Environment
Fox Bites Injure 14 in Nandail, Mymensingh, Including 11 From One Family
Fourteen people, 11 of them from one family, were hurt in fox attacks in two villages of Nandail, Mymensingh, on 21 May.
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Mymensingh
Agribusiness
45,000 More Animals Than Needed, but Buyers Scarce at Markets
Mymensingh has a surplus of sacrificial animals, but at the district's biggest cattle market buyers are scarce and farmers are getting low offers.
LivestockCow seen on third floor of Mymensingh Medical College Hospital, photo spreads online
A photograph of a black-and-white cow walking along a third-floor corridor of Mymensingh Medical College Hospital, outside the paediatric surgery department, spread on social media in May 2026. A hospital officer said the guards' lapse would be looked into and action taken.
Fruits
Imported Fruit Up by as Much as Tk 250 a kg During Ramadan
Fruit of all kinds is selling at high prices in Mymensingh's markets during Ramadan, with buyers blaming weak monitoring for rises of Tk 50-250 a kg.
AgribusinessVegetable and chicken prices fall at Mymensingh's Mechhua Bazar in Ramadan
Green chilli fell from Tk 140 to Tk 90 a kilogram and broiler chicken from Tk 180 to Tk 170 at Mechhua Bazar in Mymensingh on 26 February 2026, a week into Ramadan, buyers and sellers told Jagonews24.
Environment
Short of Food in the Forest, Monkeys Head for Villages in Groups
Around 400 monkeys in the Santoshpur forest of Phulbaria in Mymensingh are leaving the forest in groups in search of food, raiding crops and villages.
Crops
Date Farming Makes Motaleb a Crorepati
Abdul Motaleb brought date seeds home from Saudi Arabia in 2001; today his Bhaluka orchard and sapling trade earn more than Tk 50 lakh a year.
FisheriesIntegrated pangas farming in ponds: raising Thai pangas with other fish
A Jagonews24 guide of October 2017 described raising Thai pangas with tilapia, koi, galda, shing, magur and carps in one pond. Department of Fisheries manuals and statistics show how the system works and why pangas made up 13.01 percent of Bangladesh's fish output in 2015-16.
FisheriesBFRI brings 40 near-extinct native fish species back to Bangladeshi plates
By July 2025, scientists at the Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute had bred 40 near-extinct native fish species artificially, and fry of 12 of them were being produced at scale in hatcheries across the country.
Crops
Jackfruit Worth Lakhs of Taka Rots for Lack of Storage
Farmers in Bhaluka, Mymensingh, are selling jackfruit cheaply and losing lakhs of taka to rot because the area has no storage or processing facilities.
Agribusiness
Trader Dies of Snakebite in His Own Shop
A 25-year-old trader in Bhaluka, Mymensingh, died after a cobra hiding under his shop's cash box bit him on the right leg.
CropsMymensingh farmers say harvester owners overcharge to cut Boro rice
In May 2025 farmers in Mymensingh alleged that combine harvester owners were asking Tk 1,000 to Tk 1,200 to cut 10 decimals of rice, against an official rate of Tk 540, amid a labour shortage and complaints that traders took extra paddy per maund.
Environment
Sick Bear From Mymensingh Mini Zoo Being Taken to Safari Park
Wildlife officials are moving a sick bear and other animals from the mini zoo in Mymensingh's Zainul Abedin park to Bangabandhu Safari Park in Gazipur.