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Farmers in Joypurhat say they wait for days at cold-store gates and cannot get storage cards while traders' potatoes are loaded in at night, despite a government cap on rent.
Kolkata's markets are full of imported and local dates this Ramadan, but high prices have slowed sales, and traders hope demand will pick up as the month goes on.
A madrasa-educated young man in Kishoreganj's Hossainpur has found success growing cucumber on fallow land next to his home, helped by good market prices this season.
Sugarcane farmers in Barishal's Babuganj are working all day to meet Ramadan demand for the adulteration-free molasses they make beside their fields.
Demand for fruit has soared in Ramadan, and with imported fruit costly, Dhaka shoppers are buying local fruit instead, though they complain its prices have also climbed.
Dr Forkan Ali describes how the Mymensingh Aquaculture Extension Project, begun in 1990, used demonstration ponds, loans, training and later NGO partnerships to spread improved fish farming.
Excessive flower and fruit drop cuts yields, but it can be reduced by managing water, nutrients, pests and pollination, and by avoiding sprays while trees are pollinating.
Sea piracy has largely ended around Barguna's Patharghata, but the area's hilsa fishermen remain trapped in poverty by debt, advance-payment chains, disasters and a lack of credit.
Two young entrepreneurs who planted strawberries on a vast Teesta sandbar in Kurigram's Ulipur face heavy losses after seedlings of the wrong quality failed to deliver the yield they expected.
Beli, a fragrant flower used in bouquets and garlands, can be grown in fields or tubs with the right soil, spacing, irrigation and yearly pruning.
Lychee orchards in Ishwardi, where the fruit supports more than a lakh people, have few buds this season, and growers fear the worst crop failure they can remember.
At Nazirartek near Cox's Bazar, the country's largest dried-fish village, thousands of fishing families work from dawn to turn the sea's catch into shutki, with daily trade worth crores of taka.
Watermelon sellers at Mymensingh's Shambhuganj bazar refuse to sell by the piece and are charging up to Tk 90 a kg, leaving many buyers to go home without one.
