Shahjahan Ali Badsha of Ishwardi, known as Pepe Badsha, turned a two-bigha plot into a 200-bigha farm and has inspired more than a hundred young men in Pabna.
Farmers in Ishwardi, Pabna, have long demanded specialised cold storage so they are not forced to sell perishable vegetables and fruit cheaply in peak season.
Encouraged by award-winning farmer Akmal Hossain, poultry farmers in Ishwardi and across Pabna are switching to colour bird chickens, which they say cost less to raise and earn more.
Farmers in Pabna say the price paddy is fetching leaves them no profit after costs, and many are turning away from rice, raising fears of lower output.
Farmers in Pabna's Ishwardi upazila could not plant aman on 270 hectares this season because of a lack of rain, with fuel and fertiliser costs deepening their troubles.
Vegetable farmers in Ishwardi, Pabna, have begun early winter crops under the weight of higher prices for seed, fertiliser, pesticide and labour.
Growers of off-season "auto" beans in Ishwardi, Pabna, have begun picking, but severe drought has cut yields while prices stay high.
The National Museum has accepted four rare dinosaur fossils, described as 70,000 years old, from PUST Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Hafiza Khatun.
Farmers in Muladuli union of Ishwardi, one of the country's main bean-growing areas, are hoping for profits from their early 'Auto' bean crop.
Pink-coloured buffalo, rare in Bangladesh, are catching the eye of Qurbani buyers at several farms near the Aronkola market in Ishwardi, Pabna.
A pigeon farmer in Chatmohar, Pabna, alleges 250 of his birds died after eating poison-laced grass seed on a neighbour's land.
Pabna's farmers are busy planting onions in a festive mood, but rising costs and falling prices have left them worried about profits.
A young contractor in Santhia, Pabna, has planted more than 3,000 fruit, timber and medicinal saplings and helped hundreds of needy people over a year and a half.
