Vegetables
Joypurhat Potatoes Go Abroad
After a bumper harvest, potatoes from Joypurhat's Kalai upazila are being exported to Malaysia, Singapore, Japan and other countries.
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Agribusiness
Agribusiness
How to Make Pigeon Rearing Profitable
Pigeons are easy to keep, cheap to feed and fetch good prices, making them a profitable enterprise; here is how to rear them.
Fruits
Green watermelons bring smiles on a sandy char
On a seaside sand bar in Rangabali, Patuakhali, where no crop grew before, Hasi Begum's family and other farmers are now harvesting early watermelons.
Agribusiness
A cashew nut success story
After early export failures, entrepreneur Shakil Ahmed built what the report calls the country's first integrated cashew processing factory in Patenga, Chattogram.
Agribusiness
Five villages of Nalchity busy making puffed rice for Ramadan
The villages of Dapdapia union in Nalchity, Jhalakathi, known as the puffed rice villages, are working day and night to meet Ramadan demand for hand-roasted muri.
Agribusiness
SAU Researchers Develop Fish Biscuits and Chanachur
Researchers at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University have made protein-rich biscuits and chanachur from pangas and silver carp to add value to these low-priced fish.
Vegetables
Abdul Rashid Becomes a Crorepati Growing Sweet Pumpkin
A former day labourer in Netrokona's Durgapur upazila has become a crorepati by growing hybrid sweet pumpkin, onion and garlic on the Someshwari river char.
Agribusiness
Joypurhat's Poultry Industry Caught in Cycle of Boom and Bust
Unstable prices are pushing Joypurhat's 10,000 chicken farms, 40 hatcheries and 11 feed mills between profit and loss, putting over a lakh livelihoods at risk.
Agribusiness
Jhenaidah Farmer Earns Lakhs from Bay Leaf Cultivation
A Kaliganj farmer who started with 100 bay leaf saplings in 2008 now has 400 trees on four bighas and says he sells about Tk 12 lakh of leaves a year.
Agribusiness
Tk 230 Crore Flower Research Centre Planned at Jhikargachha, Jashore
The government plans a Tk 230.80 crore flower research centre on 20 hectares at Jhikargachha, Jashore, to raise flower production and cut post-harvest losses.
Agribusiness
Duck Farm on Tangail Beel Earns Over a Lakh a Month from Eggs
A returned migrant worker's mobile duck farm on a beel in Delduar, Tangail, is producing about 350 eggs a day and, he says, more than a lakh taka a month.
Fruits
Kul Sells at Tk 80 a Kg, Porsha Growers Profit
Kashmiri and Ball Sundari kul, grown commercially for the first time in Naogaon, are bringing Porsha growers good yields and wholesale prices of Tk 80 a kg and up.
Fruits
SAU Scientist Develops Method to Detect Melon Fruit Rot Bacteria
A Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University biotechnologist has developed molecular markers to detect the bacterium that rots melons and watermelons and to select tolerant lines.