VegetablesThakurgaon has had a bumper crop of early cauliflower and cabbage, but wholesale buyers pay only Tk 400 for a 43 kg maund, about Tk 9.30 a kilo, while the same vegetables retail at Tk 30 to 40.
LivestockAbdul Majid and Nazrul Islam of Thakurgaon began three years ago with 40 ducks. They now hatch ducklings in an incubator and raise fish, and say they earn Tk 25-30 lakh a year.
Out to watch foxes in Thakurgaon, Professor Tuhin Wadud saw a jungle cat beside a riverside thicket and sugarcane field; photographer Rezaul Hafiz Rahi photographed one for the first time.
BADC's Madarganj store holds more than three times its capacity and 57 loaded trucks wait outside, while farmers pay Tk 200 to Tk 250 a sack over the government price.
VegetablesPotatoes that cost Tk 19-20 a kg once storage and transport are paid sell for Tk 14; the district's 19 cold stores still hold about 105,000 tonnes, and growers want an export push.
EnvironmentSeen almost everywhere three or four decades ago, the lesser adjutant stork now survives in a few pockets of the Sundarbans, Chapainawabganj and Thakurgaon, writes Professor Tuhin Wadud, who urges protection of its habitat.
EnvironmentA mobile court in Pirganj, Thakurgaon, jailed two men for a year for trapping egrets beside the Kalupir-Thumnia sal forest under the wildlife protection law, and about 15 caged birds were released.
BangladeshBangladesh's first agro-ecological zone stretches across Panchagarh, Thakurgaon and north-western Dinajpur on land laid down by an ancient Tista river fan. Its light, acidic soils set the rules for farming, and researchers say satellite data and machine learning will help farmers only when they are checked in real fields.
A tenant farmer in Ruhia, Thakurgaon, says his seven bighas of rice began rotting and turning red the day after he sprayed several pesticides a local dealer supplied.
Reporters in Thakurgaon found hundreds of sacks of government fertiliser in open-market shops and alerted officials, who did not come even after a four-hour wait.
CropsFarmers in Thakurgaon said on 8 November 2025 that the aman paddy yield was good but that a two-maund sack was fetching Tk 2,200 to Tk 2,400, too little to cover their costs, and they asked the government to fix a fair price and buy paddy.
Fisheries and livestock adviser Farida Akhter says 1,200 tonnes of hilsa are being exported for Durga Puja at India's repeated request, in smaller volume and at a higher price than before.
Migratory birds have again flocked to Ramrai Dighi in Ranisankail upazila of Thakurgaon, drawing visitors who urged the authorities to keep them safe.
