OrganicEight farmers and groups honoured for natural farming in Pabna
BK Foundation gave cash prizes and crests to eight farmers and organisations in Aminpur, Pabna, for safe-food and environment-friendly farming.
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FruitsFrom ten seeds to 150 trees: a Pabna farmer's Saudi date palm orchard
In 2022 Saifuddin Hiru of Atgharia planted ten date seeds as a hobby. Three years on his orchard has about 150 Mariam and Ajwa palms, and some are bearing fruit.
LivestockPabna man runs five black soldier fly farms, earns Tk 2 lakh a month
After losses on a duck farm, Shimul Hossain of Atgharia in Pabna began producing black soldier fly larvae; his five farms now employ 17 local people.
LivestockGovernment vows to break fake milk supply chain, zero-tolerance drive to start in Pabna
Commerce Minister Khandaker Abdul Muktadir said the whole chain behind fake and adulterated milk in the Pabna-Sirajganj dairy belt must be broken, not just fined, with a zero-tolerance drive to start from Pabna soon.
FlowersRed and white water lilies bloom across Pabna's beels, but their habitat is shrinking
Red and white shapla lilies are in flower on Gazna beel, Dikshi beel, Chalan beel and ponds across Pabna, but locals say filled-in wetlands, unplanned fish farming and pesticides are squeezing them out.
CropsBera char farmers grow pulses and onions at their own cost, say farm aid misses them
Farmers on the chars of Bera upazila, Pabna, say they buy their own seed and fertiliser because government incentives never reach them; the upazila agriculture officer cites a small allocation and remote land.
VegetablesBean area in Ishwardi, Pabna's 'bean capital', falls 36 percent short of target
Against a target of 1,290 hectares, about 480 hectares fewer have gone under beans in Ishwardi this season, as farmers cite costs, poor prices, fertiliser shortages and absent extension officers.
HealthMilk laced with hydrogen peroxide and fake milk from jelly and oil found in Pabna
Posing as a free health camp, consumer-protection officials in Faridpur upazila, Pabna, caught one business adding a chemical to milk and a dairy making fake milk from jelly and cooking oil.
HealthSeven decades on, Pabna Mental Hospital still has no waiting room for families
Pabna Mental Hospital, founded in 1957 and now with 500 beds, sees 100 to 150 outpatients a day but has nowhere for patients and relatives to sit or rest; the hospital says a dormitory for families is planned as part of an upgrade.
GalleryIn pictures: a white-throated kingfisher on the hunt in Pabna
The white-throated kingfisher is one of 11 kingfisher species found in Bangladesh; photographer Hasan Mahmud follows one at Balarampur in Pabna from its perch to the dive and the catch, in a Prothom Alo photo story.
Livestock
Chickens Die in Heat and Power Cuts, Pabna Poultry Farmers Face Ruin
Severe heat and long power cuts are killing chickens on Pabna's poultry farms, adding to losses from high feed and medicine prices and disease.
Crops
Rain and Waterlogging Ruin Vegetables on Hundreds of Acres in Ishwardi
Fifteen days of on-off and heavy rain have flooded hundreds of acres of vegetables in Ishwardi, Pabna, leaving crops rotting and farmers in trouble.
Fruits
Litchi Worth Tk 225 Crore Is Lost Every Year in Ishwardi
Growers in Ishwardi lose 25 to 30 percent of their litchi, worth Tk 200 to 225 crore, every year, and say modern technology, storage and a research lab could cut the loss.