Poor find no work to defray family costs amid curfew

People on low incomes, especially day-labourers, across districts have been leading a miserable life in near starvation, as they found no work for the past three days amid the ongoing countrywide curfew.In Rangpur, thousands of rickshaw-pullers, day-labourers, street vendors or hawkers, roadside shopkeepers, sellers of fruits, vegetables, clothes, shoes and...

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Bumper Boro yield brings smile to Chandpur farmers

CHANDPUR, July 24: Local farmers have expressed satisfaction over the massive production of Boro paddy this season due to favourable weather and easy availability of agri inputs.Now, farmers fear they would not get the fair price of their produce in local markets, agriculture officer Mobarak Hossain has told the FE."There...

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Basabari Bazar: Country's largest arum market

BENAPOLE, July 24: Basabari Bazar in Sharsha upazila of Jashore district is the largest wholesale arum (mukhi kachu) market in the country.Local farmers sell lakhs of takas of mukhi kachu every day from morning till midnight in this market. They directly sell the agricultural product to the traders. Traders from...

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