CropsIn May 2025 farmers on the Teesta chars of Lalmonirhat, where sweet pumpkin was grown on 1,320 hectares, were pleased with a bumper harvest, but prices below the previous year's and poor marketing held back their profits.
More than 100 maize farmers in Chuadanga Sadar say their Naba Zero 55 plants produced no cobs, leaving them with heavy losses and debts.
Sightings of venomous common kraits near halls and academic buildings at Islamic University (IU) have alarmed students, whose medical centre cannot give antivenom.
Scientists hope antibodies from the blood of Tim Friede, who has deliberately taken snake venom for nearly two decades, could lead to a universal antivenom.
Guava leaf tea is winning attention for a range of reported health benefits, from digestion to blood sugar control, and is simple to make at home.
A truck carrying 400 crates of Gobindabhog mangoes ripened with chemicals was seized in Satkhira before the set marketing date, and the mangoes were destroyed.
Hilsa supply at Chandpur's Boro Station landing centre remains very low three days after a two-month fishing ban ended, while other river fish are plentiful.
The forest department will pay Tk 2,000 per kilogram of nylon snares handed in from the East Sundarbans to curb deer poaching.
Low costs, few diseases and good prices are drawing more farmers in Jhalokati to sesame, now grown on 396 hectares.
Each boro season, farm labourers gather at dawn at Nurbag in Abhaynagar, Jashore, waiting for farmers to hire them to cut paddy.
Hail in Chapainawabganj's Gomostapur and Nachole upazilas damaged paddy and mango on 248 hectares, according to the Department of Agricultural Extension.
After failing in cattle, contracting and stone trading, Sirajul Islam Rekhon of Fenchuganj built a fruit orchard that now earns him about Tk 1.5 crore a year.
Jhenaidah farmers have a bumper boro crop on more land than targeted, but rain and gusty winds at the end of April have wet the grain and complicated harvesting.
