412 reports translated from the Bengali original, most recent first. বাংলা সংস্করণ
Several thousand Aman farmers blocked the Lalmonirhat-Burimari highway at Kaliganj demanding adequate fertiliser at government-set prices, before clearing after the UNO promised distribution within two days.
A broiler poultry farmer, Rajabul Islam (39), has gone mysteriously missing from Osmanpur village in Alamdanga upazila, Chuadanga, while staying overnight at his own farm. He had messaged his wife that he was frightened…
Two committees have been formed to investigate allegations of poor-quality saplings and bamboo poles supplied for the tree-planting programme in Chuadanga, after media reports on the matter.
In the waterlogged Bil Dakatia belt of Khulna, poly net house technology is letting farmers produce quality vegetable seedlings locally, turning a limitation into a new opportunity in Dumuria upazila.
After a canal was re-excavated in Faridpur's Alfadanga, farmers can now ret jute close to home, cutting costs and raising hopes of better fibre and prices.
In Afghanistan's Badakhshan province, dozens of excavators now dig for gold day and night, and residents who once profited say the rush has ruined rivers and pastures, AFP reports.
Prime Minister Tareque Rahman has vowed to build a better, developed Bangladesh through everyone’s collective effort, at a ceremony handing jobs to families of July uprising martyrs and the injured.
A reckless bus killed seven farm labourers at Bogura’s Erulia Bazar and a two-bus collision in Sylhet’s Osmaninagar killed nine, among 16 dead in a day of road tragedy; families are in mourning.
Syngenta Bangladesh expands its GoGro value-chain scheme in Satkhira’s Shyamnagar, having helped 1,200 farmers and aiming to bring 3,500 farmers and 1,000 acres under climate-resilient farming by 2030.
State warehouses in Jashore hold near-double their capacity in fertiliser, yet aman farmers say they cannot buy urea, DAP, TSP or MOP at official rates and are paying almost double at unauthorised shops.
A farmer, Madhu Miya (58), has been hacked to death on a road in Tahirpur, Sunamganj, and five of his relatives injured, in what police are treating as a killing rooted in a land…
Pakistan has allowed the import of fresh Bangladeshi pineapples, the Bangladesh High Commission in Islamabad says, opening the way for wider agricultural trade between the two countries.
At the historic Gangarampur bazaar in Magura's Shalikha, bright yellow pumpkin flowers and pumpkin greens — once eaten only at home — are now selling briskly at 50-60 taka a kilo, giving farmers a…
In Brahmanbaria's Nabinagar, about 150 bighas of long-fallow land have been brought under aush rice for the first time this season, thanks to modern solar irrigation and agriculture-department support — filling once-barren fields with…
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman ordered officials to prepare an accurate and transparent national list of farmers by December after verification. Farmer cards will carry photographs and QR codes and connect recipients with agricultural support…
A woman died in a lightning strike and a farmer drowned in separate incidents Monday in Shyamnagar upazila of Satkhira.
Commercial soybean cultivation has begun in the Khulna region for the first time, with officials targeting 26.25 metric tons of output from 17.5 hectares in Khulna and Bagerhat districts.
Two people died in the Dhumghat area of Satkhira's Shyamnagar upazila on Monday — a 40-year-old woman struck by lightning while working in a field, and a 50-year-old farmer who drowned in a pond.
Authorities forced thousands to evacuate on Saturday as a wildfire spread rapidly near Spokane in the US state of Washington, with a state of emergency declared amid one of the worst wildfire seasons on…
At least 10 people were injured in several rounds of clashes between two sides over irrigating farmland in Charfasson. Five were admitted to the upazila health complex. One side alleges a local BNP leader…
About 800 fruit-bearing trees in a privately owned papaya orchard on the outskirts of Rangamati town have been cut down after a 10 lakh (1 million) taka extortion demand was not met, according to…
Green chilli imports will begin on Monday, Agriculture Minister Mohammad Amin Ur Rashid has said, expressing hope that the price of green chillies will come down to a tolerable level within two to five…
Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Livestock Amin Ur Rashid Yasin has said the “ghosts of autocracy” are still lying in wait and would wreck the country if given the chance. He made the remarks…
Tea cultivation has emerged as a major opportunity in the northern border district of Lalmonirhat. As an alternative to harmful tobacco, tea could transform the district's economy, and farmer interest has grown as the…
More than a week of heavy rain has badly damaged the summer chili crop in Madhukhali, Faridpur, killing most plants through waterlogging and pushing farmers into heavy losses; they are demanding government compensation.
Heavy rain and flooding have pushed up prices in Dhaka's kitchen markets, with green chili reaching 400 taka a kg and most vegetables selling near or above 100 taka, hitting low- and middle-income buyers…
Prime Minister Tareque Rahman will not be able to run the government for long, National Citizen Party chief organizer Nasiruddin Patwari said, alleging governance failures over the economy and diplomacy. His claims about the…
The BNP-led government is a “humane government” that wants to stand by every citizen, Social Welfare, Women and Children Affairs Minister AZM Zahid Hossain said on Friday, urging people to stay vigilant so that…
Bangladesh Bank has ruled that anyone seeking a stimulus package or other policy support must first withdraw every case filed against the government, the central bank or the bank concerned.
