A sacrificial animal market set up on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Feni is causing traffic jams, though the lease terms forbid markets on or beside highways.
Jahan Agro in Chhagalnaiya, Feni, has readied its giant bulls Sultan and Lal Bahadur, weighing 900 kg and 700 kg, among more than 400 cattle for Eid-ul-Azha.
Farmers in Feni are preparing more than 1 lakh animals for Eid-ul-Azha against demand for 80,800, hoping to turn past losses into profit.
Drought, heat and empty canals are burning Boro rice in Feni's Sonagazi, where farmers say repeated written appeals for water have brought no remedy.
Prices of every kind of chicken in Feni rose by Tk 40 to 50 a kg within a week, which sellers blame on higher feed prices.
An injured Himalayan griffon vulture held by villagers in Sonagazi, Feni, has been rescued and handed to a local wildlife group for treatment.
Two thousand five hundred 12-day-old chicks died at a poultry farm in Sonagazi, Feni, and poultry doctors could not establish the cause.
Wild dogs killed 175 sheep worth an estimated Tk 20 lakh at a farm in Sonagazi, Feni, and farmers say the livestock officer was slow to respond.
Farmers across Feni's six upazilas are busy growing early winter vegetables in the hope of higher prices at the start of the season.
About 800 broiler chickens died on a poultry farm in Sonagazi, Feni, during intense heat and load-shedding, causing a loss of about Tk 2 lakh.
Capsicum, a foreign vegetable, is now grown commercially in Sonagazi, Feni, where officials say farmers earn more than double their costs.
The skilfully woven nests of weaver birds, once seen on palm trees across the countryside, are disappearing because of environmental degradation.
