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Sunamganj growers fear standing crop may go under water

SYLHET, Apr 25: Standing Boro paddy on about 5,000 acres land may go inundated, apprehended a number of farmers.Sources said some breaches have been developed during the last two days on the crop protection embankment erected on Najarkhali closure at Tanguar haor under Tahirpur Upazila of Sunamganj.A villager from Golabari...

Farmers of northern region busy with veg farming

RAJSHAHI, Apr 25 (BSS): Farmers are passing busy days with vegetable farming of the current Kharif season. In the current dry season, they are happy with their good yields with less irrigation water following a couple of rains experienced.According to the agriculturists, the growers are now busy with vegetable farming...

Peanut production gets momentum in B'baria

BRAHMANBARIA, Apr 25 (UNB): Peanut farming is gaining popularity among the farmers in the upazila as they can cultivate it at a little cost as well as can make good profit.Like previous years, the farmers are expecting good yield of peanut in the current season.According to the Department of Agriculture...

BMDA supplies safe drinking water to drought-hit Barind region

RAJSHAHI, Apr 25 (BSS): Around 1.3 million people are getting safe drinking water through pipelines in drought-hit Barind region.The Barind Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA) is now supplying the drinking water among people under a project titled 'Drinking Piped Water Supply from Irrigation Deep Tube-wells'.The BMDA has already installed various infrastructures,...

Boro harvest going on in full swing in Tangail

TANGAIL, Apr 25: Boro harvest is going on in full swing in all the twelve upazilas of the district.Farmers are expecting a bumper production of the crop.The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), Tangail, said 1,70,623 hectares were brought under the farming of Boro with the production target of 6,53,365 tonnes....

Training course for industrial entrepreneurs starts in Rajshahi

RAJSHAHI, Apr 25: A three-day industrial entrepreneur development training course organised by Shilpa Sahayak Kendro, BSCIC, Rajshahi, started at the BSCIC regional office conference room in the city on Tuesday. Presided over by Tamanna Rahman, deputy general manager of BSCIC, Rajshahi, the training was inaugurated by Engineer Azaharul Islam, regional...

3,710 hectares of land come under jute cultivation

NARSINGDI, Apr 25 (BSS): The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has taken up a programme to cultivate Jute on 3,710 hectares of land in the district with the production target of 35,900 bales during the current season.Official sources said, Tosa variety would be cultivated in 2,230 hectares, Masta in 120...

Two girls drown in Jhenaigati

SHERPUR, Apr 25 (BSS): Two minor girls drowned in a river at Batiagaon Shonarpara village under Jhenaigati upazila of the district on Wednesday.The girls were identified as Tania, 8, daughter of Chan Miah and Sumaiya, 7, daughter of Sirajul Islam, residents of the same village.Officer-in-Charge of Jhenaigati police station Biplob...

Road accident kills one in Faridpur

FARIDPUR, Apr 25 (BSS): A man was killed in a road accident in Alimuzzaman Bridge area of the district town on Wednesday.The identity of the deceased could not be known immediately.Police said the accident took place at noon in the area when a running truck ran over a motorbike, leaving...

Construction of 122 bridges progressing fast

MYMENSINGH, Apr 25 (BSS): The Department of Relief and Rehabilitation has been implementing 122 rural bridges at a cost of Taka 41 crore in the district during the current fiscal. District Relief and Rehabilitation Officer (DRRO) Mohammed Hossain told the news agency bridges have been constructed under the supervision of...

DAE officials showing a demonstration plot of high yielding maize named 'Kohinur'

DAE officials showing a demonstration plot of high yielding maize named 'Kohinur' in Beanibazar of Sylhet on Wednesday — FE Photo

CCC Mayor AJM Nasir Uddin is inaugurating the Eid Extravaganza

Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) Mayor AJM Nasir Uddin is inaugurating the Eid Extravaganza organised by Lamore Event Planner at a hotel in the port city recently as the chief guest. The four-day exhibition started on April 19 where dresses, bags, shoes and jewellery items were showcased.