FruitsIn a guide published by Jagonews24 on 27 March 2026, agriculture and environment specialist Samiran Biswas urged banana growers to prevent Panama disease, a soil-borne fungal wilt that is hard to control once it reaches a field.
ACI Agribusiness president Dr. F. H. Ansari says the new government should continue farm machinery subsidies, build cold chains and focus on the agricultural value chain.
EnvironmentUnder a 180-day action plan the education ministry finalised on 24 March 2026, school, college and madrasa students were to plant and tend government-supplied saplings, with marks for the work on their annual report cards.
The neglected bhenna (castor) plant, a symbol of poverty in Jasimuddin's poem, could become a source of income on Bangladesh's fallow land by replacing imported castor oil.
Three spotted deer that wandered into villages in Monpura, Bhola, apparently looking for food, were rescued and released into a protected forest.
CropsTwo spells of hail on 24 March 2026 damaged boro paddy on about 4,000 hectares across Kishoreganj, the district agriculture department's first count showed, with Mithamain and the other haor upazilas hit hardest.
Eid holiday crowds far beyond the capacity of Lawachhara National Park in Moulvibazar have littered the forest and frightened its wildlife, officials and environmentalists say.
AgrotechA Jagonews24 feature of 25 March 2026 by agriculture and environment specialist Samiran Biswas described the GFL Soil Sensor, an IoT device from Genius Farms Limited that, he wrote, reads eight soil properties and gives location-based fertiliser advice through software built on Bangladeshi data.
Built for speed in local coastal dockyards, the trawlers that carry fishermen to the hilsa grounds go through a long chain of craftsmen before they reach the sea.
A 28-year-old police driver died after apparently being bitten by a venomous snake while fishing at Nasti baor in Maheshpur, Jhenaidah.
A spotted deer carried in on the Meghna tide was rescued at Monpura in Bhola and released into a protected forest the same afternoon.
CropsMost of Bangladesh's edible oil is imported. To cut that bill, farmers across the Khulna region are growing sunflowers under the government's PARTNER project on saline land that used to lie fallow after the aman rice harvest.
Tobacco cultivation is spreading fast in Dighinala upazila of Khagrachhari, pushing out food crops and threatening the environment and public health.
