CropsOn 30 November 2024 the BNP launched a programme at Chandpai in Mongla, Bagerhat, to cut poor farmers' ripe paddy and carry it home without pay. The organisers said farmers struggle to pay harvest labour.
CropsIn November 2024 farmers in several villages of Ujangram union, Kushtia Sadar, were growing about 15 kinds of vegetables on some 100 acres without chemical pesticides, using integrated pest management. They said bio-pesticides and sex pheromone traps had cut their costs.
At Kauar Char near Kuakata sea beach, cheap breakfasts of fresh hilsa and khichuri served at sunrise have become a favourite with tourists.
Gachhis in Faridpur are busy making date palm molasses, famed across the country and now selling at Tk 600 a kg.
Low temperatures, dense fog, drizzle and cloudy weather harm Boro seedbeds and many winter crops, and farmers have been advised to take a set of protective steps.
The Coast Guard seized 1,600 kg (40 maunds) of jatka from a mini pickup van near Palbazar in Chandpur town on 28 November.
A group of young men in Narayanganj are tapping 46 date palms in Bandar this winter under the banner Ras Bagicha, hoping to revive the tradition of date palm sap.
A Jamalpur farmer has planted 17,000 cauliflowers with bottle gourd trellised above them on three bighas, expecting to sell Tk 3-4 lakh worth of vegetables.
Bacterial wilt affects many vegetable crops, making the whole plant droop and die within a day or two; here is how to manage it.
A bumper cucumber crop on hill and flat land in Sitakunda, Chattogram, combined with high vegetable prices, is bringing a good income to at least 720 farmers.
Hilsa supply at the Chandpur fish landing centre has dropped for a week, pushing prices up by Tk 500 to Tk 800 a kg.
CropsMd Shahjahan, 62, who has farmed leased land in Siddhirganj, Narayanganj, for 40 years, grew five kinds of leafy greens on 190 decimals in Mizmizi beel in November 2024. He said the income was paying for his children's higher education and that he was preparing to send his elder son abroad to study.
Fisheries and livestock adviser Farida Akhter has directed that a committee be formed quickly to fix the period of the fishing ban in the Bay of Bengal.
