LivestockIn February 2025 Kurigram's district livestock department said more than 600 of the farmers on the district's roughly 6,000 duck farms were raising fast-growing Pekin ducks, creating work for rural women and men.
Salt farmers and traders poured salt on the Cox's Bazar-Chattogram highway at Chakaria to demand a fair price for locally produced salt.
Farmers in Jhalakathi expect a bumper crop of khesari, grown by relay cropping on 7,495 hectares of aman land at little cost.
With winter over and cauliflower leaving the market, here are nine Bengali cauliflower dishes to cook while the season lasts.
Once seen everywhere, vultures are now nearly extinct in Bangladesh, and experts warn they could vanish within a few years unless the species is protected.
Low costs and good prices are drawing more Shariatpur farmers to coriander, with this season's area of 6,280 hectares beating the target.
A breach in the Bil Harina embankment in Monirampur, Jashore, has submerged about 1,200 bighas of boro paddy and flooded fish enclosures.
A former footpath coconut seller has turned to commercial capsicum farming in Joypurhat's Khetlal, and neighbouring farmers now plan to follow him.
The Federal Reporters Society, supported by Gulf Oil, is planting 1,000 trees along the Dhaka-Tangail four-lane highway to protect the environment.
A sudden storm lasting just 30 seconds flattened at least 5 hectares of banana fields in Shailkupa, Jhenaidah.
Bangladesh's world-famous pink pearls and abundant mussels could make pearl farming a source of foreign currency and jobs, a researcher argues.
Tomato farming has transformed the economy of Khalilpur and nearby villages in Pabna's Sujanagar, earning it the name "tomato village".
Banana farming has expanded in Sherpur's border areas, and a single market in Sreebardi now trades about half a crore taka of bananas a day.
