Fruits
How to Make Watermelon Rind French Fries
The white inner part of watermelon rind, usually thrown away, can be turned into crisp, spicy fries.
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Fruits
Eating Watermelon in the Heat? Avoid These Mistakes
Watermelon cools and refreshes in the heat, but eating it on an empty stomach, straight after a heavy meal, ice-cold or in excess can do more harm than good.
Crops
The Role of Micronutrients in Getting Good Yields From the Soil
Plants need a balanced diet of major nutrients and micronutrients, and correcting deficiencies can raise both the quantity and quality of the harvest.
Crops
Early Flood Risk Raises Fears for Boro Crop in Netrokona Haors
Days of heavy rain, storms and hail have caused waterlogging and cracked embankments in Netrokona's haors, leaving farmers afraid an early flood will destroy their boro crop.
Crops
Solar-Powered Tube Wells Keep Narail Farmers Going Amid Diesel Crisis
Solar-powered irrigation pumps installed in two beels of Narail Sadar upazila have cut farmers' costs and freed them from worries about diesel and electricity.
Agribusiness
Single Hilsa Sells for Tk 9,000 in Barguna
A large hilsa weighing 1 kg 700 g, caught in the Bishkhali river at Patharghata in Barguna, sold for Tk 9,000 at the local market.
Crops
'World-Beating' in Garments, Bangladesh Relies on Imports for Cotton
Although cotton is the main raw material of Bangladesh's garment industry, the country imports about 97 per cent of what it needs, and domestic output has stalled at around 2 lakh bales.
Crops
Untimely Hill Runoff Washes Away Farmers' Golden Dreams in Dhunat
An untimely rise in the Jamuna caused by upstream hill runoff has flooded low-lying char land in Dhunat, Bogura, submerging rice, onion and groundnut fields.
Crops
New Government Must Continue Subsidies on Farm Machinery, Says ACI's F. H. Ansari
ACI Agribusiness president Dr. F. H. Ansari says the new government should continue farm machinery subsidies, build cold chains and focus on the agricultural value chain.
Crops
Bangladesh's Soil Is Well Suited to Castor Cultivation
The neglected bhenna (castor) plant, a symbol of poverty in Jasimuddin's poem, could become a source of income on Bangladesh's fallow land by replacing imported castor oil.
Environment
Three More Deer Rescued From Villages in Monpura
Three spotted deer that wandered into villages in Monpura, Bhola, apparently looking for food, were rescued and released into a protected forest.
Environment
Unruly Tourists Crowd Lawachhara, Leaving Forest Animals in Panic
Eid holiday crowds far beyond the capacity of Lawachhara National Park in Moulvibazar have littered the forest and frightened its wildlife, officials and environmentalists say.
Fisheries
Horses of the Sea: How Bangladesh's Hilsa Trawlers Are Built
Built for speed in local coastal dockyards, the trawlers that carry fishermen to the hilsa grounds go through a long chain of craftsmen before they reach the sea.