Bogura green chillies capitalise on India supply gap

BOGURA, Feb 15: Bogura's famously pungent green chilies are carving out a growing presence in international markets, capitalising on a supply gap created by India's withdrawal from key Middle Eastern export destinations.Over the past three months, about 1,500 tonnes of green and dried chilies from the northern district have been...

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Farmlands become useless for some crops, fertility declines for others

CHANDPUR, Feb 15: Soil traders have been indiscriminately extracting topsoil from Chandpur's remote farmlands for the past several months, which, experts say, has been leaving those lands uncultivable for some crops and less fertile for others.Illegal soil extraction continued during the winter in the district's Faridgonj, Kachua, Hajiganj, Matlab Uttar...

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Cumilla, Gopalganj road crashes kill three

A total of three persons were killed in separate road accidents in Cumilla and Gopalganj district on Sunday, report agencies.In Cumilla, two people were killed and seven others were injured when a bus hit an auto-rickshaw and plunged into a roadside ditch on Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Daudkandi upazila of Cumilla...

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