Put Green Mango Mustard Hilsa on Your Plate for the New Year
Aam sorshe ilish, hilsa cooked with green mango and mustard, is a tasty dish that goes well with panta, plain rice or pulao on Pahela Baishakh.
Aam sorshe ilish, hilsa cooked with green mango and mustard, is a tasty dish that goes well with panta, plain rice or pulao on Pahela Baishakh.
Farmers in Mirsarai upazila of Chattogram are profiting from sweet potatoes, grown mostly on sandy chars, with little investment and advice from the upazila agriculture office.
Low blossom and recent Chaitra rain mean Chapainawabganj's mango output could fall by half compared with last year, growers and others involved say.
Temperatures outside 18-34°C at the booting and flowering stages can leave rice grains empty, and climate change is bringing farmers new problems.
Rainwater has submerged farmers' ripening boro paddy in various haors of Sunamganj, with nearly Tk 1 crore worth lost, according to the agriculture department.
A day labourer in Shibganj, Chapainawabganj, has spent 12 years using his own wages to repair dirt roads near the border and plant trees along them.
Nearly two years after he sought to withdraw a tree-planting award application, the public administration ministry has reprimanded former Hathazari UNO Mohammad Ruhul Amin.
Potato farming without tillage is spreading in Patuakhali, where seed tubers are laid on soft soil after Aman and covered with straw, cutting costs and beating salinity.
Border Guard Bangladesh members recovered snake venom worth nearly Tk 1 crore being smuggled to India through the Birampur border in Dinajpur, but no one was arrested.
Watermelons have been grown on about 120 bighas of Bishkhali river char land in Rajapur, Jhalakathi, and farmers have begun selling them at good prices.
Chui jhal, a medicinal tropical vine that grows well across South Asia, is planted from stem cuttings against host trees such as mango and jackfruit.
With a heatwave in Rajshahi and power cuts rising, farmers cannot irrigate their boro fields properly, and the land has cracked in many places.
Fruit rot, or fruitlet drop, often hits jackfruit production at an early stage, and a few steps can protect the crop.