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Good bean yield brings smile on Rangpur dist growers' faces

RANGPUR, Nov 24: A good yield of bean has brought smile on the faces of growers across Rangpur district during the current season.According to Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), Rangpur official sources bean has been cultivated on around 600 hectares of lands this year, which is about 100 hectares more...

Low market price disheartens chili growers in Bogura

BOGURA, Nov 24: Low market price, despite ample production, has disheartened chili growers in Bogura district this season. Each maund of the spice is being sold at Tk 500 to 600 against Tk 700 production cost.They had made a good profit the previous year, said farmer Hazifur Rahman Bhanduria village...

Farmers happy over T-Aman production in Jhenidah

JHENIDAH, Nov 24: Farmers of Jhenidah are now busy harvesting Transplanted Aman (T-Aman) paddy they are happy over the yield.According the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) sources, around 64 per cent of the paddy has already been harvested here. The total production target of T-Aman paddy was 0.28 million tonnes,...

Date juice extraction on at Bagha UZ of Rajshahi

RAJSHAHI, Nov 24: With the winter approaching, the Gachhis - men engaged in trimming branches of date trees and extracting juice - have become active in the district including at Bagha and Charghat upazilas. For thousands of years, date juice and sweet, aromatic date-juice cake made by boiling the juice...

Dredging on Sunamganj waterways starts soon

SYLHET, Nov 24: With a target to resolving the long standing water stagnancy on a vast haor in Jamalganj upazila of Sunamganj, the Water Development Board (WDB) would soon dredge a canal and its attached river. It would help farming of Boro paddy on about 6,000 hectares of land around...

Road crashes kill five in three districts

SAVAR, Nov 24 (UNB): Three people, including a mother and her son, were killed and another was injured in separate road crashes in Majidpur and Ashulia areas on Saturday.The deceased were identified as Jhuma Khatun, 22, wife of Sohel Mia of Shivalaya Manikganj, their son Abdullah and Mahela Khatun, 45.In...

Elderly woman among two found dead in Rajbari, Sylhet

Police recovered the bodies of two people, including that of an elderly woman, in Rajbari and Sylhet districts early Saturday, reports UNB.In Rajbari, a throat-silt body of an elderly woman was recovered from her house at Danga Hatimahan village in Baliakandi upazila around 4 am.The deceased was identified as Nurjahan...