Agriculture
Litchi farming bringing more profit to growers
Litchi farming in Pabna has flourished in the last few decades due to its luring profit.
Climate Smart Gardening: A source of nutrition for many poor families
Marium Begum and her husband Abdul Barek have nothing else but only six decimals of land as their asset.
Boro harvesting of haor areas almost done
4.38 lakh out of 4.53 lakh hectares have already been harvested
HEAVY RAINFALL LIKELY / Haor farmers advised to harvest rice quickly
The agriculture ministry has advised farmers in seven northeastern haor districts to harvest paddy that has reached 80 percent maturity to protect the crop from heavy rainfalls
Boro Harvest: Good yields bring joy to haor farmers
Farmers in Sunamganj are passing busy days harvesting Boro paddy, which is their staple crop.
There is a risk of heat shock in Boro paddy in Gazipur: agri officials
There is a risk of heat shock in Boro paddy in Gazipur as a severe heatwave has been sweeping over the country, agriculture officials said
Ongoing heatwave raises concerns over Boro yield
The heatwave that has been sweeping across the country for over two weeks has raised concerns regarding agricultural production, particularly vegetables, mango and Boro paddy that are in the flowering and grain formation stages.
Dinajpur farmers reel from drought-like situation
Unusually high temperatures and a lack of rain have created drought-like conditions in Dinajpur and Rangpur.
Low capsicum price frustrates grower
After being inspired by watching some videos on YouTube twenty-two-year-old Hridoy Miah cultivated hybrid variety of capsicum on char land but getting extremely frustrated due to low price of the item this season.
Commodity market monitoring to continue: Titu
There is ample supply of basic goods, the state minister for commerce says
Shop owners lambast ‘meaningless’ price fixing of 29 commodities
They demand cancellation of the prices fixed by the Department of Agricultural Marketing on March 15
India to source onion from domestic market to export to Bangladesh
India’s National Cooperative Export Ltd will purchase 1,650 tonnes at Rs 29 a kg
Cashew nut farming in plain land
Although much of the cashew nut consumed in the country is cultivated in the hilly areas, a few are showing that it can be grown in the plain land.
Little initiative, significant outcome
Now they not only have a house, but found a way of earning their livelihood as well.
Climate resilient agriculture
Even three years back, vast lands would remain barren throughout most of the year in Koyra upazila of Khulna due to high level of salinity in the nearby rivers and waterbodies.
Fields of dust
Agriculture was his life. But that life, like countless others, has been uprooted by the harsh reality of climate change.
Strawberry farming: Jahid shows the way
It was only a few months ago when Jahid Hasan Basunia first started cultivating strawberries, but none of his neighbours had the idea on how to grow the juicy fruit.
Government fixes date prices for Ramadan
Price of low grade dates will be Tk 150 to Tk 165 a kg
