AgrotechYoung entrepreneur Sanjidul Islam's biogas plant in Bhedarganj, Shariatpur, turns about 3,000 kg of cow dung a day into cooking gas, piped 1.5 km to around 30 households, and sells the leftover slurry as organic fertiliser.
Growers in Shariatpur are planting into moist soil with no ploughing to cut costs, while worrying about seed and fertiliser prices.
FisheriesDuring the 22-day ban to protect spawning hilsa, fish are being sold openly on the Padma bank at Zajira, Shariatpur; the upazila fisheries officer says the department has no speedboat and too few staff for regular drives.
Homestead farmingIn Khankandi, Zajira, Irin Akter planted ginger in 200 sacks and expects to sell about Tk 40,000 worth after costs; each sack yields one to one and a half kilos.
VegetablesIn the rainy season, low-income people in Shariatpur gather wild water lilies from beels and low land at dawn and sell bundles of 10 to 12 stems for Tk 10 to 20.
EnvironmentA day after cracks appeared near Sureshwar fish market in Naria, Shariatpur, about 20 metres of the three-year-old Padma bank-protection embankment slid into the river on Thursday evening.
LivestockThree days before Eid-ul-Azha 2026, a Totapuri goat named 'Sanchay' drew crowds at the Monohar Bazar cattle market in Shariatpur Sadar. Its owner, Kamrul Hasan, asked Tk 1.2 lakh but had not found a buyer at that price by 25 May.
Three pink cassia trees planted beside the Shariatpur district model mosque in 2023 have flowered for the first time, drawing bees and flower lovers.
Monkeys that have lived in Shariatpur villages for 50 years are raiding homes and snatching food as fruit trees disappear, and residents want the government to feed them.
The traditional Jor Machh Mela, at least 200 years old, has again been held at Manohar Bazar in Shariatpur, where visitors buy a pair of hilsa and aubergines at the start of Magh.
Betel leaf prices in Shariatpur keep falling, leaving growers unable to recover production costs and calling for government incentives.
Farmers in Shariatpur are increasingly planting garlic without tilling the soil in fields just cleared of aman paddy, drawn by lower costs and an early harvest, though rising fertiliser and pesticide prices are a worry.
An assistant commissioner (land) and an upazila fisheries officer faced an attempted attack while seizing a trawler during a mother hilsa drive in Gosairhat, Shariatpur.
