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VegetablesIn the waterlogged wetlands of Nazirpur and Nesarabad in Pirojpur, a 200-year-old floating bed method produces about ten million vegetable seedlings a season, sold for about Tk 10 crore; some 6,000 farmers are involved.
CropsAlmost all of the 17 polynet houses built in Pabna under the Rajshahi division agricultural development project, at Tk 24 lakh each, have stopped working within four years; farmers blame excess heat, broken irrigation and poor materials.
CropsWorking by cross-breeding on his own plots for 21 years, Nalitabari farmer Sentu Chandra Hajong has developed 25 new rice varieties and keeps disappearing local ones alive; the district agriculture office says it will put his name forward for national recognition.
VegetablesBrinjal leaves are turning yellow and fruit is curling in Kurigram's char lands and elsewhere; the upazila agriculture officer advises cutting away infected branches and uprooting badly hit plants when yellow mosaic symptoms appear.
EnvironmentStructures on both banks and refuse from markets and drains have silted up the Nabaganga where it runs past Magura town; fishers say there is nothing left to catch, and the water board says dredging of 44 km of the river will start soon.
AgrotechBiochar made by heating straw, wood and crop residue without oxygen raised maize yields by up to 29 per cent and aus rice by 23 per cent alongside balanced fertiliser, and could cut urea use by a quarter, scientists told a BARC workshop.
Mehedi Hasan of Bauphal, Patuakhali, began a nursery on 33 decimals and now grows saplings of about 3,500 species on 125 decimals, selling around 300,000 medicinal plants a month.
FruitsA first consignment of 1.83 tonnes of Calendar-variety pineapples from Madhupur, Tangail, flew to Karachi, and importers in Pakistan have ordered about 42 tonnes more.
CropsSirajganj aimed to grow cane on about 10,000 hectares across nine upazilas; after a good harvest crushing has begun and pure jaggery is selling at Tk 200 to 250 a kilo.
VegetablesAbout 4,000 year-round moringa trees planted along roadsides in Birampur, Dinajpur, in January have begun to bear, and drumsticks are selling at Tk 200 to 260 a kilo.
FisheriesWith too few hilsa in the Bay, fishers, trawler owners and traders in Sarankhola and along the Bagerhat coast owe lakhs of taka, and the 22-day fishing ban has added to the strain.
At a three-day workshop of the SAARC Agriculture Centre and SHISHUK at BARD in Cumilla, about 50 delegates from eight countries called for sharing technology and experience as floods, drought and salinity threaten fisheries.
FisheriesHit again and again by virus, salinity shortages, drought and heavy rain in shrimp, farmers in Paikgachha and Dumuria, Khulna, are raising native shol (snakehead) in small ponds; Baduria village alone has more than 300 snakehead ponds.
