Reaz Ahmad

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.

With farmers ready to reap rice in the year's biggest rice season -- Boro -- in a week amidst concern over poor market price,

The government has rejected two shipments of Russian wheat, weighing 1,00,000 tonnes in total, on the grounds of quality issues.

BANGLADESH will have to enhance farm productivity by blending modern technologies, hybrid seeds and world-class crop protection solutions in the face of depleting farmlands and rising population, an expert said.

Climate change is a reality and so is the farming sector's resilience to it in Bangladesh.

Food security exists when all people, at all times, have access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to maintain healthy and

Bangladeshi scientists have successfully field-tested a genetically modified (GM) potato resistant to late blight, one of the most devastating plant diseases caused by fungal attack. After the last trial is over in February, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI) will approach regulators for approval of the RB (blight resistant) gene-infused potato.

Unlike its South Asian neighbours India and Pakistan, Bangladesh is on course to meet the global targets for reducing stunting among children under five.

The government yesterday rejected 19,700 tonnes of wheat imported from France for having too much of damaged kernels, and asked the supplier to take back the grains worth Tk 40 crore.

Brac has gone beyond the national boundary to take the benefits of its programmes and innovations in farm sector to other countries of the world.

Genomes of 186 Bangladeshi rice varieties have been sequenced in Beijing Genomics Institute, China as part of a global collaborative project, opening up new opportunities for varietal developments.

Number of undernourished people in Bangladesh has remained almost static in recent years despite the country's commendable improvement in food security status since 1990.

Imagine growing up in a place where, as a girl child, you are more likely to get married than go to secondary schools. That is the sad reality for girls in 26 countries, including Bangladesh.