GalleryFarm and nature pictures from Prothom Alo's Glimpse of 9 November: potatoes on a Teesta char, sponge gourd by a fish enclosure, the aman harvest in Faridpur and a hill woman heading to her jhum plot.
VegetablesBoats from villages around Kaptai Lake bring jhum vegetables and fruit to a market on a Rangamati road, where most sellers are women and traders put a market day's business at Tk 1-1.5 million.
Daily lifeThe fifth fair by Nagorik Uddyog and friends of indigenous communities brings oil- and spice-free cooking, bamboo shoots, hebang, pajon, sticky-rice cakes and jhum produce from the hills and plains, with women entrepreneurs holding most stalls.
CropsJhum was grown on 5,000 hectares in Rangamati this year, with targets of 12,000 tonnes of rice and 25,000 tonnes of companion vegetables. Farmers say yields are good because pests stayed away.
CropsYields are good, but orchards, teak plantations, settlements and tired soil are shrinking jhum farming in Khagrachari every year; jhum covered 1,140 hectares in FY2026-27.
Favourable weather has brought a good jhum harvest to the Bandarban hills; at Notun Romjupara in Tonkaboti union, paddy shares the slopes with marfa, maize, pumpkin and other vegetables, and the harvest festival is under way on the hilltops.
In Dighinala, Khagrachhari, 360 families hit by two rounds of flooding received Tk 6,000 each, a total of Tk 2.16 million.
CropsHill farmers in Bandarban were cutting back on jhum shifting cultivation for fruit orchards in 2026, drawn by better profits, demand and government support; in Sadar upazila orchards covered 5,302 hectares in 2025-26 against 155 hectares of jhum.
CropsA farmer in Ramnagar village of Jhenaidah Sadar grew the hill paddy Sentu Pajam 21 on high fallow land in the 2025 aman season, and said it needed under a tenth of aman's irrigation and cost Tk 7,000 to 8,000 a bigha.
CropsIn October 2021 jhum farmers in Rangamati's hills began cutting a good crop of hill paddy; some in Mogban union had planted Turki, a rice they said came from Mizoram in India, and the DAE put the district's jhum rice at 5,580 hectares.
