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 ...

Efforts to reduce malnutrition have resulted in 200 million fewer hungry people worldwide since 1990. But 805 million people still deal with chronic hunger every day. In the fight against poverty and ...

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 ...

Struck by recurrent flooding Bangladesh lost anything between half a million to one million tons of rice in 2024. Floodwaters deluged Haor zone of northeastern Bangladesh in June last year followed by ...

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 ...

In FY25, India exported 0.8 MT of rice to Bangladesh, which was 5.5% of the country's total non-basmati rice exports of 14.13 MT. (PTI) Bangladesh’s decision to float a tender for import of about 0.9 ...

On June 9, the age-old Chinese tradition of rice-fish farming was formally accorded world agricultural heritage status by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). In addition ...