Climate change impacts in Bangladesh
With the Himalayas to the north and the Bay of Bengal to the south, Bangladesh sits on one of the world’s largest and most densely populated deltas, where the Jamuna, Padma and Meghna rivers converge.
With the Himalayas to the north and the Bay of Bengal to the south, Bangladesh sits on one of the world’s largest and most densely populated deltas, where the Jamuna, Padma and Meghna rivers converge.
Speakers at a conference here have stressed the need for conducting more research on crop diversity to ensure food security.
Many residents of East Sholoshohar are to depend on unusable pond water for household work as the Water and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) is unable to supply optimum water for them in the ward.
The government has so far distributed nearly Tk 4.70 crore to the poultry farmers all over the country, who have sustained losses due to avian influenza, as part of the compensation for exterminating the contaminated poultry and destroying eggs to prevent the spread of the disease in the country, said ministry sources. Sources in the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock confirmed that out of the total amount, about Tk 95 lakh was distributed last year while the rest was distributed in the last two months. The government has raised the amount of compensation for culling poultry and destroying eggs under the
An integrated approach is needed to face the challenges of human and animal diseases, as climate change contributes to emergence of new infectious diseases, experts told a seminar yesterday. The British Council organised the seminar titled 'Infectious diseases: A vision for future detection, identification and monitoring' as part of a campaign for having a universal action plan to tackle veterinary infectious diseases. The seminar was also designed to raise the level of understanding of the policymakers, researchers and health experts about the issue. Dr Joe Brownlie of Department of Pathology and Infectious Diseases at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) in London, attended the seminar as the keynote speaker. Dr Joe Brownlie highlighted the results of a recent UK foresight report on technological and policy priorities for meeting the future challenges of infectious diseases, which would affect humans, plants and animals. Director of British Council Dr June Rollinson and Vice Chancellor of Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University Prof Nitish C Debnath also spoke on the occasion. Experts, teachers of veterinary science, microbiologists and pharmacists attended the seminar.
All small industries and factories in Rajshahi region have been asked to keep shutters down on Sundays to save power for its supply for Boro irrigation. Rajshahi divisional Power Development Board (PDB) yesterday circulated a notice in this regard. The notice said, all small industries and factories will remain closed on Sundays. Shops will be closed after 8 pm and welding factories at 5 pm everyday, the notice said.
The intensity of bird flu has lessened all over the country with no major outbreak reported during the last one week, officials and poultry industry people claimed.