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1,200 female artisans weave hand net on own initiative in Bogra

BOGRA, Jan 20: Around 1200 extreme poor female artisans have become self-reliant weaving hand net with private initiative in Bogra district from last decade.According to local source the women were passing sorry time few years back as they were had no own crop land for rendering agriculture enterprise. After engaging...

Magura spinach growers eye Tk 50m profit this season

Our Correspondent MAGURA, Jan 18: Magura spinach growers are expecting to make a profit of Tk 50 million this season.Sources said a bumper production of the leafy vegetable has achieved in the district. Growers are also happy over the market price. Spinach is being sold at Tk 20 per kg...

Boro farming starts in Nilphamari

NILPHAMARI, Jan 20: Cultivation of Boro paddy has started in Nilphamari and it would continue for another next two months or so. The Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) sources said this year 79,443 hectares of land have been brought under the farming of Boro with the production target of 329671...

100 PICs begin work on crop protection embankments in Sunamganj

Our CorrespondentSUNAMGANJ, Jan 20: Most of the Project Implementation Committees (PIC) couldn't yet start work on the crop protection embankments due to negligence of officials and delay in water recession in district's haors as yet.Only a hundred out of the 837 PICs started works till Saturday, sources informed. It wouldn't...

Onion cultivation goes on in Muksudpur

Our CorrespondentGOPALGANJ, Jan 20: A good number of farmers in Muksudpur upazila under the district are now passing busy time as onion cultivation has started this season.The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), Gopalganj, is monitoring the overall progress of the farming. It has ensured smooth supply of fertilisers, pesticides and...

Focus on technical education for national development

RAJSHAHI, Jan 20 (BSS): Speakers at a seminar in the district on Saturday said technical and vocational education and training among the youths, both male and female, are important for transforming the country into a middle-income nation. They viewed technical education could be effective means for building competent and skilled...

C'nawabganj road accident kills couple

CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Jan 20 (BSS): A man and his wife were killed in a road accident at Ranihati on the Chapainawabganj-Sonamasjid Highway under Shibganj upazila in Chapainawabganj district on Saturday noon.The deceased were identified as Aslam Uddin alias Enamul, 65, and his wife Miniara Begum, 55, residents of Islampur area of...

Director General of Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute

Director General of Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute (BARI) Dr Abul Kalam Azad distributes blankets among the poor at a programme on the Officer's Club premises in Gazipur on Thursday. — FE Photo