Farmers' Hopes Buried Under Sand
Flash floods after a Dhalai river embankment breach in Kamalganj have buried farmland under sand and destroyed about 32 lakh grafted tomato seedlings.
Flash floods after a Dhalai river embankment breach in Kamalganj have buried farmland under sand and destroyed about 32 lakh grafted tomato seedlings.
Continuous rain and moderate storms in Meherpur have flooded low-lying fields, hitting chillies, summer onions, vegetables and aus and aman paddy.
Hilsa supply at Barishal's largest wholesale market has dropped far below normal at the peak of the season, and buyers say prices are out of reach.
Sack cultivation of ginger is spreading across every upazila of Nilphamari, with 3,32,775 sacks planted on fallow land this year.
Fruit bagging has improved the colour and taste of Rajshahi's late-season Ashwina mango, lifting demand, prices and cultivation and opening export prospects.
The home adviser told Coast Guard officers that stopping the smuggling of hilsa and fertiliser to neighbouring countries must be part of their core duty.
Flood-hit farmers in Sunamganj's haor region are starting winter vegetables with cheap, high-yield seedlings raised in a local poly house.
A lone black-faced langur has been roaming Phulbari upazila town in Dinajpur for several days, taking food from homes and shops.
A young entrepreneur has become the first in Mirsharai, Chattogram, to grow avocado successfully, and now plans to expand and sell seedlings.
CropsOn 14 September 2024 Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Party handed free Aman rice seedlings, raised on seedbeds in Brahmanbaria, to 400 farmers in Cumilla and Feni whose crops and seedbeds the August flood had destroyed.
Farmers in Joypurhat are expanding bitter gourd cultivation after good profits, with traders buying straight from the fields at Tk 1,500-1,600 a maund.
A boat rally and human chain on the Payra river in Taltali, Barguna, called for coal power projects to be scrapped to protect the river and its hilsa.
Downy mildew, a fungal disease, is the main reason the leaves of gourd-family crops in Bangladesh turn yellow, and it can be prevented and controlled.