VegetablesCauliflower is usually fried, curried or made into soup, but simmered with rice, milk and date palm jaggery it also makes a payesh. Here is the recipe Jagonews24 published in December 2025, with its ingredients and steps.
FruitsThe winter sap season raises the risk of Nipah virus in Bangladesh. WHO puts the death rate at 40 to 75 percent, and not drinking raw date palm sap is the main protection.
CropsIn a column of 19 December 2025, Rajshahi College student Sushree Sarkar argued that rising farm output had not yet brought safe, nutritious and balanced diets within reach of many Bangladeshis, and called for food and nutrition security to be made a national priority.
VegetablesA rooftop garden that Nazmun Nahan began as a hobby about five years earlier was giving her family in Dhaka's Bashundhara fresh vegetables almost every day, Jagonews24 reported in December 2025.
The Economist Intelligence Unit expects global food prices to keep easing in 2026, led by rice, while labour, aid and environmental rules bring new challenges.
CropsIn mid-December 2025 early mustard varieties covered about 1,555 hectares in Chandpur's Matlab upazila, the agriculture office said, and farmers and honey collectors expected a good season if the weather held.
FruitsUnknown people cut down 117 of the 133 young mango trees in farmer Saidur Rahman's orchard at Nowhata in Rajshahi's Paba upazila on the night before 17 December 2025. He filed a written complaint, and police said they were investigating.
A Gangni farmer has turned 18 katha of land into a plot of 26 native and seasonal vegetables, cutting his risk and raising his income.
FisheriesIn a Jagonews24 opinion piece of 17 December 2025, writer Md. Rahmat Ullah argued that fish and poultry feed makers should answer to the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock alone, not to both it and BSTI.
The yellow mustard flowers that fill winter fields are also a nutritious food, rich in vitamins, minerals and antioxidants.
Feni's transplanted aman crop has beaten both its area and yield targets, helped by timely rain and flood silt that cut fertiliser costs.
Bangladesh's Forest Department is offering wildlife research grants for the first time, with Tk 50 lakh to be distributed this year.
Twin sisters from a Dinajpur village have both won places at medical colleges, easing their parents' worries about their three daughters' future.
