Bangladesh, the fourth biggest rice-producing country in the world, produces around 39 million tons of rice annually to feed its 170 million people, with 130 lab-developed high-yielding varieties. For ...
Over the decades, Bangladesh has lost vast swathes of its waterbodies as its population has kept growing. Fishermen saw their catches shrink year after year. Still, many in rural areas refused to let ...
On the outer edge of the Sundarbans, Abdul Majed Sarkar once found solace in his modest patch of land. The four-bigha plot he ...
The expansion of shrimp cultivation has changed the land-use pattern and had a negative effect on the coastal ecosystems of Bangladesh. This study aimed to examine how socioeconomic conditions have ...
Ahsan Khan Chowdhury, Chairman and CEO of PRAN-RFL Group, has warned that without radical transformation in the country’s ...
Rice alone accounted for nearly half of total food inflation, according to the Economic Update and Outlook report by the Planning Commission’s General Economics Division.
Researchers have found microplastics in 90% of frogs sampled from the Bengal Delta in Bangladesh. The finding raises concerns about the freshwater ecosystem health and rice cultivation, given that ...