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.
HealthOn Monday 180 diarrhoea patients were in 15 hospitals in the haor district, 107 admitted in a single day; with dengue and measles, 380 are in hospital with infectious diseases.
BangladeshBangladesh is small, but its soil, water and weather change sharply from place to place. BARC divides the country into 30 agro-ecological zones. Here is what each zone is like, and how village data, satellite images and machine learning can give farmers sharper advice.
In Shibpasha haor in Ajmiriganj, Habiganj, farmers dig ponds among the paddy and grow fruit and vegetables on the banks; the union's 55 farms produce about 2,500 tonnes of fish a year worth some Tk 80 crore.
The Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture's Sunamganj sub-station is training haor farmers in regionally suited rice, mustard and groundnut varieties developed with nuclear techniques and mutation breeding.
A notable quantity of hilsa is being netted in Hakaluki, Asia largest freshwater wetland, and local markets are selling it cheaper than usual.
