Mirsarai Farmers Strike It Rich With Sweet Potatoes
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.
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.
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.
Intense drought and heat in Ishwardi, Pabna are making litchi fruitlets drop, and growers fear a crop failure after a record blossom.
Farmers in Mirsharai upazila of Chattogram expect a bumper sunflower harvest, and the agriculture office says low costs will draw more growers to the crop.
The Planning Commission has questioned a Tk 463 crore BADC irrigation project whose canal would be built on roads department land that could be reclaimed on three months' notice.
Litchi growers in Dinajpur are busy tending trees covered in blossom, hoping for a bumper crop after heat damaged last year's harvest.
BRRI has issued an advance heatwave warning for rice, advising farmers to keep water standing in fields and spray against blast and leaf diseases.