11 individuals, organisations get SCB-Channel i Agro Award
Standard Chartered Bank and Channel i have awarded nine individuals and two organisations this year for their outstanding contributions to...
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Workshop on climate smart agri tech held at BARI
SAARC Agriculture Centre on Wednesday arranged the concluding session of the 鈥楾raining and Validation Workshop on Modules of Climate Smart Agriculture Technologies in South Asia鈥�...
Increasingly hot European summers harming health: report
Heat stress in Europe is increasingly threatening people鈥檚 health as global warming makes summers there hotter and deadlier, two leading climate monitors warned on Monday...
Govt must stop farmland loss to ensure food security
THE land minister鈥檚 directive for divisional commissioners to prevent any unauthorised use of arable land for housing, industrial or other commercial purposes is welcome. The minister at a divisional...
HC for making law to protect agri land
The High Court in a full verdict on Tuesday recommended immediately passing the private bill that sought steps in 2016 for appropriate use and...
Crackdown on protests continues following one-sided elections: report
Johannesburg based rights monitoring body CIVICUS Monitor said that criminalisation of activists and crackdown on protests continued following one-sided elections in Bangladesh...
Taiwan urban beekeeping gets positive buzz
Under mulberry trees at a bee farm in Taipei's suburbs, students watched intently as instructor Tsai Ming-hsien wafted smoke over a hive box, explaining to aspiring apiarists how to keep the insects happy in an urban setting.
Authorities must attend to irrigation crisis in north
THE farming of boro rice, the largest rice crop that accounts for 54 per cent of the total rice production, facing an irrigation problem in the north is concerning. Thousands of farmers in northern Rajshahi and Rangpur are reported to be facing...