FisheriesOn the night of 11 October 2025, a river police task force detained 24 fishermen with their boats and nets on the Meghna and Padma in Chandpur for allegedly catching hilsa during the government's 22-day ban, which ran from 4 to 25 October.
CropsIn October 2025 farmers and homemakers on the chars of Gaibandha were growing ginger, turmeric, gourds and aubergine in soil-filled sacks on raised platforms, a method promoted by the district DAE with SKS Foundation so that flood water cannot reach the crops.
The administration in Rajbari detained nine fishermen in 24 hours for fishing in the Padma during the ban and jailed and fined them.
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Blossom end rot is a common problem for summer and early winter tomato growers, and fungicide sprays will not cure it.
To curb fraud in online hilsa sales, Chandpur's district administration has registered seven local traders to sell the fish online.
Agriculturist Ibad Ali of Jashore has developed "root technology", which uses shallow beds matched to root needs to grow up to ten times more vegetables on a rooftop.
Asaduzzaman of Chirirbandar in Dinajpur earns Tk 35,000 to 40,000 a month killing rats in farmers' paddy fields with bamboo tube traps.
Fisheries and livestock adviser Farida Akhter said buffalo are a national asset that has long been neglected, and pledged the government's utmost effort to end that neglect.
Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal has announced a two-day programme for its 47th founding anniversary on 27 October.
A dead rhinoceros carried from India by upstream floodwater has become stranded on a char of the Dudhkumar river in Kurigram.
Locals caught seven snakes, two of them venomous, inside a dilapidated community clinic in Nalchity upazila of Jhalakathi.
