New technology helps grow paddy as co-crop with sugarcane

Motiar Rahman PABNA, May 17: Agriculture scientists have innovated a new technology of cultivating paddy as co-crop with sugarcane attaining a unique success in the cost-effective production of the two crops in the same place together. Sugarcane is a long-term and profitable crop that takes more than a year to...

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Hundreds of dead fish float in Meghna

CHANDPUR, May 17 (UNB): The tranquil waters of the mighty Meghna River have turned into a graveyard for aquatic life once again. From early Friday morning, hundreds of lifeless fish of various indigenous species were seen floating along the riverbanks stretching from Shatnol to Dashani in Matlab Uttar upazila, triggering...

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Khulna road accident kills three

OUR CORRESPONDENTKHULNA, May 17: Three people including two teachers were killed and four others were injured in a head-on-collision between an oil-tanker and a human hauler at Golna in Dumuria upazila of Khulna district on Saturday.The deceased were identified as Rafiqul Islam Gazi, driver of the human hauler and two...

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