If you liked this story, share it with other people. Bangladesh is the fourth-highest rice-producing country in the world, but much of that production is threatened by salinity. More than 30% of the ...

Bangladesh’s rural economy, and specifically agriculture, have been powerful drivers of poverty reduction in Bangladesh since 2000. Indeed, agriculture accounted for 90 percent of the reduction in ...

Modern farming, stronger storage and farmer protection are needed to help Bangladesh withstand global supply shocks, he says ...

Bangladesh sends Agriculture Minister Dr Md Abdus Shahid to Colombo, Sri Lanka, to lead a high-level delegation at a significant multilateral event to reform agrifood systems across the Asia-Pacific ...

Dhaka, Dec. 1 -- Marking the 80th anniversary of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and five decades of Bangladesh-FAO collaboration, a milestone event was held in Dhaka ...

Dhaka, April 30 -- Home and Agriculture Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Wednesday said Japan is one of Bangladesh's key development partners and a time-tested friend, and its ...

DHAKA - Bangladesh welcomed more Chinese agricultural processing enterprises and agricultural machinery enterprises to invest in Bangladesh to help the country upgrade its agricultural industry and ...

The decades-long shrimp aquaculture on Bangladesh’s southwest coast, which negatively impacts the environment in many ways, including creating a freshwater crisis, is now losing its importance as the ...

Agriculture, the backbone of Bangladesh's economy, is on the brink of a technological revolution. With agriculture contributing approximately 13.6 percent to the national GDP and employing nearly half ...

Sheikh Sirajul Islam, a smallholder farmer in Bangladesh’s southwestern Satkhira district, sowed the wet-season aman rice in his four acres of land this August. He is hopeful for a good yield, he says ...