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Silk Seed Farm Loses Its Golden Past and Becomes a 'Haunted' Place
Once busy with silkworm rearing and yarn, the Ishwardi silk seed farm now lies overgrown, with one manager for 17 posts and workers idle most of the month.
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Farming in the Month of Kartik
A month-by-month farm guide for Kartik covering wheat, sugarcane, maize, mustard, potatoes, sweet potatoes, pulses and winter vegetables.
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Khadija Begum Makes Jaggery From Grass and Becomes Self-Reliant
In Alfadanga, Faridpur, Khadija Begum makes jaggery from the juice of red Napier grass grown on 10 decimals, earning a steady income for her family.
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Panicles on Seedlings: Over a Hundred Farmers Lose Their Paddy
More than a hundred farmers in Patharghata say substandard paddy seed flowered in the seedbed, cutting yields on about 90 acres, and the compensation they got is far below their losses.
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"We Feed 170 Million People and Shelter 1.3 Million Rohingya"
Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus told the World Food Forum in Rome that Bangladesh, half the size of Italy, feeds 173 million people and shelters 1.3 million Rohingya refugees.
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Falling Groundwater Hampers Crop Production in Barind Region
The drop in the groundwater table is hampering crop production and spoiling water quality in the Barind region, leaving farmers in difficulty.
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Flowers You Can Find Close at Hand
Flowers of many colours bloom from village yards to busy city roads, and many of them can be grown in a yard, open space or on a rooftop.
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How to Grow Cotton in Bangladesh
Cotton is one of Bangladesh's cash crops, and this guide sets out the soil, sowing time, seed rates and spacing needed to grow it.
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Char Farmers Save Vegetables From Floods With Novel Sack Farming
To recover flood losses, farmers on the chars of Gaibandha are growing vegetables and spices in soil-filled sacks on raised platforms, an approach promoted by the DAE and SKS Foundation.
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Have You Heard of This Tomato Disease? What to Do
Blossom end rot is a common problem for summer and early winter tomato growers, and fungicide sprays will not cure it.
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Root Technology Grows Ten Times More Vegetables on a Jashore Rooftop
Agriculturist Ibad Ali of Jashore has developed "root technology", which uses shallow beds matched to root needs to grow up to ten times more vegetables on a rooftop.
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Asaduzzaman Earns Tk 40,000 a Month Killing Rats With Bamboo Traps
Asaduzzaman of Chirirbandar in Dinajpur earns Tk 35,000 to 40,000 a month killing rats in farmers' paddy fields with bamboo tube traps.
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Rezaul's Dairy Farm Biogas Runs His Household Cooking in Jhalakathi
A Jhalakathi dairy farmer with 22 cows has built a biogas plant on their dung that meets all of his family's cooking needs.