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Sugarcane Farming Grows in Tangail as Good Prices Reward Farmers
Sugarcane farming in Tangail has spread well past its target this year as farmers enjoy good yields and prices, with 786 hectares planted.
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Nilphamari Farmers Look to Wheat to Recover Paddy Losses
Wheat has been sown on a record area in Nilphamari this rabi season, and farmers hope good yields and prices will offset their losses from paddy.
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Farming Changes the Fortunes of 30,000 Farmers
After villagers and the Kalapara UNO freed the Jugir canal from grabbers and built dams against salt water, about 500 acres of fallow land in Nilganj union are now farmed.
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Pulao Leaf Plant Adds Flavour to Food
The pulao leaf plant's fragrant leaves enhance and perfume food, and it needs little care to grow.
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How to Keep Insects Out of Stored Rice
Households that buy rice by the maund often find insects in it; a few simple storage tricks can prevent or get rid of them.
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Bumper Yield of Binakhesari-1 Grass Pea in Gopalganj
BINA's grass pea variety Binakhesari-1, safe for human consumption, has given a bumper yield of 1,600 kg a hectare in Gopalganj.
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Boro Cultivation in Jashore Falls Short of Target
After losing about Tk 5,000 a bigha on rice in the last aman and boro seasons, many Chaugachha farmers have turned to maize, wheat, lentils and onions.
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Mustard Farming Turns Fortunes for Jashore Farmers
Mustard cultivation in Jashore has risen to 13,200 hectares this season, some 5,000 hectares more than last year, as farmers find it more profitable than rice.
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Maize brings smiles to farmers in Kaliganj
Maize cultivation has grown in Kaliganj upazila of Jhenaidah after farmers were given incentives, with the area this year well above target.
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Land ploughed with a horse in Sunamganj
With boro cultivation in full swing in the haors of Jagannathpur, Sunamganj, a farmer has caused a stir by ploughing his land with a horse.
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Boro rice now grows in the bed of the Narsunda river
With the Narsunda river dried up to a thin stream in Nandail, Mymensingh, farmers have planted boro rice on both sides of it.
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Khulna farmers turn to watermelon after aman losses
Farmers in Khulna are turning to watermelon in greater numbers this year to make up for losses on their aman rice crop.
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Three Tangail Farmers Change Their Lives Growing Rice
Three farmers in Delduar, Tangail, who inherited small plots, have bought more land, built homes and educated their children by selling hundreds of maunds of rice.