The Eid spirit is missing in Gadkhali, the biggest wholesale market for flowers, near here.
Category: Food & nutrition
How climate change could threaten nutrition of millions
By Natasha Geiling The world already has a hard time properly allocating crucial nutrients to its 7.125 billion residents — and a new study published in The Lancet Wednesday suggests that global warming is only going to increase that challenge.…
30 funding resources for sustainable food advocates
Danielle Nierenberg Farmers are the backbone of resilient local and regional food systems, yet many are aging or retiring. The FarmLASTS Project at the University of Vermont estimates that 70 percent of farmland in the United States will change hands…
Permaculture – growing prosperity
Danielle Nierenberg Last week, I had the honor of talking to permaculture experts in Malawi. Permaculture is an innovative ethics and design based process used to make agriculture more sustainable, restore soil, conserve water, and redirect waste streams. The process…
Fazle Hasan Abed, gets 2015 World Food Prize
By DAVID PITT, Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A man who created a nonprofit organization credited with helping more than 150 million people out of poverty was named the winner of the 2015 World Food Prize on Wednesday.…
Legalisation is driving down the price of marijuana
By John Dyer Marijuana legalization and decriminalization has vaulted weed into the realm of commodities like corn, pork bellies, tin, gold, and rubber. In other words, now that people can buy pot almost everywhere, the market is expansive and uniform…
30 influential women who inspire Food movement
Danielle Nierenberg Greetings from Zambia! There are hundreds of women who inspire us at Food Tank. They are entrepreneurs, stewards of the land, business owners, researchers, farmers, and innovators, who are the backbone of the world’s food systems. In fact,…
Food fortification with Vitamin A on anvil
The government is actively considering gradually fortifying all food items with Vitamin A alongside edible oil to prevent the diseases caused by the deficit of the crucial vitamin. Industries Secretary M Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan on Wednesday disclosed this at a…
One-day-chick prices cross all records, pountry farmers at bay
One-day-old chick price has crossed all previous records on Sunday as one chick cost as high as Taka 73 and in the next few days it will rise to Taka 85-90 a piece in Comilla. All small pountry farmers of…
Rights body terms budget not farmer-friendly
Ten farmers’ and rights based organisations termed the proposed budget for the year of 2015-16 as businessmen friendly not farmers friendly. The allocation for agriculture in the proposed budget for the incoming fiscal year is inadequate and suicidal for future…
Thousands of non-native goldfish invade Colorado lake
A handful of goldfish dumped into a Colorado lake, evidently by a pet owner years ago, have reproduced and thousands of the non-native fish now threaten indigenous aquatic species, state wildlife officials say.Rangers in Boulder County last month detected teeming…
Govt launches ‘Eco Fish’ project for sustainable hilsa
The government has undertaken a project named ‘Eco Fish’ in the rivers of the coastal areas under nine districts for sustainable fisheries, especially hilsa fish, and biodiversity.The project includes a research in the first time over the propagation and breeding…
Lead factories mushroom in Khulna
Environment, public heath in hazardous straits Unauthorised lead factories are springing up in different parts of the city keeping both the environment and public health in a perilous state.Without following any rules and regulations, at least 35 such factories have…
Papaya farming brings fortune to Naogaon farmer
A marginal farmer of Naogaon district has built his own fortune by farming papaya, a tropical sweet fruit and vegetable, on his land.Saidur Rahman, 50, once a small trader of papaya, now turned into a rich man by farming the…
Farming jute through latest technologies stressed
Experts in a function here yesterday stressed the need for farming jute and its expansion in larger scale through adopting latest technologies to take the agri-sector ahead further for country’s economic emancipation.
Mango yield in Rajshahi, Chapainawabganj blighted
Mango farmers and traders in various parts of the region are concerned by the large number of green mangoes that have been torn from the trees by the recent nor’westers and hailstorms.The unfavourable weather follows the earlier attack by leaf…
Bumper jackfruit production likely in Bogra
An eye bumper production of juicy tasteful jackfruit is likely in this season as the weather condition is most favorable for growing it. Harvesting of the fruits will begin from coming month in the district this season, official sources said.…
Rice-wheat-mugbean cropping pattern can double yield
Wide-ranging promotion of rice-wheat- mugbean cropping pattern in bed planting system could be the effective means of making yield of those double in the region including its vast barind tract. Agricultural scientists and researchers told BSS that the on- farm…
Sunderbans flora, fauna under fresh threat as fertilizer ship sinks
A cargo vessel carrying potash fertilizer capsized in the Bhola River at Swarankhola Range of the Sundarbans East Zone. Amir Hossain Chowdhury, Divisional Forest Officer of the Sundarbans East Zone, has said that the cargo vessel – ‘Jabalenoor’ – ran…
Coastal fish resources endangered for current nets
Indiscriminate use of current nets in the coastal waters of the Sundarbans and adjacent areas has put fish resources there in peril. Breeding of different species of fish is being hampered beside the fish resources being destroyed largely.
Low paddy price irks Sherpur farmers
As paddy farmers across the district have started harvesting the Boro crops, its price remain very low at the growers’ level.Per maund of Boro paddy is selling at Tk 300 -Tk 420 at the growers’ level, and between Tk 400…
Dissuade farmers from committing suicide!
I am rather shocked to learn from the international press that a dozens of debt-laden poor farmers in the Indian State of Punjab have committed suicide in the past two months as they couldn’t grow their rice, wheat and potato…
Seed assocs of Bangladesh, India sign trade agreement
New Delhi: Seed associations of Bangladesh and India have inked a pact to facilitate traders of both nations to increase business in high-yielding varieties of rice seeds, think-tank CUTS international said today. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between…
Supporting future farmers
Danielle Nierenberg Young people are the farmers and food system leaders of tomorrow. According to the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), young people are increasingly abandoning agriculture and rural areas in search of better prospects, which makes creating opportunities…
Mega agri projects envisages to pull one-fifth population out of poverty
The government has taken two mega agricultural development programmes seeking to enhance the capacity of farmers and improve water management and agri-business, and thus pull some one-fifth population of the country out of poverty. According to official documents obtained by…
Bumper chilly production likely in Bogra
Farmers of Bogra district are hopeful of achieving bumper production of Chilly in this season as the agricultural imputes are provided by local Department of Agriculture Extension. Besides, the favourable climate condition also helps to grow bumper chilly.
‘Conservation technologies for boosting maize production stressed’
Experts at a farmers’ filed day have stressed on adoption of the Conservation Agriculture (CA)-based technologies for boosting maize production at reduced cost to ensure food security under adverse climate.
‘Expand sugar beet cultivation as substitute to sugarcane’
Experts at a day-long farmers’ field day stressed expanded cultivation of tropical sugar beet as an effective substitute to sugarcane in increasing production of sugar and molasses. The weather condition of Bangladesh is suitable for sugar beet farming, its sweetness…
46,266 hectares brought under Jute cultivation in Jamalpur
Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has brought a total of 46,266 hectares of land under Jute cultivation programme to produce 493,881 bales of jute during the current season.
Mango farmers commercially use fruit bagging technology in Rajshahi, Chapai
For the first time in the region, fruit bagging technology is going to be promoted in mango orchards in Rajshahi and Chapainawabgonj commercially during the forthcoming pre-harvest season to protect mango from pest attack besides facilitating the farmers to get…