Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Yao Wen on Wednesday, paid a courtesy call on Agriculture and Home Affairs Adviser Lieutenant General (Retd) Mohammad Jahangir Alam Chowdhury at the latter’s office ...

For five decades, Bangladesh's agriculture has powered food security and rural livelihoods, yet climate change now threatens ...

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

Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD), a water-saving irrigation technique, has increased rice production in Bangladesh, according to a recent study.  Boro and Aus rice cultivated using the AWD method ...

Bangladesh on Thursday held its first-ever Potato Festival, where Agriculture and Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen (Retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury urged cold storage operators to keep old potatoes in ...

The Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. 8, No. 4 (Autumn 1980), pp. 21-46 (26 pages) Farm level data as used in this paper show that farm households in Bangladesh agriculture have considerable ...

In Bangladesh's economy, agriculture plays a vital role in providing livelihoods for around 45.33 percent of the total labour force and contributing 11.38 percent to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Every year, nearly 30 percent of US farmland gets planted in corn, and our farmers ...

The Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. 35, No. 4 (December 2012), pp. 75-86 (12 pages) This empirical study on factor substitution and technical change in Bangladesh agriculture uses the translog ...

Dhaka, April 11, 2018 — Despite Bangladesh’s remarkable achievement in improving agricultural productivity, the sector is facing risks from climate change, extreme weather events, and sea level rise.