Task force to protect environment
The deputy commissioner (DC) of Dhaka district has decided to form a task force of concerned government authorities to protect against environmental pollution, especially water pollution, air pollution
New Age (Bangladesh)
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Indigenous fishes face extinction
Different species of indigenous fishes is under threat of extinction in Patuakhali due to continued drying up of rivers and lack of adequate water in water bodies like haors and beels. Once famous for fish resources, the coastal district produced a huge quantity of sweet-water fishes in the rivers and water bodies but now the scenario has changed, local sources said.
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Jagannath Univ bans smoking
Sales and promotion of tobacco products on the Jagannath University campus will be prohibited, said the university vice-chancellor, Professor Abu Hossain Siddique, at an awareness campaign on Tuesday.
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Irrigation in about 16pc land under threat
Sharp fall in underground water level will make about 3 lakh shallow tube wells inoperative during the peak boro season hampering its cultivation on 8 lakh hectares, which is about 16 per cent of total arable land. Sources of the Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation said on Monday that this problem would ultimately reduce boro production by about 28 lakh tonnes.
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$109 million cyclone recovery project signed
The government on Sunday sign-ed a financing agreement for
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Poultry farmers face setback in Lalmonirhat
Over 100 poultry farms have faced closure in Sadar and Hatibandha upazilas of Lalmonirhat in the last few months. The businessmen who once became solvent through running the business are now passing days with anxiety of how to recover their extensive losses.
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Food poisoning causes 2.1m deaths
An estimated 2.1 million people die in the world annually from food poisoning and of other food-borne diseases, participants in a seminar in Dhaka said on Wednesday.
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FAO to help 11,000 flood-affected farmers with seeds, fertilisers
The Food and Agricultural Organisation has undertaken a project to provide more than 11,000 flood-affected farmers with seeds and fertilisers during the upcoming boro season, agriculture ministry sources said.
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Awareness among people of climate change impacts stressed
Speakers at a workshop on Tuesday stressed the need for generating alternative livelihood along with adaptation to climate change and mitigation of its impacts. They also underscored the need for raising awareness among the people about impacts of climate change on livelihood and food security, and generating alternative livelihood taking the climate change issues into account.
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Smuggled spurious fertilisers pose threat to agriculture
Indian substandard non-urea fertilisers are being smuggled into the country in a large scale posing a serious threat to the agriculture as their use will cut production drastically, DAE officials, importers and dealers said.
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Govt to allocate additional money to face impact of climate change
The government will provide Tk 500 crore in addition to budgeted Tk 300 crore to mitigate the impacts of climate change, the special assistant to the chief adviser for environment, Raja Debashish Roy, informed a seminar in the city on Sunday. Debashish said a separate cell was being opened in the key ministries to deal with the problems caused by the climate change.