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A joint raid by the consumer rights directorate and BADC found substandard fertiliser being blended at two Sadarghat warehouses; about 40,000 sacks have gone out, some possibly to government stores in BADC sacks.
The state paid Tk 36 a kg for 675 tonnes of boro, Tk 11 above the market; of more than 20 farmers Manab Zamin spoke to, over 15 got only Tk 1,000 for lending their cards, the paper found.
EnvironmentTigers, bears, deer and fishing cats once roamed the Garo Hills of Nalitabari, Jhenaigati and Sreebardi; with the forest shrinking they are no longer seen, and wild elephants now come down to farmland in search of food.
Farmers in Sarail, Brahmanbaria, say fertiliser is being held in stores to fake a shortage during the Aman season and sold for Tk 400-1,000 a bag above the official price; only 5-7 of the 32 dealers on a 2009 list are active.
Farmers in Shayestaganj, Habiganj, say they are paying more than the fixed price for urea, TSP, DAP and MoP as some dealers create an artificial shortage; they want regular market monitoring.
With no bridge over the canal beside Baro Butuni bazar in Manikganj's Shibalay upazila, farmers take crops and raw materials to market by a 7-8 km detour that worsens in the monsoon and raises costs; after applications in 2022-23 and November 2025, the upazila engineer says a 10-metre bridge has bee
More than fifty farmers and residents of Dakshin Kuttapara in Brahmanbaria's Sarail upazila rallied on Monday for an underpass on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway before its four-lane widening is finished, saying they cross the busy road daily with ploughs, tractors, cattle and harvested crops.
Titas resumed gas supply on Saturday night to one of the country's largest urea plants at Tarakandi in Jamalpur, shut since 15 February; acting manager Delwar Hossain says it will take at least 15 days to bring the plant back into production.
At the district development coordination meeting, Deputy Commissioner Sohana Nasrin asked department heads to develop the GI-recognised Ratabhog rice and cheese, expand privately run duck farms in the haor by closing gaps such as vaccines, and build an entrepreneur database for agriculture, fisherie
Farmers and fish farmers in Natore's Lalpur upazila say fertiliser allocated to BCIC and BADC dealers is passing through illegal hoarders and coming back through sub-dealers and unlicensed retailers at Tk 400-500 a bag above the government price, without vouchers; the upazila agriculture officer say
With no government procurement in the Aus season, farmers in Habiganj's Shayestaganj are selling to seasonal middlemen below cost and want market monitoring and public purchase of Aus paddy.
After early-August downpours, Aman transplanting is complete in Netrokona's Purbadhala; panicles are emerging, pest pressure is low and fertiliser stocks are adequate, with a production target of 64,657 tonnes.
Dead fish have been floating in several enclosures at Shahadatnagar in Chattogram's Anwara since Friday afternoon; farmers say chemical-laden waste water from the Karnaphuli urea plant entered through canals, the company could not be reached and no written complaint has yet been filed.
