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Onion harvest starts in Gopalganj, Manikganj

GOPALGANJ, Apr 04: Onion farmers of Muksudpur upazila of the district are passing busy time as they have started harvesting the produce recently.According to the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), Gopalganj, the crop was cultivated on 2,825 hectares of land with the production target of 29,612 tonnes in the district.Farmer...

LGED to build eight bridges in Sylhet

SYLHET, Apr 04: With a target to strengthening rural road link network on the remote bordering areas of the district, a total of eight bridges would be built at a cost of Tk 2.0 billion by the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED), official sources said.The project was approved at the...

Mymensingh, Khulna, Chattogram road accidents kill seven

A total of seven people killed in separate road accidents in three districts - Mymensingh, Khulna and Chattogram on Wednesday, report agencies.In Mymensingh, three people, including a couple, were killed and two others injured as a private car hit a truck in bypass area of the district town on Wednesday...

Good wheat output delights Rangpur growers

RANGPUR, Apr 04: A good yield of wheat has made the growers of Rangpur division delighted during the current season.Farmers and DAE officials have attributed the achievement to congenial weather condition, timely supply of agri-inputs and efforts by the department.According to DAE official sources harvesting of the crop is going...

Experts for promoting less-water consuming crops in Barind region

RAJSHAHI, Apr 04 (BSS): Agriculture specialists stressed her on promotion of less-irrigation consuming cereal crops instead of depending on only Irri-Boro farming in Barind area. They said, promotion of less-water consuming crops could be the effective means of mitigating the condition of water crisis in the Barind area.The observation came...

Sweet pumpkin cultivators happy over market rate

BOGURA, Apr 04: Sweet pumpkin cultivators of the district are satisfied over the present market price.To grow the vegetable on a bigha of land farmers need Tk 2,000 to Tk 4,000 as the production cost. Profit over Tk 20,000 to Tk 25,000 can be made from the same land, said...