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Cold Hits Boro, Potato and Mustard Farmers
Prolonged cold and dense fog are reddening boro seedbeds, raising late blight risk in potatoes and cutting yields of beans and mustard across Bangladesh.
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Ponds Dug in the Dark: Rajshahi Loses 16,000 Hectares of Farmland
Uncontrolled digging of commercial fish ponds and spreading construction cost Rajshahi 16,159 hectares of cropland between 2015 and 2023.
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What Farmers Should Do About Potato Late Blight in Winter
With the DAE warning that late blight could reach epidemic levels this winter, a diploma agriculturist explains the symptoms and the recommended spraying.
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Farmer Trampled to Death by Wild Elephants in Sherpur
A 65-year-old farmer was killed by a herd of wild elephants while cutting grass in the Balijhuri range of Sreebardi upazila in Sherpur.
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BARI Mustard-20 Shows a New Way Between the Aman and Boro Seasons
BARI Mustard-20, a short-duration, high-yielding and stress-tolerant variety, is being spread in Sirajganj to use the gap between the Aman and Boro rice seasons.
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Kul Farming Grows in Sharsha, Opening New Prospects for the Farm Economy
Commercial kul farming is expanding in Sharsha, Jashore, turning Beltala Bazar into one of the south-west's key winter fruit markets.
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Gachhi Shahid Molla Hopes for Fivefold Profit From Date Palm Sap
A seasonal sap collector in Sonargaon has sold about Tk 2 lakh of date palm sap from a garden he bought for Tk 50,000 and expects Tk 1 lakh more.
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Poa Pitha Without Soaked Rice: A Recipe
Poa pitha can be made easily with dry rice flour instead of soaked rice, using a few ingredients and little time.
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Adulterated Farm Inputs: A Serious Problem for Agriculture
The spread of adulterated, fake and substandard fertiliser, pesticide and seed is a silent but serious crisis for Bangladesh's farm sector, and fixing it needs coordinated reform.
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Prolonged Fog and Cold Waves Threaten Disaster for Agriculture
A senior agriculturist warns that longer spells of dense fog and severe cold are turning a seasonal nuisance into a structural threat to Bangladesh's farming and salt production.
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Severe Cold and Fog Damage Boro Seedbeds in Gaibandha
Severe cold and dense fog are killing boro rice seedlings in Gaibandha, leaving farmers worried about transplanting on time.
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The Tebhaga Movement, the Greatest Peasant Struggle in Bengal's History
Dinajpur marks the historic Tebhaga Day on 4 January in memory of the sharecroppers' movement of 1946–47 and its first martyrs.
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Mustard Cultivation Rises in Manikganj
Farmers in Manikganj have sown mustard on more land this season than last year, with the fields of all seven upazilas now in yellow bloom.