GalleryEarly cauliflower floods Bogura's Mahasthan market and prices halve
Early cauliflower is pouring into the Mahasthan wholesale market in Bogura; with supply rising, the price fell by about half in a single day, leaving growers disappointed.
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GalleryIbises, lapwings and openbills gather at Bogura's Bhepra beel among aman fields
As the water drops in the roughly 50-bigha Bhepra beel, ringed by aman rice fields, glossy ibises, lapwings, Asian openbills, egrets and cormorants have arrived; photographs by Prothom Alo's Soyel Rana.
AgrotechSolar irrigation pumps save char farmers in Sariakandi about Tk 9,000 a bigha
Solar-powered irrigation pumps on the chars of Sariakandi in Bogura have cut farmers' diesel and electricity costs; a preliminary assessment under the SACP-RAINS project puts the saving at about Tk 9,000 a bigha.
VegetablesPrice news by phone gives Mahasthan vegetable growers a stronger hand
Farmers and traders at Bogura's Mahasthan vegetable market say checking city prices by mobile phone before harvest has strengthened growers' bargaining and narrowed the gap between farm-gate and wholesale prices.
CropsBogura region's rabi plan: soil testing, checks on fake fertiliser and better spice varieties
A meeting of the Department of Agricultural Extension's regional technology extension committee in Bogura set targets and seed needs for the 2026-27 rabi season and agreed on soil-test-based fertiliser advice and an organic fertiliser laboratory.
CropsAman rice on 19,540 hectares in Nandigram raises hopes of a good harvest
Nandigram in Bogura has planted aman rice on 19,540 hectares this Kharif-2 season, almost exactly its target; the plants are at the booting stage and harvesting starts in mid-Kartik.
GalleryDawn to 9am: a banana market on the banks of the Karatoya in Bogura
Between the Chelopara rail bridge and the Shah Fateh Ali bridge on the Karatoya, a small playing field turns into a banana market every morning, with Anupam, Champa, Sagar and Shabri bananas brought in from the villages and sold by 9am.
VegetablesChilli seedlings turn Sonatala's Jamuna chars green
After a good crop and price last season, farmers in Sonatala, Bogura, are again planting chilli on 910 hectares; hybrids yield 80-85 maunds a bigha, the hotter local Bogura chilli 40-45.
OpinionWhere will native fish go if their river refuges vanish? A case for Goshainer Doho
Writing in Prothom Alo, Dr Md Shariful Islam of the SAARC Agriculture Centre says protecting what is left of the Karatoya pool at Sherpur and restoring its river links must come first, with surveys before any fingerlings are released.
Vegetables
Bogura's eight solar mini cold stores sit mostly locked eight months on
Container cold stores costing about Tk 15 lakh each, paid for by the Climate Change Trust Fund, hold no vegetables; operators say they were never trained to run them.
GalleryIn pictures: Chalan Beel's fresh koi, shing, boal and puti at a Bogura morning market
Buyers crowd the early market at Pollimongol on the edge of Bogura town for native fish the sellers say come from Chalan Beel; a photo story by Prothom Alo's Soyel Rana.
GalleryWood apples by the sackload: a busy dawn market by a Bogura rail crossing
Wood apples brought from Naogaon, Natore and Satkhira sell wholesale for Tk 5 to Tk 25 apiece at Bogura's Rail Crossing No 3 market, in a photo story by Prothom Alo's Soel Rana.
HealthHeart disease hides in plain sight, Bogura doctor warns, urging regular check-ups
About 283,800 people die of heart disease and related causes in Bangladesh every year, says Dr Md Matiur Rahman, head of TMSS's health sector, and regular checks of blood pressure, sugar, weight and cholesterol are the key to prevention.
LivestockBogura duck farmer with 3,000 birds sells 1,500 eggs a day, earns Tk 300,000 a month
Fazlur Rahman of Darugram, Kusumbi, keeps ducks on one side of a 24-decimal pond and fish on the other, and grazes the flock on harvested rice fields to save on feed.
GalleryIn pictures: Bogura's bananas, from Shibganj orchards to markets nationwide
Villages across Shibganj and Mokamtala in Bogura are full of banana orchards; photographer Soel Rana follows the ripe bunches from the trees to vans, wholesale depots and trucks bound for markets around the country, in a Prothom Alo photo story.
Agribusiness
Tk 30 in the field, Tk 60 in town: Bogura vegetable markup is not about diesel
Bogura farmers sell pointed gourd and cucumber at Tk 30 a kilo while the same vegetables fetch Tk 50-60 ten kilometres away, and the diesel-driven rise in freight adds well under a taka a kilo.
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Colourful dragonflies fill a village path in Bogura
In Nuruil village in Bogura Sadar, hundreds of red, blue and yellow dragonflies have spread their wings on dried chilli plants and vegetable shoots.
Agrotech
Young Bogura agronomists grow soilless seedlings and vegetables under polyshade and drip
At Mokamtala in Bogura's Shibganj, young agriculture graduates raise disease-free seedlings in soilless cocopeat trays and grow chemical-free vegetables under polyshade with mulch film, fogging and drip irrigation, and offer hydroponics services.
Agribusiness
Bangladesh's first community-owned agro-tourism project unveils its design in Kahalu
At the Asian Tourism Fair, Sukher Khamar Agro Limited showed plans for a 100-room resort beside a 400-cattle farm, fish ponds and a 1 MW solar plant in Kahalu, Bogura, with more than a thousand partners from 21 countries.
Environment
Bogura recovers railway pond worth Tk 63.5 crore from a forged land-class change
Bogura City Corporation has evicted illegal structures from a 1.28-acre natural water body owned by the railway beside Station Road, after an attempt to reclassify and fill it using forged papers; the pond is to be re-excavated and turned into a lake.
Environment
103 wild parakeets found crammed into a Dhaka-bound bus in Bogura and set free
Detective police found the birds in ten plastic cages in the side box of a bus from Naogaon; the forest department says the hill parakeets come down to maize and chilli fields, where a ring traps them for sale.