FlowersThree years ago young people in Chhoto Maheshpur village planted red water lily seedlings in a pond beside the Birampur-Nawabganj road. With regular care the whole pond is now covered in blooms.
HealthDinajpur nutritionist Lina Akter says hygiene, safe water, cooking and storing at the right temperature and five other steps cut the risk of food contamination.
VegetablesIn Khansama, Dinajpur, farmer Moyej Uddin grew the hybrid Early-45 summer bean on 22 decimals with help from an extension project and expects to sell Tk 75,000 to 80,000 worth; the DAE has supplied the seed in all 13 upazilas of the district.
VegetablesDinajpur Sadar has 250 hectares under hyacinth bean this year, with a 2,500-tonne target; farmers who picked before winter got Tk 200 a kilogram at first and Tk 70 to 80 now.
Dinajpur's aman crop covers 273,750 hectares against a target of 272,270; the district aims for about 8 lakh tonnes of rice, with early varieties to be harvested from mid-Kartik.
BangladeshBangladesh's first agro-ecological zone stretches across Panchagarh, Thakurgaon and north-western Dinajpur on land laid down by an ancient Tista river fan. Its light, acidic soils set the rules for farming, and researchers say satellite data and machine learning will help farmers only when they are checked in real fields.
The district's 34,540 livestock farms, 3,072 poultry farms and 42,124 fish farmers feel the squeeze; poultry farmer Mominul Islam is feeding 60 sacks a month instead of 70 and his broilers are not reaching weight, while dealer Arjun Prasad blames maize prices and the gas and power shortage.
A PhD study by Md Shafiqul Islam in the genetics and plant breeding department of Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University, Dinajpur, has selected hybrids that hold bottle-gourd yields under high temperatures; supervisor Professor Dr Md Hasanuzzaman says they will underpin future vari
Madrasa student Minhaj Uddin of Bochaganj in Dinajpur has earned lakhs from coloured watermelons grown on 50 decimals of land, selling them to superstores in three districts.
Border Guard Bangladesh says a joint operation in Chirirbandar, Dinajpur, seized about 5.7kg of snake venom and arrested four people, with the total seizure valued at Tk 38.57 crore.
In Dinajpur's Bochaganj, the upazila health complex has become the first port of call for snakebite victims, curing every patient in recent weeks with timely antivenom.
For the first time, ostrich eggs laid at a mini zoo in Parbatipur, Dinajpur, have produced healthy chicks, six of which are thriving at about six weeks old.
Dinajpur's Bedana litchi, now recognised as a geographical indication product, has a history of some 250 years that local tradition traces to one farmer in Mashimpur village.
