Reaz Ahmad

India is all set to release its first genetically modified (GM) food crop -- a highly productive mustard oil variety -- and has

A chemical contamination study conducted by the government on 15 food commodities has found presence of excessive

Farmers, in near future, may no longer need to queue up at banks for farm credits nor need to go to the banks or kiosks to withdraw cash. All they would need to do is use their preloaded debit cards to buy agro-inputs.

An estimated 37 lakh people have been affected in floods in as many as 19 districts in the country and at least 10 lakh of them are now in need of immediate assistance.

The number of Bangladeshis seeking asylum in Europe rose from 10,000 in 2014 to 18,000 last year. It was only 7,000 in 2013.

Scientists at a public university have developed the country's first aromatic hybrid rice variety which is twice as productive as its low-yield indigenous counterparts.

Over a hundred Nobel laureates in a joint letter urged all concerned to refrain from campaigning against the Golden Rice -- the first Vitamin A-enriched rice in the world.

Bangladesh has substantially bridged the rich-poor gap in terms of women giving birth in health facilities.

Renata has introduced a new method to verify the authenticity of two of their over-the-counter drugs.

Bangladesh has made good progress in two of the eight nutrition indicators -- stunting and child overweight -- but is slipping back in exclusive breast feeding while doing badly in the rest five indicators, according to this year's Global Nutrition Report (GNR).

Courtesy of Brac University, Bangladesh's first footprint in space could happen with a small satellite launched into low earth orbit some time in the middle of next year.

It takes 14 million litres of irrigation water to produce six tonnes of Boro rice on one hectare of typical farmland in Bangladesh.

The first ever attack of wheat blast in Bangladesh cost the country a financial loss of at least Tk 1,800 crore in terms of lost yield this year.

If statistics provided in the finance minister's budget speech are something to go by, the country's food grain production has increased by two million tonnes since 2012-13.

Wheat blast disease, which struck the crop fields in southwestern Bangladesh this year in its first outbreak in Asia, came from Brazil, according to two scientists in Switzerland.

When the government had declared at the very beginning of the harvesting season that it would buy a higher volume of paddy directly

Scientists have come up with a solution for southern farmers who have long been deprived of the benefits of high-yield modern rice varieties (MVs) that cannot grow on tidal wetlands. After 12 years of arduous breeding process, they succeeded in developing two modern varieties suitable for cultivation in the tidal floodplain ecosystem of the southern delta region, with the promise of an additional yield of one million tonnes a year.

Inspired by the success of the country's first commercially released biotech crop -- Bt brinjal -- in 2013, Bangladesh is now

Bangladeshi scientist Prof Habibur Rahman is now the most revered man within the scientific and the farming fraternities of Canada.

Farmers in most parts of the country have started harvesting Boro paddy with high hopes of getting a better price this season.