Started as a Hobby, Pigeons Now Pay for Yamin's Education
A Bhola college student who started rearing pigeons as a hobby now sells enough squabs to pay for his studies and pocket money.
A Bhola college student who started rearing pigeons as a hobby now sells enough squabs to pay for his studies and pocket money.
Winter is setting in, and a few preparations can protect pet birds from cold-related problems and illness.
A 22-year-old college student in Sonatala, Bogura, has turned his love of plants into a nursery that earns him Tk 40,000 to 50,000 a month.
Teacher-turned-grower Mridul Biswas of Pabna bags his late-variety mangoes to keep them free of pests and pesticides, and sells them when prices are high.
Former power-technology engineer Afrahim Badsha Manik has followed his father into litchi farming in Biral, Dinajpur, and expects to sell about Tk 50 lakh worth of fruit this year.
A woman in Chuadanga's Damurhuda upazila has built a profitable commercial guineafowl farm that now draws visitors from far and wide.
Twelfth-grade student Monjurul Ahsan of Sharsha, Jashore, is growing hybrid cucumbers on 50 decimals with polythene mulching and employing five to seven people.
A pet bird keeper sets out how to protect cage and colony birds from cold, draughts and disease during winter.
Rabbits breed fast, fall ill rarely and are in demand, so more people in Bangladesh are rearing them both as a hobby and for income.
In a mechanical city, more people are finding comfort in indoor plants on balconies, and a few trusted online sellers are helping new gardeners.
A college student in Araihazar who began rearing chickens on his roof during the pandemic now runs a farm of about 3,000 birds.
A teacher in Dhaka who began with a single pair of budgerigars in 2011 now keeps dozens of pairs of cage birds and pigeons and runs a large hobbyist group.
Delwar Hossain, who turned to fruit farming in Mirzapur, Tangail, after his businesses failed, has sold Tk 22 lakh of fruit in two years and now has a good China orange harvest.