A 22-day government ban on catching, transporting, storing, and selling Hilsa fish goes into effect across Bangladesh starting tonight, aimed at ensuring the safe breeding of mother Hilsa. This restriction will remain in force until October 29.

Supplies and production are down from last year in Barishal as the October 8 ban approaches

Nursery Panpunji's jhum cultivating indigenous community faces security concerns over covert attack on their only livelihood

The government will launch the pilot phase of the Farmers Card programme tomorrow, distributing the much-talked-about cards to more than 100,000 landless, marginal and small farmers.

Sultan Salauddin Tuku says 850 farmers have been trained to produce cattle feed at lower cost

The minister sat in a meeting with businessmen and stakeholders on reviewing egg production and supply, at the commerce ministry in Dhaka today

Cultivation shows commercial promise, brings Tk 100,000 profit to farmer in two months

Bangladesh imported over 17.4 lakh tonnes of corn to meet the requirements of its feed industry, of which approximately 111,000 tonnes were of American origin in MY26

The early cultivation of additional char land, however, has pushed up demand for fertiliser, creating shortages in several riverbank and char areas. Farmers in some places have protested and blocked roads, demanding adequate fertiliser supplies.

Amid the ongoing fertiliser crisis in many parts of the country, the government’s diesel price hike is set to push up farming costs, dealing another blow to farmers.

‘Soil Health Protection Cards’ expected to curb black-market fertiliser sales

The Bangladesh Fertilizer Association (BFA) has demanded that the sales commission per sack of fertiliser be doubled from Tk 100 to Tk 200 and that the recruitment of new fertiliser dealers be put on hold.

State minister expresses interest in meeting with Italian undersecretary of state in Rome

187 hectares of crops submerged in two upazilas; persistent rain delays early onion cultivation

Farmers in at least five villages under Kurigram’s Bhurungamari upazila say they are living in fear of arrest and harassment after a case was filed over a protest demanding adequate fertiliser earlier this month that left the upazila agriculture officer briefly confined by an agitated crowd.

Previously, dealers earned a commission of Tk 2 per kilogramme on fertiliser sales; this has now been raised to Tk 3.

During the ban, transportation, stockpiling, marketing, buying, selling, and exchange of hilsa will be prohibited across the country

For Rasel Hossain, this year’s Aus harvest should have been a source of relief. Instead, the farmer from Uttargram village in Naogaon’s Mohadevpur upazila is counting his losses.

High global prices, large stocks to curb demand, says USDA

Alleged collusion among dealers and retailers to hike fertiliser prices by “creating an artificial shortage” through hoarding and supply control is causing discontent among farmers, according to a report prepared by the Special Branch of the police.