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Orange farming on rooftop gaining momentum

NAOGAON, Jan 11: Orange cultivation on a rooftop orchard is gaining momentum across the district with the help of local agriculture offices.According to the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), some people have started growing the juicy fruit and getting a satisfactory yield. A good number of people in the area...

Rangpur fishermen facing scarcity of fishes

RANGPUR, Jan 11: Sufferings of the fishermen under the district have mounted as they are facing serious trouble in running their profession owing to dearth of fishes in different water bodies of the region.According to sources owing to scarcity of the fish in rivers and other water bodies it has...

Residents of 10 villages suffer due to lack of concrete bridge

RAJSHAHI, Jan 11: Due to absence of a concrete bridge, residents of 10 villages under Biyaghat union under Gurudaspur upazila of Natore district used to cross the Atrai river through a dilapidated bamboo made bridge by risking their lives.It is learnt, people of those ten villages have been demanding a...

Foot overbridge at Modhuban yields no benefit for pedestrians

SYLHET, Jan 11: The steel structure foot overbridge set in Sylhet city's Modhuban point area gave no benefit as the pedestrians got no interest using it. Rather, after its setting, the traffic police had to withdraw their post on the point while a number of fruit vendors took their possession...

Bottle gourd cultivation improves livelihood of Bogra marginal peasants

BOGRA, Jan 11: Bottle gourd cultivation has changed the livelihood of hundreds of poor and marginal peasants in all the 12 upazilas of the district.Sources said a good number of farmers have shown more interest to bring the new cropland under the vegetable cultivation as it's proved them more lucrative...

Riverbeds give green look with crops in N-region

RANGPUR, Jan 11 (BSS): The tender crop plants are growing excellent on the dried-up riverbeds and char lands now giving those areas a greenish look in Rangpur agriculture region on the Brahmaputra basin. Officials of the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) said char people have cultivated crops on over 86,000...

Mustard production decreases in Naogaon district

NAOGAON, Jan 11: Mustard cultivation has deceased in the district this season due to monsoon and unfavourable climate condition. Sources at the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) said this season around 27,500 hectares of land have been brought under mustard farming in the district against the previous year's cultivation of...

Cold injury affects Boro in Nilphamari

NILPHAMARI, Jan 11: Plant disease particularly cold injury affected seedlings in Boro seedbeds in the district as severe cold and foggy weather continuing for weeks.Amulya Sen, block supervisor of Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), said they are advising the farmers to remove dew from the Boro paddy seedlings by using...

Dinajpur, Gazipur road accidents claim two lives

DINAJPUR, Jan 11 (BSS): A motorcyclist was killed as a truck hit his motorcycle in Sadar upazila on Thursday.The deceased was identified as Mizanur Rahman Patwari, 40, was a resident in Kajol village under Birganj upazila.Police said the accident took place at around 11 am in Basherhat area on Dinajpur-Dashmile...

Vice Chancellor of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur Prof Dr Nazmul Ahsan Kalimullah and president of AIBS Prof Dr Golam Matbar sign MoU

Vice Chancellor of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur Prof Dr Nazmul Ahsan Kalimullah and president of American Institute of Bangladesh Studies (AIBS) Prof Dr Golam Matbar sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on behalf of their respective organisation at a programme at the liaison office of BRUR in the capital on...