CropsIn January 2026 village families across Pabna were busy every winter morning making kumra bori, sun-dried dumplings of ground lentils and ripe ash gourd; makers told Jagonews24 they sold them wholesale at Tk 90-110 a kilogram and that the work gave them extra income.
Al Amin and his father Sabu Molla are collecting honey from mustard flowers with bee boxes set in fields at Defulia village in Magura Sadar.
A fish farmer in Naogaon Sadar has raised giant freshwater prawns with carp in a single pond, and his results are drawing farmers from across the district.
Md Sharafatul Alam, an assistant teacher in Magura, has built a profitable jujube orchard of 200 trees beside his home.
In a small Bogura workshop, self-taught innovator Amir Hossain has designed more than 50 farm machines adapted to Bangladeshi fields and sold at a fraction of the price of imports.
Twin sisters from a Dinajpur village have both won places at medical colleges, easing their parents' worries about their three daughters' future.
Young nurse and entrepreneur Shahriar Sijan makes chemical-free date palm molasses at his home in Magura, using experienced tappers brought from Rajshahi.
Farmers in Faridpur have found success growing jute seed and expect it to earn more per decimal of land than it cost them.
Farmers in Joypurhat are turning waterlogged low land to water chestnut, a three-month crop that costs little and sells well.
A farmer in Mirsharai, Chattogram, has made about Tk 1 lakh profit growing summer watermelon on 50 decimals with mulching and organic methods.
Farmers in Joypurhat are using the perching method on about 40,000 hectares of Aman rice, letting insect-eating birds control pests instead of pesticides.
After heavy losses on a duck farm, Shimul of Pabna turned to black soldier fly farming and now earns about 200,000 taka a month from larvae for fish and poultry feed.
CropsKamruzzaman Sheikh of Azmatpur in Kaliganj, Gazipur, began making vermicompost in 2023-24 with help from the upazila agriculture office; by October 2025 his unit was selling more than a tonne a month and neighbours had followed him.
