LivestockWriting a day after Bangladesh's first National Livestock Week ended on 2 December 2025, a public relations officer of the Fisheries and Livestock Information Office argued that better breeds and technology have transformed the sector, but native breeds must be protected and animal protein made affordable.
AgribusinessFisheries and Livestock Adviser Farida Akhter said on 24 November 2025 that a policy would be framed to control animal feed prices, and that the government had moved to cut the price of electricity used in the sector.
Fisheries and livestock adviser Farida Akhter said buffalo are a national asset that has long been neglected, and pledged the government's utmost effort to end that neglect.
A 22-day special drive to protect mother hilsa runs from 4 to 25 October, covering four days before the Ashwini full moon and three days after the new moon, the fisheries ministry announced.
AgribusinessOn 8 September 2025 the commerce ministry allowed 1,200 tonnes of hilsa to be exported to India for Durga Puja at a minimum $12.5 a kilo, while a one-kilo hilsa cost Tk 2,500 in Dhaka; consumer group CAB and shoppers criticised the move.
A Supreme Court lawyer has asked the government to order hilsa to be sold in cut pieces in peak season so that people of all classes can afford the national fish.
A python at least seven feet long, tangled in a net guarding a vegetable field in Alikadam, Bandarban, has been rescued by the forest department.
A fishing cat that entered a village in Sitakunda, Chattogram, climbed trees and jumped into a pond when chased, and was caught in a net.
Creative Conservation Alliance has captured a camera-trap image of a leopard in a remote reserved forest of the Chittagong Hill Tracts.
On World Biodiversity Day, researcher Pavel Partha says no species in Bangladesh, from bees to elephants, has a secure life.
A nilgai injured while crossing the border fence was rescued from a maize field in Panchagarh and is being treated by livestock staff.
LivestockGumboro, nicknamed chicken AIDS, is a viral disease that destroys a young chicken's bursa and has nothing to do with human AIDS. There is no cure, so timely vaccination and farm biosecurity are what protect a flock.
LivestockA two-cow, Tk 380,000 plan for starting a small dairy farm, checked against FAO and Department of Livestock Services guidance on housing, feeding, breeding and disease prevention.
