CropsFavourable weather and little disease have Aman paddy filling well across Patuakhali, but the spread of early watermelon on char land left the district 896 hectares short of its Aman planting target.
In Galachipa, Patuakhali, farmers are growing off-season watermelons on trellises on fish-farm embankments and high ground; Palash Molla has about 1,450 fruits on 48 decimals for an outlay of Tk 40,000.
Depressions, monsoon rain and tidal water flooded low-lying parts of the coastal district and damaged Aman seedbeds and summer vegetables, but transplanting is now in full swing; a Bauphal farmer has gone from 60 to 80 kathas, and officials say a favourable season could beat the target and set a pro
Fourteen monocled cobra eggs kept and tended at an animal shelter in Kalapara, Patuakhali, have hatched for the first time after 46 days of care.
A 2.1 kg hilsa caught in the Bay of Bengal off Kuakata sold at auction for Tk 7,200, at a rate of Tk 3,625 a kg.
A single trawler landed about 80 maunds of hilsa at the Alipur-Mohipur fish port in Kalapara, Patuakhali, and the catch sold at auction for about Tk 20 lakh.
The Forest Department recovered 17 live turtles from an engine-driven steel trawler in Galachipa, Patuakhali, and detained a man named Rezaul Mridha.
Hundreds of trawlers at the Alipur-Mohipur fish port in Patuakhali cannot go to sea for hilsa because power cuts have crippled ice production.
A fishing trawler in the Bay of Bengal off Kalapara, Patuakhali, caught 46 maunds of hilsa in one haul, selling the fish at auction for Tk 48.5 lakh.
Volunteers rescued a four-foot monocled cobra from a farmer's home in Kuakata, Patuakhali, and released it in the Gangamati reserve forest.
LivestockIn July 2026 the owner of a snake venom farm in Patuakhali, Abdur Razzak Biswas, said it could collect venom worth about Tk 8 crore a month, but three months after registration with the Department of Livestock Services no drug company had offered to process it.
FisheriesOn 4 July 2026, a 2 kg 100 g hilsa netted by the trawler 'Joltorongo' in the Bay of Bengal off Kuakata sold for Tk 6,825 at auction at a depot of the Alipur fish landing centre.
FruitsAbout a third of the watermelon grown in southern Bangladesh is rind that is thrown away; researchers said in June 2026 that rind and seeds could be made into pickles, jam, oil, feed and citrulline.
