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How Drones Could Help Increase Crop Production
In South Africa's Western Cape, drones are monitoring a lemon orchard from the air, spotting problems such as dry patches and broken fences and feeding data to the farm.
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A Different Kind of Drive to Protect Migratory Birds
A businessman in Jhalakathi led a speedboat awareness campaign along about 20 kilometres of river to protect the migratory birds wintering on the Bishkhali's banks.
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India Has Lifted Onion Export Ban, Agriculture Minister Tells Parliament
Agriculture Minister Dr Abdur Razzaque told parliament that onion prices will fall now that India has lifted its export ban.
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A Yellow Sea to the Horizon
Tangail's fields have turned a sea of yellow as mustard is grown on more land this year, with farmers hoping for a bumper crop and beekeepers for 150 tonnes of honey.
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Is the Onion a Vegetable or a Spice? And Other Facts
With onion prices rising in Bangladesh after India's export ban, a look at what the onion is and where it comes from.
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Perching Grows Popular for Pest Control in Khulna
Perching, which gives insect-eating birds places to sit in rice fields, now covers about 60 percent of Khulna's Aman land, cutting farmers' pesticide use sharply.
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Sugarcane Pays, and Cultivation Is Growing
Sugarcane is proving more profitable than aman paddy in Fatikchhari, and the number of growers has risen from 20-30 five years ago to over 100.
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Food Minister: Government to Buy Paddy from Farmers at Tk 26 a kg
The government will buy 6 lakh tonnes of aman paddy directly from farmers at Tk 26 a kg from 20 November, the food minister announced.
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A Purple Paddy Field in Chandpur's Faridganj
A farmer in Faridganj, Chandpur, has drawn attention by growing a purple-coloured paddy whose rice is also purple.
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Rajshahi's Openbill Colony to Get a Permanent Home
The government plans to acquire land around a mango orchard in Rajshahi's Bagha upazila to give a nesting colony of Asian openbills a permanent home.
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Trials Begin to Find an Alternative to Lalswarna Rice
An agriculture farm in Kalna is testing 21 rice varieties as alternatives to Lalswarna, which farmers have grown for so long that pests and falling yields have followed.
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Who Is Responsible for the Fall in Paddy Prices?
Shykh Seraj examines why paddy prices collapsed in 2019, pointing to excessive rice imports after the 2017 floods, idle mills and too little government storage.
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The Fire in the Paddy Has Reached Our Hearts
After a farmer burned his crop over low paddy prices, Shykh Seraj gathers farmers' figures from across the country and calls for earlier government procurement and fairer markets.