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Fruit bagging method helps produce quality mangoes

NATORE, June 30: Hundreds of mango farmers in Lalpur upazila of the district have started getting benefits by applying fruits bagging method this season.The farmers of the upazila have taken some 0.5 million mango under the fruits bagging method this season. Cultivators imported the bag from China with the help...

Aman cultivation going on in full swing in Tangail

TANGAIL, July 02: Farmer of all the 12 upazilas of the district is passing busy time to grow Aman paddy. The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), Tangail, sources said so far 16,500 hectares of land have already been brought under the farming of Aman which is about 60 per cent...

Bumper yield, fair prices delight jackfruit farmers

MAGURA, July 02: A bumper jackfruits production has been achieved in the district this season.Growers of the fruit are also delighted as they are getting a fair market price.The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), Magura, sources said the popular fruit was grown on 1,650 hectares of land in the district.Total...

Construction of country's largest river transport repair factory becomes uncertain

KHULNA, July 02 (UNB): The construction of the country's largest river transport repair factory has become uncertain for various reasons.According to sources, the fund allocated in the last year's national budget for the factory along with a river transport training institute on the bank of the Rupsha river could not...

Zero tillage increases output, reduces costs: Experts

RANGPUR, July 02 (BSS): Experts at a summit workshop in the district laid emphasis on adoption of zero tillage (ZT) in rice-wheat farming to increase food production. They said it saves costs of labour, irrigation and fuel.They expressed the views at the workshop titled ZT Seeder Summit under 'Value chain...

Rotarians for inspiring students in tree plantation

RAJSHAHI, July 02 (BSS): School level tree plantation has a bigger role towards inspiring the students to more tree plantation leading to protecting environment from further degradation.This is the time of making the tree plantation popular among the teachers, guardians and students to sustainable reduction of carbon emission coupled with...

Flood renders 100 families homeless

SIRAJGANJ, July 02 (UNB): Hundreds of houses of seven villages and crops of around three hundred hectares of land under Chouhali upazila in the district were inundated in floodwater.Hundreds of families of these areas, living near the bank of the Jamuna, were found being surrounded by the waterlogging.People were spotted...

Sunamganj boat capsize kills two

SUNAMGANJ, July 02 (UNB): Two people, including a woman, were killed and five others injured as a boat capsized in Jorsingha haor in South Sunamganj upazila due to strong waves on Sunday.The deceased are Hosne Ara, 26, wife of Sajidur Rahman hailing from Ukargaon village in the upazila, and Emdadul...