CropsOn 18 June 2025 the National Seed Board approved three new varieties from the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute: salt-tolerant Aman BRRI dhan112, high-yielding Boro BRRI dhan113 and blast-resistant Boro BRRI dhan114.
The monsoon month of Asharh brings a busy time on the farm, and aus rice fields need weeding, pest control and careful seed storage.
An early flood has submerged low-lying paddy in Pabna's Chatmohar and Bhangura upazilas, while a shortage of seasonal workers over Eid has left farmers struggling to bring in the harvest.
The Asian Development Bank plans to invest more than $1.5 billion from 2025 to 2030 to expand low-carbon rice production in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Pakistan and the Philippines.
A feature follows sharecropper Gafur Mia through the boro harvest and asks whether society gives farmers the dignity they deserve.
Villagers of Nayani in Khulna's Koyra upazila protested against a bid to let river saline water into farmland for shrimp enclosures after they switched back to rice.
A Jamalpur newspaper editor argues that drying paddy on roads and piling straw beside them endangers travellers and needs local rules and alternatives.
A new irrigation policy has cut boro rice farming in the Barind region by over 10,000 hectares, but a double-lifting project to bring Padma water offers farmers hope.
Teachers and staff of a girls' school in Gaibandha cut ripe paddy on school land held by a local Awami League leader, and both sides accuse each other over ownership.
A harvest-end festival was held in Sunamganj, where 100 per cent of the haor boro paddy, worth Tk 5,000 crore, has been brought home this season.
A good Boro crop in Sherpur has run into an acute shortage of harvest labour, with a day's wage now worth more than a maund of paddy.
Farmers in Gaibandha say neck blast is emptying their ripening Boro rice panicles and that pesticides bought from local shops are not helping.
A Bangladesh Agricultural University project says alternating three days of flooding with four days of drainage can reduce arsenic in rice by up to 40 per cent without cutting yields.
