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FruitsMorsalin Ahmed of Panchghoria in Badalgachhi, Naogaon, grows passion fruit (anarkali) on trellises on 14 decimals; it cost about Tk 50,000, fruited in three months and now yields 8-10 kg a day selling at Tk 400-450 a kg.
FruitsPrem Kumar of Majhiali in Bagherpara, Jashore, bought one seedless kagzi lemon sapling for Tk 200 in 2011; he now has 1,500 to 2,000 trees on eight and a half bighas and earns about Tk 100,000 a month.
AgribusinessStarting six years ago on two and a half leased acres, Samaul Islam now has 12,000 seedless lemon trees on 22 acres in Gopalganj, earning about Tk 5 million a year and employing 25 people.
FisheriesFishers in Derai, Sunamganj, say a day of netting in the haor's rivers, canals and beels now yields little native fish, and blame heavy farm chemical use, poisoning of leased beels and lost breeding grounds.
LivestockProducing an egg now costs Kurigram's 275 poultry farms Tk 8.5 to 9 while it sells for Tk 9 to 9.5; farmers want feed and medicine prices controlled and farm electricity billed at the agricultural rate.
AgribusinessLow rainfall in September and October has cut betel leaf output in Moulvibazar's Khasi punjis by about half and shrunk the leaves, while wages and input prices have risen.
FisheriesFarmers in Kishoreganj Sadar say three-crop land in the Meghna beel is being cut into a fish enclosure and the soil sold to brick kilns, and fear the embankment will waterlog five connected beels.
EnvironmentFalling freshwater flow and rising salinity are spreading top-dying disease in the sundari; a new study cited in the report says the forest's capacity to absorb carbon has fallen 15 percent.
Opening a new BADC warehouse, Agriculture Minister Mohammad Amin Ur Rashid said stocks are not enough: fertiliser must reach farmers on time and at a fair price.
CropsSome 5,000-6,000 maunds of jute reach the Ghior market in Manikganj every Wednesday; prices are good this year, but a lack of retting water and river erosion are taking a toll.
FruitsLemon is grown on 1,240 hectares in Moulvibazar; Sreemangal added 100 hectares in five years, wholesale prices are now Tk 15-35 a piece, but exports have not started.
CropsBetel growers in Durgapur, Bagmara, Mohanpur, Puthia and Tanore say pesticides are not stopping leaf rot; the agriculture office says it knows of no new disease.
VegetablesCucumber has been sown on 225 of a targeted 360 hectares in Ullapara, Sirajganj, and early produce is selling at high prices at the Charbaddhangachha and Chaksha wholesale markets.
