Chhatra League Calls on Activists to Cut Farmers' Paddy and Take It Home
Bangladesh Chhatra League has called on young people, students and youth to cut farmers' Boro paddy this season and carry it safely home.
Bangladesh Chhatra League has called on young people, students and youth to cut farmers' Boro paddy this season and carry it safely home.
As a heatwave pushes temperatures to 42°C, an agriculturist warns of heavy crop losses and sets out steps to protect paddy, fruit, vegetables, livestock and fish.
Hail with gusty wind in Lalmonirhat flattened half-ripe Aus paddy and pierced tin-roofed homes, leaving farmers and families distressed on the eve of Eid.
A two-week heatwave with no rain has dried the soil in Naogaon and set young mangoes dropping from the trees, worrying growers who cannot irrigate.
Watermelon prices in Mymensingh jumped at the end of Ramadan, with a four to five kg fruit selling for Tk 500.
Scientists warn that the heatwave puts flowering boro paddy at risk of heat shock, which burns rice flowers and leaves empty grains.
Three ministers joined a boro paddy harvest festival at Dekhar Haor in Sunamganj and cut paddy together.
More than 50 indigenous farmers in Rajshahi's Deopara union say a pump operator withholds irrigation water from them unless they pay extra.
Farmers in Sunamganj's haors spent the first day of Baishakh bringing home a bumper boro crop.
The way for Bangladesh's mango exports to the world market will soon be cleared, Agriculture Minister Dr Md Abdur Razzaque said.
The government will buy 16.5 lakh tonnes of paddy and rice from the domestic market in the coming boro season.
Neck blast is drying out the panicles of paddy in fields across Kaliganj upazila of Jhenaidah, hitting BRRI dhan63 hardest.
Rice can no longer be sold under the name Miniket, Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder said, as a draft law has won final cabinet approval.