LivestockTwo Limpopo brothers sell backyard eggs to fellow students between lectures
Phuti and Dumisani Maake started Maake Poultry in 2024 with about R40,000 and 200 layer chicks; they deliver eggs on campus and want 20 hectares to expand.
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CookingA weekend khichuri with green peas and boiled eggs
Polao rice, mung or masoor dal, fresh green peas and boiled eggs make an easy one-pot khichuri. Ingredients and method, step by step.
VegetablesDhaka vegetable prices hold steady as potatoes drop to Tk 25 and eggs ease
Good supply kept vegetable prices steady at Dhaka's Shewrapara and Taltola markets on Thursday. Potatoes fell Tk 5 to Tk 25 a kg, eggs eased, and Sonali cock chicken rose Tk 20.
LivestockBeef costs Tk 587.50 a kilo to produce, an egg Tk 10.81, ministry tells MPs
The fisheries and livestock ministry told a parliamentary committee that a kilo of beef costs Tk 587.50 to produce and an egg Tk 10.81, and the committee asked for checks on how far market prices exceed those costs.
AgrotechMeala triples pea protein output in Europe to replace 82,000 eggs a day
The Israeli food tech startup has moved to full-scale production in France and Germany of pea proteins that bind, gel and foam like eggs, as egg prices in Europe stay volatile.
LivestockBroilers sell for Tk 190 a kg in Dhaka but farmers get Tk 134, and eggs show a Tk 53 gap
Broiler chicken costs Tk 190 a kg and brown eggs Tk 155 a dozen in Dhaka, but farm-gate prices are Tk 134 and Tk 102; with feed and medicine costs rising, small poultry farmers are losing money.
LivestockBrazil's egg exports rise 29% in September as Chile becomes top buyer
Brazilian egg shipments reached 2,686 tonnes in September, ABPA says, while the January-September total is down 34% because of last year's exceptional US purchases during its bird flu outbreak.
LivestockKenya's street-corner egg shows what better hens, vaccines and feed can do for nutrition
ILRI traces the 'nigongee' egg sold at Nairobi bus stops back to the hens, mostly kept by women, and to research on Newcastle vaccination, improved breeds, enriched feed and food safety.
OpinionIndia's protein boom leaves a question: who can afford it?
India's protein market is put at about Rs 15,300 crore in 2026, yet egg prices rose 35-40% in a year. A Down To Earth column by Swasti Pachauri asks whether affordable protein is slipping out of reach of poorer households.
Daily lifeManitoba food bank use hits a record, and farmers supply more than two million pounds
Food bank use in Manitoba has doubled in five years. Harvest Manitoba says over two million of the 13.4 million pounds it handed out last year came straight from agriculture, from vegetables to 3,600 dozen eggs a month.
LivestockNC State gets $3.5 million for a national egg research and training centre
A USDA grant matched by industry and partners gives NC State $7 million to set up the National Egg Science and Technology (NEST) Program, with a commercial-scale layer research farm and a processing and training centre.
LivestockBAU professor calls for farm-style subsidy for poultry as an egg costs Tk 10-11 to produce
Bangladesh produces 25.9 billion eggs a year against demand of 18.55 billion, but feed prices and disease are pushing up costs, a World Egg Day seminar at Bangladesh Agricultural University heard, along with a call for more vets in each upazila.
OpinionEgg output has quadrupled since 2011, but children still miss out: a column
Writing for World Egg Day, A K M Humayun Kabir of Chattogram Veterinary and Animal Sciences University says egg output rose from 6.08 billion in 2010-11 to 24.41 billion in 2024-25, and that the gain now has to reach children's diets.