Crops
Ways to Keep Your Farm Safe From Bird Flu
Cleaning and disinfecting everything on a poultry farm, and burning infected waste, can help protect ducks and chickens from bird flu.
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Chicken Rearing
Livestock
Crores in Assets Turned to Waste in Moments: Feni's Poultry Farmers After the Flood
Floods in Feni wiped out poultry farms across Sonagazi, leaving farmers with dead birds, rotten eggs, debts to companies and bank loans they cannot repay.
Crops
Where Should You Set Up a Poultry Farm?
Poultry is a profitable business, and picking the right site for the farm is one of the first steps to making it pay.
Rooftop farming
Flood Washes Away Fish and Poultry Farms in Feni
Farmers in Feni's Daganbhuiyan upazila say the flood has wiped out their poultry and fish farms, with individual losses of seven to eight lakh taka.
Fisheries
Livestock Adviser Promises Help for Flood-Hit Farmers
Fisheries and Livestock Adviser Farida Akhter visited flood-damaged fish and poultry farms in Chauddagram, Cumilla, and promised full support to the farmers.
Crops
How to Prevent White Diarrhoea in Chickens
White diarrhoea mainly strikes chicks and can spread to hens; clean housing and the right medicine can treat and prevent it.
Rooftop farmingRooftop Farming on the Cox's Bazar District Administration Building
In fast-growing Cox's Bazar, the district administration has kept a 12,000 sq ft rooftop farm on its three-storey building for four years.
Fisheries
Syndicate sends animal feed market out of control, farmers quitting
Small livestock, poultry and fish farmers say a handful of feed makers are pushing up prices at will, even as the main raw materials have got cheaper, and many have closed their farms.
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Caring for Livestock in the Month of Jaistha
With heat rising in the Bengali month of Jaistha, livestock and poultry need special care, including vaccination and preparation for the monsoon.
Agribusiness
Chickens Dying in the Heat; Fears of a 'Severe' Price Rise in August
The Bangladesh Poultry Association warns that chicken deaths in the heatwave could cause egg and chicken prices to soar from August to October.
Livestock
150 Chickens Die After Farm's Power Is Cut in Meherpur
More than 150 chickens on a schoolboy's rooftop farm in Gangni, Meherpur, died after miscreants cut the power, the family says.
Livestock
Former Bureaucrat Milon, Annoyed by Crowing Roosters, Threatens Neighbour with Police
A retired additional secretary pressed neighbours to get rid of their roosters, threatening police action, and says he was protesting noise pollution.
Crops
Poultry Farming Changes Fortunes in Khagrachhari Village
Poultry farming has transformed the village of Swarnakartila in Khagrachhari's Matiranga, but farmers complain of no electricity, tolls and rising costs.