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An Easy Way to Grow Winter Bottle Gourd
Bottle gourd, a popular winter vegetable now grown all year, can be raised easily from polybag seedlings in pits around the homestead or in the field.
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Birds Decline in Kalapara-Kuakata as Habitat and Food Shrink
Coastal forests of Kalapara-Kuakata in Patuakhali, which once held 50-60 bird species, now show only 10-15, as habitat and food disappear.
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Easy Ways to Grow Peas
Peas, a popular winter vegetable and pulse, grow best in well-drained loam sown in November, with careful land preparation, fertiliser and irrigation.
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Potato Storage House Project Proposed Without Study Questioned
The Planning Commission has questioned a Department of Agricultural Marketing project to build 450 model potato storage houses, saying it was proposed without any research or feasibility study.
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Cyclone Disrupts Potato Planting, Output May Fall
Cyclone Jawad struck at potato planting time, damaging fields in Munshiganj and elsewhere and raising fears that this season's output will fall.
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"BINA's Sunflower Varieties Will Revolutionise Oil Crops Once Released"
The Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture expects to release three advanced sunflower lines within three years, which scientists say could spread sunflower on fallow land.
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Teesta Farmers Try to Get Back on Their Feet
Farmers along the Teesta in Lalmonirhat, hit by a sudden flood in October, are clearing sand and sowing new crops on the dried river's chars.
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Broken Road a Thorn in the Side of Mymensingh Vegetable Farmers
Farmers in Mymensingh Sadar's vegetable-growing chars say the narrow, broken Shambhuganj-Paranganj road is costing them their profits.
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Bumper Bean Yield in Meherpur
With no natural disaster this season, bean farmers in Meherpur are profiting from a good harvest grown on 550 hectares.
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Green Chillies From Boror Char Head for the Middle East and Europe
Farmers at Boror Char in Mymensingh have formed three export teams as green chillies from the vegetable hub head for foreign markets.
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Shahnaz Finds Success Raising Chickens in Her Spare Time
A housewife in Sreepur, Gazipur, has built a thriving Kadaknath chicken farm and hatchery from 200 chicks.
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Lafa Brinjal on the Verge of Extinction as Farmers Turn to High-Yield Varieties
The famous round Lafa brinjal of Gafargaon in Mymensingh is disappearing as farmers switch to higher-yielding varieties.
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Year-Round Tomato Brings Ten Times the Profit in Mymensingh
A farmer back from Singapore is growing grafted, year-round BARI Hybrid Tomato-8 at Borer Char, Mymensingh, and says it earns eight to ten times more than winter tomato.