Environment
Seven Ways Bamboo Helps Protect the Environment
From protecting soil and water to absorbing more carbon dioxide than trees, bamboo plays a wide role in protecting the environment and supporting rural livelihoods.
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Fruits
How to Make Palm Sugar and Jaggery
A step-by-step guide to collecting sap from palmyra palms and boiling it into good-quality palm jaggery, a source of rural jobs and income.
Crops
Not Just Anywhere: Tree Planting Must Be Planned
Syed Mazarul Islam Rubel argues that successful tree planting depends not on numbers but on planting the right species in the right place.
Agribusiness
DSCC Administrator Launches Tree-Planting Drive in Kadamtali
Dhaka South City Corporation's administrator opened a tree-planting drive on a canal bank in Kadamtali and urged residents to help keep canals and drains clean.
Environment
Tree Planting Must Become a Lasting Social Movement, Says Minister
State Minister for Environment Sheikh Faridul Islam said all agencies must work together to turn tree planting into a sustainable social movement.
Fruits
It Isn't Round, So Why Is It Called the 'Gol' Tree?
Neither the golgachh (nipa palm) nor its leaves are round; the name comes from the round clusters of its fruit, and the palm has long sustained Sundarbans leaf collectors and coastal homes.
Crops
One Lakh Palm Saplings to Be Planted Across the Country
A campaign to plant one lakh palmyra saplings across Bangladesh to curb lightning deaths and protect the climate and biodiversity was launched in Rajshahi with 1,000 saplings.
Environment
Palm Saplings Planted at RUET to Reduce Lightning Risk
The Rajshahi divisional committee of the ICT Employee Society of Bangladesh planted palm saplings at the RUET gate to reduce the growing risk of lightning and protect climate and biodiversity.
Environment
14-Member Advisory Pool Formed for 25 Crore Tree-Planting Drive
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has formed a 14-member advisory pool to help implement the programme to plant 25 crore trees in five years.
Crops
How the Palm Tree Protects Nature
The palmyra palm, which lives for more than a century, helps protect against lightning, shelters birds, supplies food, crafts and building material, and is easy to plant on high ground.
Crops
Forest Department Accused of Selling Free Saplings
The Forest Department in Kushtia is accused of selling part of about 35,000 saplings given free by a tobacco company, and cannot account for where many of them went.
Environment
Government to Plant 25 Crore Trees Across the Country: Environment State Minister
The government has begun mapping suitable species by region for its plan to plant 25 crore trees across the country, Environment State Minister Sheikh Faridul Islam said.
Environment
Planting Trees Is Not Enough, a Social Environmental Movement Is Needed: DSCC Administrator
Launching a 10,000-tree drive in Kamrangirchar, DSCC administrator Md Abdus Salam said tree planting must be matched by clean rivers, canals and drains and a social environmental movement.