EnvironmentForest department officials rescued three Himalayan griffon vultures that could not fly from maize fields in Patgram, Lalmonirhat, on the morning of 14 January 2026, and were arranging to send them to the vulture care centre in Dinajpur.
CropsA woman in Guabaria village of Patuakhali Sadar planted about 200 jujube grafts on 20 decimals of fallow riverside land; she told Jagonews24 in January 2026 that the orchard turned a profit in its second year.
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.
AgribusinessCustoms at Benapole land port said they found Indian hilsa in a consignment declared as freshwater fish on the night of 13 January 2026 and seized it; customs put the hilsa's market value at about Tk 30 lakh.
FisheriesIn mid-January 2026, traders at Chandpur's Baro Station ghat, one of the country's main hilsa landing centres, said daily supply had fallen below 20 maunds against 150 to 200 in past years, while a one-kilogram hilsa sold for Tk 4,000 to Tk 4,500 and buyers left without buying.
CookingJagonews24's recipe of 14 January 2026 cooks beef or goat slowly in one covered pot with ghee, tomatoes, ginger, green chillies and black pepper, leaving out garam masala and ground spices so the meat's own flavour leads.
Union-level agricultural extension and advice centres built in Joypurhat in the 1980s have been left to decay, and farmers say they have lost a key source of advice.
Losses on mango are pushing hundreds of farmers in Chapainawabganj, the country's best-known mango district, towards jujube as a cheaper and quicker-paying crop.
CookingOn 14 January 2026 Jagonews24 published a home recipe for cauliflower korma: florets cooked in an onion, ginger, garlic, tomato and spice base and softened with yoghurt and coconut, to eat with rice or roti.
French farmers took hundreds of tractors down the Champs-Élysées to the parliament building in Paris over the EU-Mercosur trade deal and other grievances.
The Buragauranga river in coastal Patuakhali is the centre of livelihoods, farming and culture for people along its banks, but it now faces erosion, encroachment and silting.
AgrotechIn January 2026 a polynet house in Akkelpur upazila of Joypurhat, set up under a Department of Agricultural Extension project for Rajshahi division, was selling vegetable and flower seedlings raised in cocopeat, and farmers who had planted them told Jagonews24 their crops had done well.
Tender duck, thick gravy and the mellow taste of coconut make narikeli hash a festive winter lunch with rice.
