Rice prices have risen by Tk 2-6 a kg despite the Aman harvest and open imports, with traders blaming hoarding and rumours, millers blaming paddy prices and the food secretary blaming propaganda.
Climate change, rising salinity, river erosion and a lack of cultivation and care are wiping out the gol palm from coastal settlements, environmentalists warn.
A former music-shop owner in Sundarganj, Gaibandha, who switched from flowers to oranges after Covid, has sold about Tk 2.5 lakh of China mandarins this season.
Farmers across Manikganj are working from dawn to dusk to plant hali onion seedlings, though some fear losses if onion prices do not rise.
Guava is packed with nutrients, but doctors say people with certain health problems should avoid it.
CropsAntor Gorapi, a college student in Naria, Shariatpur, turned one pair of Silkie chickens into a farm of at least 100 birds of eight foreign breeds that, in December 2024, earned him at least Tk 30,000 a month.
A local farmer's hobby tea garden near the border in Matiranga upazila is opening new possibilities for tea production in Khagrachhari.
Pabna farmers growing the new summer onion variety BARI-5 expect 150 to 200 maunds a bigha at low cost, a crop that could ease the country's summer onion shortage.
CropsIn December 2024 Jagonews24 reported that China, Darjeeling and mandarin oranges were spreading across 16 districts of northern Bangladesh, helped by the climate, the soil and support from the Department of Agricultural Extension.
A list of 2024's trending superfoods, drawn from several studies and dietitian surveys, ranges from kimchi and kefir to papaya and green tea.
A Sonargaon farmer expects a profit of about Tk 50,000 from cauliflower and bottle gourd leaves grown on two and a half bigha.
Police in Lakshmipur have detained a Jubo League leader after a Tantidal leader who protested against a char road being ploughed up for crops was allegedly beaten.
Farmers whose incentive onion seed failed to germinate this season have been given replacement seed, some of it imported urgently from abroad.
