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Bumper output delights bottle gourd peasants

JOYPURHAT, Nov 05: Bottle gourd farmers in the district are making handsome profit this season for fair market prices.Farming of the vegetable was started in the area in September last and growers started harvesting the produce from the last couple of weeks. Traders from other neighbouring districts have started visiting...

Jhenidah Savings Bureau, Postal Dept sell Tk 15.38b savings tools in three months

JHENIDAH, Nov 05: Jhenidah Savings Bureau and Postal Department sold savings certificates worth Tk 15.38 billion in three months-July August, September, against their target of Tk 26.95 billion in FY 2018-19.Jhenidah Savings Bureau sold savings certificates of Tk 307.10 million while they had a yearly target of Tk 850 million.In...

Locals suffer in absence of a bridge over Chikli river

RANGPUR, Nov 05: The people of different villages under Badarganj upazila in the district have long been suffering a lot in absence of a permanent bridge over the river Chikli at Vangrirghat area of Damodarpur union in the upazila.Around 30,000 people of 15 villages are being compelled to depend on...

Low income group throng footpath clothe markets as winter approaching

RAJSHAHI, Nov 05: As the winter is approaching in Rajshahi at a slow pace, hundreds of low income-group of people are seen to throng at the footpaths' warm clothes make-shift markets of various places of the city. It is learnt, the shivering cold of winter season has not yet gripped...

WASA to implement Tk 40.62b project in Rajshahi city

RAJSHAHI, Nov 05 (BSS): The Rajshahi Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (RWASA) is going to implement a mega project for providing treated water to people of the city and its outskirts.The project titled 'Rajshahi WASA Surface Water Treatment Plant' will be implemented with an estimated cost of Tk 40.62 billion.Upon...

Khulna eyes bumper Aman paddy yield

KHULNA, Nov 05 (BSS): Farmers are expecting to have a bumper Aman paddy production in the district this season.DAE officials said they are expecting a record yield of Aman due to favourable weather, availability of fertiliser and insecticides.The sources said, farmers have successfully cultivated Aman paddy on 92,425 hectares of...

High prices help early-winter veg growers make good profit

MANIKGANJ, Nov 05 (UNB): Farmers of the district are satisfied over the prices they have received so far for their produce in the early part of the winter. High demand for a variety of winter vegetables grown by the farmers has helped them earn healthy profits.During a recent visit, this...