Shrimp farmers and processors in Bangladesh have sunk into hard times after a slump in demand and depreciation of major exporters’ currencies, reports The Daily Star.
Industry operators said many buyers have pushed back the shipment of their orders, while a section of them are even seeking discounts. As a result, the stockpiles are rising at the processors’ end.
The ample production of vannamei in India and Vietnam has been blamed, for the most part, for the slump in demand for the locally-grown black tiger...
As the sea keeps rising due to climate change and affecting coastal Bangladesh, turning the soil and groundwater saline, scientists have been breeding salt tolerant varieties of rice, the main crop in the region. But the sea keeps coming in and turning everything more and more saline, well beyond the point that salt tolerant rice varieties can tolerate.
The latest salt tolerant rice variety – that the scientists released among Bangladeshi farmers as recently as November 20 – can tolerate a salinity of up...
The Contract to purchase 25,000 metric tons of coarse rice from Bangladesh on a Government to Government basis was signed by the Governments of Sri Lanka and Bangladesh on 03 December 2014 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Mr.Nalin Fernando, Chairman of Lanka Sathosa Ltd, Sri Lanka and Mr. Sarwar Khan, Director General of, Directorate of Food, Bangladesh signed the Agreement on behalf of the Governments of Sri Lanka and Bangladesh respectively.
Under the provisions of the Contract, Sri Lanka agreed to purchase 25,000 metric tons of non-fragran...
Small farmers in developing countries are more than victims of climate change though they are the vital part of solution to global warming, according to a report issued by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
The Smallholder Advantage, a report on IFAD’s response to climate change, shows how investments in access to weather information, technology transfer and disaster preparedness are helping smallholder women and men feed themselves and their families on a warming planet – while restoring degraded ecosystems and reducing agriculture’s carbon footprint.
“We see smallholder farmers as an important part of solution to the climate change challenge,” said IFAD President Kanayo F. Nwanze. “With around 500 million smallholder farms responsible for around four-fif...
During the monsoon rains in northwest Bangladesh, swollen rivers can flood villages for months at a time. For the rural poor who rely on agriculture, there is no way to make money. But now some people are building small floating farms, where they grow vegetables and raise animals, right on top of the floodwaters.
Dozens of ducks quack as Hafiza Khatun gathers eggs in an unusual coop that floats on water.
It sits on top of a bamboo platform and empty oil drums and is moored to a riverbank near the village of Charbh...
New Food market report by Business Monitor International holds a cautious outlook towards the Bangladesh agriculture sector. The latest finding of high levels of toxic substances in poultry feed bring s much cause for concern as it reflects on the low food safety standards employed by the country, even in its largest agriculture sector.
Indeed, structural problems still plague the industry. In the medium term, for example, the frequent occurrences of strikes, or hartals and road blockages will keep our o...
The ample production of vannamei in India and Vietnam has been blamed, for the most part, for the slump in demand for the locally-grown black tiger...
