FisheriesJahangir Alam left the sanitary goods trade for fish farming in Mymensingh and now has more than 50 ponds and his own hatchery. His worry today is not output but rising costs and climate risk.
FruitsLemons cover more than 754 hectares in Phulbaria, Mymensingh, this year, and the agriculture office estimates sales of about Tk 95 crore for the season.
HealthOn Global Handwashing Day, hospitals, schools, colleges and slums in Mymensingh lack soap or handwash, or have too little; the medical college hospital says soap left out is stolen.
CropsThe government app meant to let farmers sell paddy straight to state warehouses will not open in Mymensingh, and agriculture officers in all 13 upazilas are reluctant to draw up farmer lists that, they say, food offices ignore.
FlowersIn three months, four young men turned the walls along about 800 feet of road in Bashbari Colony, Mymensingh, into a hanging garden of orchids, flowers and foliage plants grown in discarded buckets, mugs and baskets.
EnvironmentThe government plans to lift this year's target of 50 million trees to between 55 and 60 million, plant all year round, and favour fruit, timber and medicinal species suited to local soil and weather.
Crinum jagus, a bulbous plant from tropical Africa, flowers on Mymensingh's Bisweshwari Debi Road; each stalk carries four to twelve scented white blooms.
Easy to keep in low light, the peace lily has become a favourite of indoor gardeners; NASA's clean air research found it removes benzene and formaldehyde from indoor air.
The Forest Department's Wildlife Crime Control Unit has rescued two endangered slow lorises being smuggled in Haluaghat, Mymensingh, though the traffickers escaped.
EnvironmentOpening the Mymensingh Divisional Tree Fair 2026 on 18 July, State Minister for Disaster Management and Relief M Iqbal Hossain said special emphasis must be given to producing and planting saplings of valuable trees, and urged nursery owners to raise quality saplings for the government's target of 25 crore trees in five years.
CropsHafez Rokonuddin, a former imam from Nayanpur village in Mymensingh's Bhaluka, has built two commercial latkan orchards on four bighas and developed a selection known locally as "Nayanpuri latkan". By his own account he earns Tk 7-8 lakh a year from grafted saplings alone.
A bumper jackfruit crop in Mymensingh is bringing farmers little because there is no cold storage or processing centre, and unsold fruit is rotting.
EnvironmentShifa Akter, a 16-year-old madrasa student, died on 9 June 2026 after a cobra bit her beside the fridge at home in Phulbaria, Mymensingh. She first took little notice of the bite and was taken to hospital only when her condition worsened that afternoon.
