PANCHAGARH, Apr 07 (BSS): Farmers in the district have started harvesting wheat amid an expectation of achieving a bumper production of the crop in the current season. Sources with the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) said the farmers are happy with the output and the newly harvest wheat is being...
Read moreOur Correspondent MAGURA, Apr 07: A bumper production of lentil has failed to bring smile on the faces of farmers in the district due to the low market price.A good number of farmers said lentil production cost has increased by 20 per cent this season. On the other, the produce...
Read moreOur Correspondent NILPHAMARI, Apr 07: The Barind Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA) is supplying pure drinking water to the village people where arsenic contamination in water is very high. They installed as many as 10 deep tubewells (DTW) in the district out of which four DTW are in Saidpur upazila, two...
Read moreIqbal SiddiqueeSYLHET, Apr 07: A good number of young people in the district are showing their interest in modern farming.Among them son of a national award winner wants to be a model farmer in Sylhet city suburban area of Dakshin Surma upazila. Abdus Sobur Sujam prepares vermicompost on his agri...
Read moreKHULNA, Apr 07 (BSS): Three people, including a child, were killed and eight others injured in a road accident at Dumuria Upazila on Khulna-Satkhira highway on Saturday.The deceased were identified as driver of the rickshaw van Asafur Rahman, 35, and van passengers Naryan Mondal, 55, and Sakibul, 9.OC of Dumuria...
Read moreOur CorrespondentBOGURA, Apr 07: Commercial okra farming has been going on in full swing in the district this season.According to sub-assistance agriculture officer of DAE Faridur Rahman, over 1,290 hectares of land have been brought under the farming of the vegetable.Okra is being sold at Tk 30 to Tk 40...
Read moreRANGPUR, Apr 07 (BSS): Experts at a farmers' field day function here have laid emphasis on expanded cultivation of pests' attack resistant 'Bacillus Thuringensis (BT)" brinjal to earn more profits and save public health.They put importance on adoption of the latest technologies for production of breeder seeds of the human-health...
Read moreOur CorrespondentRANGPUR, Apr 07: Bamboo clusters are disappearing fast from all the 8 upazilas of Rangpur district because of indiscriminate felling of bamboos and lack of initiatives for its planned growth. Bamboos are essential both for construction of huts and building, fencing of houses and boundary walls as well as...
Read moreOur CorrespondentRAJSHAHI, Apr 07: Black cumin (Nigella Sativa) - a versatile spice bearing characteristics of curing various diseases for more than 2,000 years, is being successfully cultivated by a farmer in Raninagar upazila of greater Rajshahi district. Black cumin which is called 'Kalojira' in Bangla is an essential ingredient of...
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