One Lakh Farmers to Receive Farmer Cards on 17 September
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman will formally launch the farmer card programme in Fulgazi, Feni, on 17 September, when about one lakh farmers will receive incentive money.
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman will formally launch the farmer card programme in Fulgazi, Feni, on 17 September, when about one lakh farmers will receive incentive money.
A man in Parshuram, Feni, killed the cobra that bit his 70-year-old wife and carried it in a bag to hospital so doctors could identify the snake.
A wildlife rescue group saved a checkered keelback water snake from a homestead in Swarajpur village of Sonagazi, Feni, and will release it in the wild.
Feni district administration has prepared 224 shelters, stocked relief and rescue equipment and begun forming volunteer teams to deal with a possible flood.
Rising rivers after heavy rain in Feni and India's Tripura have revived fears in a district still scarred by the devastating flood of August 2024.
Feni's transplanted aman crop has beaten both its area and yield targets, helped by timely rain and flood silt that cut fertiliser costs.
A mobile court has fined a man named Ripon Tk 50,000 for cutting topsoil from farmland beside the Muhuri riverbank at Kalibazar in Parshuram, Feni.
A sluice gate built for Tk 60 lakh by the Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation at Badarpur in Fulgazi, Feni, lies useless, and farmers say it has become a thorn in their side.
EnvironmentOn the afternoon of 11 July 2025, Rokeya Akter Rina, 48, died after a venomous snake bit her in her kitchen in Solia village, Parshuram, Feni, where she had gone to cook once the floodwater went down.
Purple and yellow cauliflower and broccoli are now grown commercially in Feni's Dagonbhuiyan, where an entrepreneur says they fetch double the price of white.
A higher supplementary duty has pushed up prices of six imported fruits in Feni by about Tk 30 a kg, prompting traders to protest.
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University's horticulture department will distribute 20,000 free vegetable seedlings to 500 marginal farmers hit by flash floods in Cumilla and Feni.
The Ansar and Village Defence Party distributed free Aman rice seedlings to 400 flood-affected farmers in Cumilla and Feni districts.