AgribusinessNatore jaggery festival puts local producers in front of buyers
North Bengal E-commerce Foundation held a day-long jaggery festival at the Natore district council hall, with 16 stalls of traditional jaggery and other local products.
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Bread and biscuits made in filth beside a cattle farm: Natore bakery fined Tk 2 lakh
A pure food court found the factory of Natore town's well-known Mouchak bakery making undated bread, biscuits and chanachur in dirty conditions beside a cattle farm, and fined the owner Tk 2 lakh.
AgribusinessTk 3,000 crore fund offers North Bengal farm businesses collateral-free loans at 7%
Tk 3,000 crore of Bangladesh Bank's Tk 10,000 crore agricultural refinance fund is set aside for North Bengal; entrepreneurs in farm production, storage, transport, marketing and processing can borrow up to Tk 500,000 without collateral through 39 banks.
BangladeshAEZ-05 Lower Atrai Basin: Where Water, Heavy Soils, Rice Fields and Changing Wetlands Shape Northern Bangladesh
The Lower Atrai Basin, Bangladesh's fifth agro-ecological zone, covers about 85,000 hectares of low land in Naogaon and Natore. Two-thirds of it is lowland, its heavy grey clays are acidic, and it is bound up with Chalan Beel, where fields that lie under water in the monsoon carry Boro rice in the dry season. Land use is changing fast. Satellite data and artificial intelligence can help track that change, provided every prediction is tested in farmers' fields.
CropsChewing sugarcane "Rang Bilash" earns Natore farmers up to Tk 2 lakh a bigha
Rang Bilash cane covers 126 hectares in Natore's Gurudaspur, Baraigram and Singra this year, yielding at least 1,213 tonnes of juice; growers say garlic or onion grown between the rows pays the cost of the cane.
EnvironmentMore than 50 egrets freed from poachers' traps in Chalan Beel, three hunters jailed
Volunteers of the Chalan Beel Biodiversity Protection Committee freed more than 50 egrets from traps of banana and date-palm leaves and bamboo in paddy fields of Singra, Natore, and destroyed ten traps.
FisheriesAngler lands a 13.7 kg chital in the Baranai river in Natore
A 13.7 kg chital caught on a hook and line in the Baranai at Naldanga, Natore, sold for Tk 11,475 at the local market; locals think it may have come from a fish sanctuary.
Islam123 by his voter ID, Gurudaspur's Abbas Ali still reads the Quran without glasses
Abbas Ali Pramanik, a former primary school teacher in Jogendranagar village, Gurudaspur, Natore, can barely move but recites the Quran without spectacles; neighbours want safe housing and treatment for him.
FruitsNatore mango growers report a good harvest but complain of low prices
Favourable weather gave Natore a good mango crop in 2026, but in mid-June growers told Jagonews24 that Khirsapat and Langra were fetching only Tk 40 to Tk 50 a kilogram, and that traders were demanding extra mangoes on every maund.
LivestockNatore trader loses a cow to theft at Dhaka's Shanir Akhra cattle market
Mohammad Selim, a trader from Natore who brought ten cows to Dhaka's Shanir Akhra market before Eid-ul-Azha 2026, told Jago News one of them was stolen late on 26 May; he had sold four.
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Upstream Flooding Threatens Boro Paddy in Natore's Chalan Beel
Rain and upstream flooding have pushed Atrai river water into Chalan Beel and Halti Beel in Natore at the peak of the Boro harvest, forcing farmers to rush in half-ripe paddy.
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Endangered Fishing Cat Beaten to Death in Natore
Villagers in Natore's Baraigram upazila surrounded and beat to death an endangered fishing cat they blamed for taking poultry and attacking goats.
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Natore Mangoes to Reach Markets From 15 May
Natore district administration has announced that mango picking will begin on 15 May, starting with gooti varieties, and has promised strict checks on chemical use.