Fisheries
Cook a Tasty Cucumber and Shrimp Dish in Minutes
A quick recipe for cucumber and shrimp, a light dish to serve with rice or pulao on hot days.
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Fisheries
Hundreds of Maunds of Jatka Caught With Bamboo Barriers on the Padma
Temporary bamboo barriers built across the Padma at Sadarpur in Faridpur are being used to catch hundreds of maunds of jatka, young hilsa, every day.
Fruits
Buyers Struggle to Afford Even Guava, Jujube, Pineapple and Sapodilla
Fruit prices in Jhenaidah have risen sharply since the start of Ramadan, with local fruit nearly doubling in price.
Crops
Serve Ash Gourd With Red Lentils at Sehri
A light and healthy dish of red lentils with ash gourd for sehri, with the recipe.
Flowers
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman at Tejgaon Office, Plants Flower Sapling
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman came to work at the Prime Minister's Office in Tejgaon for the first time and planted a swarnachampa sapling there.
Crops
Demand Pushes Up Tangail Lemon Prices
Lemon prices in Tangail have more than doubled in a week as demand for iftar sharbat rises in Ramadan while supply is low out of season.
Fruits
Fruit Prices Soar in Naogaon, Low-Income Buyers Go Home Empty-Handed
Local and imported fruit prices in Naogaon have risen by Tk 20 to 80 a kg in three days, leaving many poor buyers unable to afford fruit for iftar.
AgribusinessRamadan Price Rises and the Farm-Gate Gap: Why Growers Lose Out
In a Jagonews24 column published on 20 February 2026, the day after Ramadan began, Rajshahi College student Abu Rayhan argued that poor planning and weak monitoring, not demand alone, push prices up every Ramadan while farmers still sell their crops cheaply.
CookingPotato soup for iftar: ingredients, method and health authorities' advice
During Ramadan, on 20 February 2026, Jagonews24 published an iftar recipe for a blended potato soup made with milk, cream and cheese; health authorities' advice on soup and potatoes at iftar is added.
Fruits
In Gaibandha, Only Bananas and Guavas Are Within Ordinary Buyers' Reach
Fruit prices in Gaibandha have jumped by Tk 50 to 150 a kg during Ramadan, leaving many low- and middle-income buyers going home empty-handed.
Crops
Mango Blossoms Cover Trees Across Narail
Mango trees across Narail have come into early blossom, and growers are busy with care in hope of a bumper crop if the weather holds.
CropsAssasuni farmers allege salt water let into beel by sluice gate, boro at risk
Farmers in Pratapnagar and Tentulia, in Satkhira's Assasuni upazila, alleged in February 2026 that influential shrimp enclosure owners were using a drainage sluice gate to let salt water into a beel, which they said put boro paddy on 80 to 100 bigha at risk. Officials said they would act if misuse was proved.
FruitsZahedi, the 'cheap' date, costs more in Chattogram on the eve of Ramadan
The price of Zahedi dates rose at Chattogram's Fruitmandi market in February 2026; traders blamed a Bangladesh-bound container ship that sank off Phuket, while most other dates were cheaper than a year earlier.