VideoBighas Upon Bighas of Colourful Roses in Savar
Rose growing has transformed villages in Savar, where Imran Hossain grows 7 bighas of Merinda roses and flowers earn two to three times more than other crops.
VideoRose growing has transformed villages in Savar, where Imran Hossain grows 7 bighas of Merinda roses and flowers earn two to three times more than other crops.
VideoAfter years in Saudi Arabia, Abu Bakkar Siddique returned home and turned three inherited bighas into a papaya orchard that transformed his life.
VideoYoung entrepreneur Hazrat Ali, the son of a marginal farmer, has built a 775-bigha farm of orchards, fish, poultry and dairy in four blocks in Sherpur Sadar.
VideoZahid, a young man from a very poor family, has built a 12-bigha malta orchard and is changing his area through lemon and malta farming.
VideoIn Madhupur, Tangail, university graduate Naeem runs a medium-sized farm of 4,300 layers and has held on through the price and supply shocks of the pandemic.
VideoAhead of the 2022 World Cup, Qatar's Al Sulaiteen complex is growing millions of flowers under shade nets to landscape the country.
VideoShykh Seraj revisits Qatar's Al Sulaiteen complex, which supplies most of Doha's flowers, and assesses the country's progress in cutting food imports.
VideoShykh Seraj visits young professional Mukul Sarkar in London, who grows crops in his garden with an automated "rain gutter growing system" that stores and uses rainwater.
VideoAfter yard farming in Germany, Syed Abdul Quaium Khasru has built a multi-purpose rooftop farm in Kalabagan, Dhaka, including an automated aquaponics system.
VideoIn Ashulia, Savar, brothers Sajib and Rajib have covered the roof of their house under construction with a hundred kinds of fruit and a collection of rare plants.
VideoBangladeshi expatriates have sparked a farming revolution in Qatar, running thousands of farms, and ask for support from the Bangladesh government.
VideoShykh Seraj reports from Madhupur, Tangail, where educated young entrepreneurs are leading commercial and technology-based farming with polynet houses and cocopeat hydroponics.
VideoStrawberry growing in Bangladesh has had mixed results, but Rajshahi grower Masud Rana has expanded from 10 katha to 8 bighas over four or five years.