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BADC sets up 34 more low lift irrigation pumps in Sylhet

SYLHET, Dec 26: With a view to extending irrigation facilities to croplands, some 34 new low lift pumps (LLPs) would be installed in Sylhet district under the minor irrigation development programme this season. It would help produce winter crops including Boro paddy in Sylhet district in the coming year, an...

Bumper output makes chilli farmers happy

BOGURA, Dec 26: Bumper yield of chilli has made hundreds of grassroots peasants in the district happy this season. Sources said chilli production in the district has exceeded all the records in the past. Around 35 maunds of chilli have been achieved from a bigha of land this year while...

80,690 hectares of land to come under Boro farming in Gopalganj

GOPALGANJ, Dec 26: The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) in the district has taken a massive programme to grow Boro paddy on 80,690 hectares of land this season with a production target of 3,98,742 tonnes of paddy.According to officials sources, of the total, hybrid variety will be cultivated on 50,640...

BR west zone implements 10 development projects

RAJSHAHI, Dec 26 (BSS): The west zone of Bangladesh Railway (BR) has implemented more than 10 development projects involving around Tk 77.83 billion to infuse dynamism into railway transportation along with boosting quality of services."We have implemented diversified infrastructural uplift works like construction of new railway line, station remodeling and...

Rajshahi growers eye 0.22m tonnes of mustard yield

RAJSHAHI, Dec 26 (BSS): Field-level agricultural extension officials and scientists concerned along with the growers are expecting a good yield of mustard seed this season as the government has taken various steps to increase its production.Nabibur Rahman, a farmer of Haripur village under Paba upazila, said the cash crop is...

REB completes electrification in 8,539 Rangpur villages

RANGPUR, Dec 26 (BSS): The Rural Electrification Board (REB) has brought 8,539 villages of Rangpur division under electricity coverage in last ten years improving human resources, rural economy and life-style of the rural people.After the rural electrification, entrepreneurs are establishing power-run cottage, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and agro-based industries...