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Indiscriminate firewood burning in Rangpur brickfields poses a threat to reserve forests

RANGPUR, Jan 21: Indiscriminate burning of firewood in brickfields of the district has become a threat to reserve forests and environment. A large number of trees of the reserve forests under the region are being cut everyday, sources said. According to concerned sources more than 185 brick kilns have been...

Farmers eye good potato yield in N-region

RAJSHAHI, Jan 21 (BSS): Farmers and others concerned are hopeful about a good potato yield in the region in the current season as overall climatic condition remains favorable for the farming since its initial stage. With the hope of making profit like the previous season, the farmers in the have...

Pumpkin farming going on in Bogra river basin area

BOGRA, Jan 21: Hundreds of poor and marginal farmers of Jamuna, Bangalee and Nagore rivers basin of the district are expecting to make a good profit from pumpkin cultivation.Excellent growing of the vegetable is predicting a bumper production this season, said farmer Aminur Rahman of Sarikandi upazila. According to the...

245 hectares of land come under garlic production in Joypurhat

JOYPURHAT, Jan 21: Garlic peasants of the district are eyeing a bumper production this season amid a favourable weather condition. The plants are growing well across the district as the local agri office has provided all sort of necessary support to the farmers. Growers are expecting to harvest the spicy...

Satisfactory wheat output likely in Rajshahi

RAJSHAHI, Jan 21 (BSS): Farmers and others concerned, including agriculturists, are very much optimistic about the overall wheat production during the current season in the region particularly the vast Barind tract.Nomanul Islam Razib, 45, a farmer of Gogram village under Godagari Upazila, is now happy over witnessing the wheat growing...

Miscreants stab schoolboy to death in Khulna

KHULNA, Jan 21 (BSS) - A seventh-grader student of Khulna Public School and College was stabbed to death in Boyra Bazar area under Khalishpur police station in the city on Saturday night.Fahmid Tanvir Razin, 13, hailed from Hitampur village under Paikgachha upazila in the district, was the son of Zahangir...

Magura achieves rice procurement target this year

MAGURA, Jan 21: Aman procurement target has achieved in the district. The district food office sources said they started the drive on January 03 and the procurement target was 201 tonnes. A total of nine millers supplied rice at the rate of Tk 39 per kg. Though the last date...

A farmer instals a pheromone trap

A farmer instals a pheromone trap in a winter vegetable field in Jaintapur upazila of Sylhet. — FE Photo

Director of President Abdul Hamid Medical College distributes blankets among the poor

Director of President Abdul Hamid Medical College Rasel Ahmed Tuhin distributes blankets among the poor at a programme in Kishoreganj Sadar recently. A total of 5,000 blankets were distributed among the distressed people of the upazila.