Beans Sell at Tk 200 a Kg
Early bean farmers in Naogaon are getting Tk 150-170 a kg wholesale and Tk 200 retail, but pests and rot are a worry.
Early bean farmers in Naogaon are getting Tk 150-170 a kg wholesale and Tk 200 retail, but pests and rot are a worry.
A Tk 47.39 crore SRDI project to improve hill soil management has drawn questions over Tk 60 lakh for foreign training and Tk 90 lakh for a jeep.
Proper weeding, fertiliser top dressing and disease control can raise the yield of bean plants.
Quail farming is growing in popularity, and rearing the birds in cages rather than on litter cuts disease and losses.
Sonali chickens are in demand for their meat and eggs, and a few management steps can raise how many eggs a flock lays.
Farmers in Pabna say the price paddy is fetching leaves them no profit after costs, and many are turning away from rice, raising fears of lower output.
Farmers in Pabna's Ishwardi upazila could not plant aman on 270 hectares this season because of a lack of rain, with fuel and fertiliser costs deepening their troubles.
Farmers in Kurigram are turning to commercial cultivation of elephant foot yam, drawn by low costs and high profits.
The egg producers' body Bangladesh Poultry Association has demanded a 'poultry board' to root out syndicates in the poultry sector.
A teacher in Bauphal, Patuakhali, has built a collection of nearly 200 native and foreign species of timber, fruit and medicinal trees at his home and gives fruit and saplings away free.
With aus output around 5 lakh tonnes below target, analysts fear aman production could fall by 15-20 lakh tonnes this season, though officials say the target will be surpassed.
A law is being made to require the paddy variety to be printed on rice sacks and to set how much rice may be polished, Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder has said.
Carrots are a popular, vitamin-rich vegetable in high demand, and following the right cultivation method can make them profitable.