CropsRats are cutting the panicles of a promising aman crop across Tala upazila in Satkhira. A source at the upazila agriculture office says about 5,000 hectares have been damaged.
EnvironmentThe rat snake is harmless and a farmer's friend, while the night-roaming common krait is deadly; writer Almas Tahmid explains how to tell them apart.
Darul Islam, a farmer in Fulbaria, Mymensingh, builds rat traps from bamboo, jute rope and discarded bicycle or rickshaw tubes; after catching about 300 rats on his 10 kathas in the Aus season, he sells them at Tk 100 each and neighbours are using them in Aman fields.
More than 4,500 video clips over three months show insects at 19 per cent of the fox's diet, birds 18 and rodents 8; listed as vulnerable on Bangladesh's IUCN Red List, the species has no Forest Department programme to protect it.
