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BMDA connects water pumps with solar panels for smooth irrigation

RAJSHAHI, Dec 25: The Barind Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA) has started connecting the water pumps with solar panels to ensure a smooth supply of water for farmers without any worry of load shedding. Those solar panels were irrigating water direct to the crop filed from the canals dug or re-excavated...

Landless peasants expect bumper output of groundnut in Bogra

BOGRA, Dec 25: Hundred of landless peasants of the district are expecting a bumper production of groundnut this season.According to the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) office sources, over 3000 hectares of land have been brought under the farming of groundnut this year with the production target of 9,000 maunds.Farmers...

Tough day for Rangpur bamboo craft artisans

RANGPUR, Dec 25: A good number of extreme poor families of the district engaged in making household appliances from bamboo are passing their days in acute misery as such products are losing appeal in recent times.According sources the cottage industries based on bamboo, cane and some other fibrous plants are...

19,000 flood-hit Sylhet farmers receive incentives

SYLHET, Dec 25: Distribution of incentives among the flood affected poor and marginal farmers was concluded recently in the Sylhet division. Already about listed 19,000 farmers got it, an official informed.The listed farmers were given Tk 15368,000 in incentives for farming of some selected crops this time in four districts...

BSCIC creates employment for 12,572 people in Rajshahi

RAJSHAHI, Dec 25 (BSS): The industrial estate of Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) in Rajshahi has created mployment scopes of more than 12,572 people in various trades in last nine years.The people got the jobs in various fields like enterprise development, skill development and training, industry ownership transfer...

Construction of Sheikh Hasina Road going on in full swing in B’baria

BRAHMANBARIA, Dec 25: Construction of Sheikh Hasina Road under the Second Rural Transport Improvement Project (RTIP-2) of the Local Government and Engineering Department (LGED) is going on in full swing under Sadar and Bijaynagar upazilas of the district.Senior assistant engineer of LGED, Brahmanbaria, Md Abdur Razzak said, "We are trying...

N-region growers to start mustard harvest next month

RAJSHAHI, Dec 25 (BSS): Growers are expecting good yield of mustard seed this season. Mamunur Rashid, a farmer of Chanduria Namopara village under Tanore upazila, said the cash crop is now growing well everywhere in the region due to appropriate measures by authorities concerned and favourable weather. "We are harvesting...

Motorcyclist dies in Chuadanga road crash

CHUADANGA, Dec 25 (UNB): A motorcyclist was killed in a head-on collision between a human hauler and his vehicle in Noymile area of Alamdanga upazila on Monday morning.The human hauler (locally named as tractor) collided head-on with the motorcycle ridden by Rashedul Islam, son of Razzak Biswas of Panchkomolapur village,...

Two girls rejoicing in a mustard field

GAIBANDHA: Two girls rejoicing in a mustard field under Ghagoa upazila on Monday. — Focus Bangla

Arum farming

Arum farming has increased in different areas of Habiganj. The photo shows an arum field in Lakhai upazila on Monday. — FE Photo