Crops
A Wealth of Fruit in the Month of Jyoishtha
The Bengali month of Jyoishtha brings more local fruit to market than any other, along with fruit festivals, family visits and a burst of seasonal trade.
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Festival
Livestock
Who Will Put Out the Fire in the Kitchen Market?
A columnist describes a trip to a Dhaka kitchen market where onions, lentils, green chillies, soybean oil and beef have all become harder to afford, and blames traders' syndicates and the government.
Crops
Hemanta's Nabanna Festival: Farmers and Labourers Busy Cutting and Threshing Paddy
As a good aman crop comes in across Naogaon, farmers prepare for Nabanna, though locals say the new-rice festival has lost much of its old character.
Environment
Centuries-Old Gopinathpur Horse Fair, the Only One of Its Kind, Gets Busy
The traditional Gopinathpur fair in Joypurhat's Akkelpur upazila has returned after two years of Covid closure, and its horse market, which organisers say is the only one in the country, is busy again.
Vegetables
Thailand's Monkey Festival Returns After Two Years
Thailand's traditional monkey festival in Lopburi has returned after nearly two years of closure because of the Covid pandemic.