Flood control embankments and river banks have collapsed at 23 points on the Halda and its tributaries in Chattogram, and thousands fear losing their homes.
Steady monsoon rain has left enough water in the fields of Khansama upazila, and farmers are working from dawn to dusk to finish transplanting aman on time.
The commerce minister, Khandaker Abdul Muktadir, says an artificial intelligence system is being set up to analyse production, imports and international markets and forecast shortages of essential goods.
The government has appointed new vice-chancellors to Netrokona University, Habiganj Agricultural University and Kishoreganj University.
The Bangladesh embassy in Kathmandu has held an exhibition and festival of Bangladeshi mango varieties and mango-based products, drawing about 250 guests.
Jashore's wholesale betel-leaf market turns over crores of taka twice a week and supports thousands of livelihoods, yet after decades it still has no shed, no safe water and no toilets.
The minister for local government, rural development and cooperatives has urged newly admitted students to establish themselves as entrepreneurs through agro-based industry, agribusiness and innovative farming ventures.
About 1.53 crore people in Bangladesh — some 15 percent of the population analysed — are in acute food insecurity, and the figure could rise to 1.81 crore between September and December, an IPC…
Prolonged waterlogging has killed 137 of the 139 mother litchi trees, about 60 years old, at the Jamalpur Horticulture Centre, halting production of improved-variety saplings.
Palestinian authorities say Israeli settlers set fire to two mosques, several cars and farmland in the occupied West Bank, two days after clashes near Tal village left four Palestinians and two Israelis dead.
Despite a bumper jute yield in Natore's Lalpur upazila, farmers cannot cut the crop on time because of a severe shortage of labourers, raising fears that fibre quality and prices will suffer.
Floods have wiped out vegetable fields in Chattogram and Cox's Bazar — 9,208 hectares and 56,730 tonnes of production, worth about 140.82 crore taka — leaving the region dependent on northern Bangladesh for at…
The agriculture department has set a target of 17,345 hectares of aman paddy in Jashore's Chougacha this season, but growers fear thin profits as fertiliser, pesticide and labour costs climb.
Instead of leaving his paddy land idle after the harvest, a Sreemangal farmer planted okra on the advice of the local agriculture office — and now expects a profit of 70,000 to 80,000 taka…
A Kushtia farmer says hundreds of guava trees on three bighas died after a company representative had him apply 50 ml of a plant-growth hormone at the base of each tree; the company denies…
Police recovered the injured body of a farmer, Hasem Ali, 55, from a field in Chuadanga's Almdanga upazila, a day after he went missing while going to fertilise his land; the cause of death…
Onion prices have risen 10 to 15 taka a kilogram to 45–55 taka, with chicken, egg, vegetables and fish also selling higher, as rain spoils produce and supply falls short of demand.
Commercial tomato cultivation using the mulching method has begun in Kotchandpur, Jhenaidah, with 7.5 bighas under BARI Hybrid 8 this year and demonstration plots planned for seven farmers.
Floods damaged farmland across most of Lohagara upazila's nine unions in Chattogram, submerging aman seedbeds, aus paddy, vegetable fields and betel-leaf plots; agriculture officials put the loss at 5.14 crore taka.
Amar Desh editor Dr. Mahmudur Rahman told a Dhaka University seminar that job creation in manufacturing and agriculture must be the top priority if Bangladesh's economy is to recover.
Silica sand is being extracted illegally from more than a hundred hill streams in Moulvibazar in defiance of a High Court injunction, damaging embankments, hills, roads and farmland and costing the government revenue.
Information Minister Zahir Uddin Swapan told the press accreditation committee's first meeting that a proper authority is essential to determine who is and is not a journalist, urging inclusive, far-sighted decisions.
Seeds, fertiliser and other inputs worth about 8,000 taka each were distributed free to 300 small and marginal cotton farmers in Chuadanga Sadar to encourage cotton cultivation.
If sacking the education minister would calm the student movement and restore parliament, why won't Narendra Modi do it? Analysts say yielding to a demand would cut against the defining trait of a government…
A crop show in Bagdanga village of Jashore Sadar is displaying 129 improved varieties across 23 crops, drawing seed dealers and farmers from across the country to Jashore, known as the country's vegetable store.
In the small town of Windsor, Illinois, a 31-foot brick “Tower of Ba-Goat” with 276 spiral steps houses a herd of Saanen goats — an accidental world's-tallest goat tower that has become a global…
About 3,000 cotton farmers in the Jashore region fear a poor harvest, alleging they are being pushed to take a particular company's seeds instead of the variety they want; officials deny the allegation.
Green chili prices in Dhaka have doubled to more than 200 taka a kg — reaching 280 taka in some markets — after weeks of heavy rain and flooding cut vegetable supplies, with more…
A 300-foot stretch of the Hasadaha-Mahespur road has stayed unrepaired for nearly three years, leaving it pothole-ridden and mud-choked; officials blame delays in drain permits and illegal shops on government land.
Four decades of unplanned saltwater intrusion and shrimp farming have transformed the coast of Koyra and Paikgacha in Khulna, leaving once-fertile paddy land under brackish enclosures and pushing the coastal farm economy into crisis,…
Regular rain and favourable weather have jute growing well across Khulna, where officials expect a bumper harvest that could exceed the season's 4,97,444-tonne production target, as acreage has already topped the goal.