Agribusiness
Correct Use of Guti Urea: Final Part
The final part of our guide to guti urea covers randomly planted rice, other crops and how briquettes outperform prilled urea.
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Agribusiness
Biofertiliser Meets the Need for Urea
A microbial biofertiliser developed by BINA supplies the nitrogen that pulse and oilseed crops would otherwise get from urea.
Agribusiness
Correct Use of Guti Urea: Part One
Deep-placed guti urea more than doubles urea efficiency and raises rice yields by 20-25 percent, and this first part explains how to apply it.
Agribusiness
Bees Visit Two Million Flowers to Make a Pound of Honey
Producing one pound of honey takes bees about two million flowers and some 80,000 km of flight, and their pollination supports a third of our food.
Agribusiness
If You Want to Raise Turmeric Production
Turmeric output could rise with BARI varieties, and a locally made polishing machine can replace slow hand-beating after harvest.
Flowers
Wildflowers Blooming in Neglect
A Noakhali university student photographs the neglected wildflowers that bloom by roadsides and in the woods.
Fruits
Dragon Fruit Changes a Farmer's Fortune
A Kaliganj farmer who wanted to do something different is selling dragon fruit at Tk 350-400 a kg and targets Tk 22 lakh in sales this year.
Crops
Farmers Busy Planting IRRI-Boro Despite Cold and Fog
Farmers across Gaibandha's seven upazilas are planting IRRI-Boro rice in cold and fog, complaining of rising costs and poor paddy prices.
Vegetables
Growing Potatoes Without Tillage
Growing potatoes without tillage under a water hyacinth mulch cuts costs, brings fallow land into use and can yield 25-30 tonnes a hectare.
Fruits
100 Oranges for Tk 200
Moulvibazar's orange growers got a bigger crop this year but are losing fruit to insects and selling early at low prices.
Agribusiness
Date Palm Molasses Sells at Tk 90 a Kg
Molasses prices at Chuadanga's traditional Sarojganj market have risen to Tk 90 a kg as date palms are felled to fuel brick kilns.
Agribusiness
Crocodile Farming Earns Tk 15 Crore a Year
Bangladesh's first commercial crocodile farm, in Bhaluka, has grown from 74 adults to about 3,500 crocodiles and earns around Tk 15 crore a year from exports.
Agribusiness
Busy Date Palm Molasses Market, Tk 70 a Kg
The twice-weekly date palm molasses market beside Jayrampur railway station in Chuadanga is in full swing, with wholesale molasses at Tk 60-70 a kg.