EnvironmentA snake rescue team member said he took ten young padma gokhra cobras from a house in Mirsharai, Chattogram, on 31 October 2025, and that a snake he put at about 11 feet came from a rat hole in Dhum union. The forest beat officer said no one had told him about the young snakes.
A Patharghata trawler netted about 170 maunds of hilsa in one haul in the Bay of Bengal, passing some 30 maunds to another boat for lack of space.
A farmer in Mirsharai, Chattogram, has made about Tk 1 lakh profit growing summer watermelon on 50 decimals with mulching and organic methods.
Betel leaf growers in Barguna have had a good harvest but say prices are so far below costs that they are sinking under NGO loans.
CropsFarmers planting murikata onion in Rajbari in October 2025 said costs of Tk 50,000 to 60,000 a bigha meant they needed at least Tk 2,000 a maund in the season. The district target was 5,870 hectares.
Known for guava, Pirojpur now also leads Barishal division in amra, with busy wholesale markets in Nesarabad and farmers pleased with prices despite a smaller crop.
AgribusinessOn 29 October 2025 the consumer rights directorate seized 350 kg of rotten hilsa from a trawler from Monpura in Chandpur, buried the fish and fined the trawler's owner Tk 1 lakh.
EnvironmentThe Forest Department rescued a python about 11 feet long from Mastannagar in Zorarganj union, Mirsharai, after residents called its staff, and released it in the Mohamaya hill forest on 29 October 2025.
Large quantities of soft and rotten hilsa, caught in secret during the ban to protect mother hilsa, have been landed at Chandpur's fish ghat since the ban ended.
CropsCumilla's Department of Agricultural Extension expected Tk 20 to 22 crore worth of vegetable seedlings to be sold in the 2025 season, with more than 700 farmers raising seedlings on about 20 hectares around the village of Samespur.
Locals in Boda, Panchagarh, chased an unfamiliar black animal that turned out to be an endangered pangolin, now in the care of the Forest Department.
Tighter monitoring by the district administration and tea board has improved Panchagarh's tea quality, lifting green leaf prices from Tk 12 to Tk 32-35 a kg.
LivestockJagonews24 reported in October 2025 that hens' fear of people can lower egg output and harm welfare. Experiments support the link, though studies on commercial farms gave mixed results.
