Flowers
Farmers Find Colourful Days
Flower farming is spreading quickly in southwest Bangladesh, where farmers say flowers pay better than rice and a roadside market trades crores of taka in season.
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Shykh Seraj
Crops
A Wide Array of Early Winter Crops in the Southwest
Early winter vegetables are earning southwest Bangladesh farmers large profits while the grip of middlemen weakens.
Crops
In a Land of Six Seasons, Farmers' Dreams Centre on Rice
On Bengali New Year, the once-arid Barind region of Rajshahi shows how irrigation has changed rural life, though farmers still want fair rice prices.
Agrotech
A Secondary School Runs in Dilapidated Mud Rooms
More than 350 students at Sonadighi High School in Rajshahi, many from small ethnic communities, study crammed into dark mud rooms 21 years after the school was founded.
Opinion
Development Journalism: What, Why and Which Way?
Shykh Seraj explains the roots of development journalism, its role in Bangladesh's agricultural progress, and what the next generation of journalists must do.
Fruits
Sweet Malta Orchards Spread Village by Village in Pirojpur
Malta orchards are spreading across villages in Pirojpur Sadar, where marginal farmer Rebati Sikder earned about 70,000 taka from 150 trees on his homestead.
Rooftop farming
A Farming-Minded Couple Fulfils a Dream on Their Roof
In Adabor, agricultural extension officials A B M Siddique and Anwara Sharmin have turned their six-storey roof into a farm of about 60 kinds of plants.
Rooftop farming
A Housewife's Success With a Rooftop Garden
At government officers' quarters in Eskaton, Sufia Akhtar Jahan has built a rooftop garden of about 50 species that has won national recognition.
Agribusiness
Farewell to an Economist Devoted to Agriculture
Shykh Seraj pays tribute to development economist Dr Mahbub Hossain, whose work on rice research, food security and sharecropper credit shaped Bangladesh's agriculture.
Environment
A Farm on Unused Land at RAB Headquarters
At the Rapid Action Battalion headquarters in Dhaka, unused, polluted land has been turned into an organic integrated farm over three years.
Organic
Biological Pest Control Spreads Worldwide
UK-based Russell IPM, where a young Bangladeshi scientist leads research, supplies pheromone-based pest control to 145 countries as an alternative to pesticides.
Fruits
Uganda, the Kingdom of Bananas
In Uganda, where bananas are the staple and main crop, BRAC is producing tissue-culture seedlings to help farmers fight Panama disease.
Bangladesh
We Can Show That Bangladesh Is a Role Model: Sir Abed (Podcast)
BRAC founder Sir Fazle Hasan Abed says his World Food Prize honours his staff and that Bangladesh's development example will one day be recognised as a model worldwide.