FisheriesFishers in Derai, Sunamganj, say a day of netting in the haor's rivers, canals and beels now yields little native fish, and blame heavy farm chemical use, poisoning of leased beels and lost breeding grounds.
CropsAs boro land preparation begins in Kishoreganj’s haor, river police seized a boat with 108 bags of BADC DAP fertiliser in Itna; farmers say dealer supplies are not reaching them, forcing them to buy smuggled fertiliser at higher prices.
CropsFarmers in the haors of Tahirpur, Sunamganj, began sowing boro seedbeds at the start of Kartik this year, and are turning away from last year's Shakti-2 and 777 seed after traders paid less for the grain.
EnvironmentThe smooth-coated otter of Bengali nursery rhymes has almost disappeared from the country's rivers, beels and haors. Experts blame lost wetland habitat, the false belief that otters empty fish ponds, and killing for their skins.
EnvironmentBird specialist A N M Aminur Rahman recounts finding the rare migrant black-faced bunting at Tanguar Haor, Kurma tea estate and finally Kanaighat in Sylhet, and describes the species.
CropsIn Shalla, Sunamganj, haor water has drained in Ashwin instead of Kartik, and farmers fear the Boro land will dry hard before seedbeds can be sown, needing extra irrigation.
OpinionIn a Banglanews24 column, researcher Enamul Haque Arafat writes that the 2026 Haor and Wetland Conservation Act gives a framework, but saving the haors needs satellite, GIS and drone monitoring, a national haor research fund and local people's involvement. The views are the writer's own.
FisheriesBARCIK data show Netrokona's haors held at least 115 native fish species six decades ago; 61 are found today and 29 have vanished from the area.
CropsIRRI's Climate-Smart Rice Value Chain project in Bangladesh's haor region has reached 3,000 farm households directly, set up five women-run community seed banks and trained more than 2,000 farmers in agri-entrepreneurship.
AgrotechA farm mechanisation workshop in Sylhet discussed climate-resilient farming in the haor wetlands, public-private partnerships for machinery and distributing equipment to farmers at a 70 percent subsidy.
GalleryBefore autumn is out, a light mist is gathering over Sylhet's haor wetlands each afternoon; Prothom Alo photographer Anis Mahmud pictured ducks, fishers and people heading home.
AgribusinessThe $112 million CRALEP, run by LGED with Danish support, and the $212 million GREEN project, run by PKSF, aim to reach 2.5 million people with flood-proof infrastructure, early warning, finance and skills.
LivestockSunamganj's Derai upazila has 233 duck farms, many run by once-jobless young men, producing eggs worth about Tk 1.5 crore a year; farmers say water-body leaseholders block their ducks and vaccines are scarce.
