnology, AI and Drone Technology Are Helping Bangladesh's Agriculture
Biotechnology, AI and drones could help Bangladesh's farming withstand climate threats, but the country is still at an early stage in biotechnology.
Biotechnology, AI and drones could help Bangladesh's farming withstand climate threats, but the country is still at an early stage in biotechnology.
At Dhaka's National Tree Fair, entrepreneur Rakibul Amin has built a small village-style green corner that lets visitors forget the city's traffic, concrete and dust.
Bangladesh has quadrupled rice output, but SOFI 2026 shows millions cannot afford a healthy diet, and the writer argues food security must now be measured on the plate.
EnvironmentOn the morning of 28 July 2026 the forest department rescued a python nearly 10 feet long beside a settlement at Char Phulbari in Ulipur, Kurigram, and said it would go to Rangpur Zoo after health checks.
CropsOn 26 July 2026 the Bangladesh Embassy in Kathmandu hosted a mango festival, "Bangladesh Mango Delicacy", showing late-season mangoes from the Rajshahi region and processed mango products to about 250 guests.
A 30-bigha integrated farm and agro-tourism project in Bogura has handed land deeds to its 1,000 founder-owners and raised its share price.
The government will pay Tk 25,000 for each cow and Tk 10,000 for each goat or sheep that died in the floods, the disaster management minister announced in Chattogram.
EnvironmentSitesh Ranjan Deb, founder chairman of the Bangladesh Wildlife Service Foundation in Sreemangal and a familiar face of the country's wildlife-conservation movement, died at his home on 14 July 2026. He was 75.
Fresh Move, an AI-based startup founded by two Bangladeshi and one Malaysian graduate of the University of Malaya, aims to modernise Malaysia's farm produce supply chain.
Floods, landslides, typhoons and heatwaves from Bangladesh to Europe are being linked to El Nino, which the World Meteorological Organization warns will grow stronger in the coming months.
Md Rakibul Amin, owner of Gardening Bangladesh, is being honoured in the National Tree Planting Award 2025 for a decade of greening Dhaka's rooftops, balconies and offices.
EnvironmentNijhum Dwip in Noakhali had 22,000 spotted deer in 1996, but habitat loss, poaching, predators and food shortages cut the herd below 2,000 by 2015; a Jagonews24 article in July 2026 called for action to save them.
FruitsOn 30 June 2026 Bangladesh sent 1,100 kg of mangoes to West Bengal and Tripura through the Benapole and Akhaura land ports, including 100 kg each for Chief Ministers Suvendu Adhikari and Dr Manik Saha.