GalleryCoffee beans drying in a Bandarban yard, a Faridpur farmer tending murikata onions, ducks on a Nikli haor at dusk and fog over Panchagarh: the day's farm and nature pictures from Prothom Alo's photographers.
LivestockTwenty-three years ago Bibi Rahima of Darbeshpur in Noakhali Sadar hatched 10 borrowed duck eggs under a hen; today her farm of about 16 acres has fish enclosures, cattle and goats, over 500 ducks, 350 chickens and vegetables.
LivestockShahin, formerly unemployed, of Gayerpara in Naogaon Sadar bought 700 ducks four months ago and raises them on an open beel; the flock lays at least 500 eggs a day, for a net profit of about Tk 5,250 a day after costs.
Dilruba Khatun of Meherpur now keeps about 1,000 ducks and hatches some 2,000 ducklings a week in a 36,000-egg incubator, three years after starting with Tk 30,000.
LivestockFazlur Rahman of Darugram, Kusumbi, keeps ducks on one side of a 24-decimal pond and fish on the other, and grazes the flock on harvested rice fields to save on feed.
Pallab Gain of Bajua Chararhar village in Khulna's Dakop upazila runs about 1,000 ducks and four improved-breed cows with his father; eggs sell at about Tk 15 and a duck costs about Tk 450 to raise to lay; the livestock department counts some 220 duck farms in the upazila, with women favouring the P
The Bangladesh Wildlife Service Foundation has rescued two jungle cat kittens that residents caught when they came after ducks at a house in Sreemangal.
Ducks dominate the weekly Sunday animal and bird market in Tongi, where a pair sells for Tk 800 to 1,200.
Ducks kept vanishing from a farm in Zhangzhou, China, until the culprit turned out to be a python several metres long, which was later released in remote hills.
LivestockA Directorate of Primary Education letter of 29 July 2026 asked schools to encourage primary pupils to help their parents rear ducks, chickens and other domestic animals, and to be kind to all animals.
A 1997 experiment with a hurricane lamp and rice husk has turned Maheshrauhali in Sirajganj's Tarash upazila into one of the country's biggest duckling markets, now hatching 12 to 15 lakh ducklings a day.
FisheriesIn a Jagonews24 opinion piece of 17 December 2025, writer Md. Rahmat Ullah argued that fish and poultry feed makers should answer to the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock alone, not to both it and BSTI.
LivestockAround 2,000 farms in Kishoreganj's haor region were raising more than 25 lakh ducks and producing about 2 crore eggs a year in November 2025, but farmers said veterinary help was slow to reach them.
