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AgrotechAt Chandani in Rajbari Sadar, Bachchumia turns his family's wooden oil presses with a rotating rig built from auto-rickshaw parts instead of a bullock, cutting labour; each press crushes about 30-35 kg of mustard a day for 8-10 kg of oil.
A trawler from Hatiya in Noakhali returned from six days in the Bay of Bengal with about 60 maunds of hilsa, auctioned in three rounds for nearly Tk 20 lakh at Chairman Ghat.
A hilsa weighing 2 kg 750 g was sold for Tk 13,250 at Motirhat fish ghat in Kamalnagar, Laxmipur, to a Dhaka fish trader.
FisheriesThe Department of Fisheries cancelled 103 no-objection certificates for hilsa imports on 22 September, stopping imports through Benapole; 535 tonnes of the 1,739.50 tonnes allowed this fiscal year had arrived.
