Market ManagementOn 25 September 2024 the Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection said 54 of its teams had fined 106 firms Tk 6 lakh 48 thousand in market drives across 48 districts, aimed at keeping the prices of hilsa, eggs, chicken, onions, potatoes and other essentials stable.
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.
White diarrhoea mainly strikes chicks and can spread to hens; clean housing and the right medicine can treat and prevent it.
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.
A nearly month-long heatwave has damaged boro rice, jute and fruit crops and hit poultry and cattle farmers hardest.
The Bangladesh Poultry Association warns that chicken deaths in the heatwave could cause egg and chicken prices to soar from August to October.
More than 150 chickens on a schoolboy's rooftop farm in Gangni, Meherpur, died after miscreants cut the power, the family says.
Poultry farming has transformed the village of Swarnakartila in Khagrachhari's Matiranga, but farmers complain of no electricity, tolls and rising costs.
A cold spell with dense fog is damaging winter crops and boro seedbeds across Bangladesh, while poultry and livestock output has fallen.
Founded 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.
At a home in Kalmakanda, Netrokona, a pet fox named Lalu eats and sleeps alongside ducks, chickens and goats.
Village heads in Bhangura, Pabna fined two men Tk 4,65,000 over the alleged theft of a single sack of poultry feed from a farm.
The Consumers Association of Bangladesh demanded strict punishment for traders who made crores of taka through a broiler chicken syndicate.
