FlowersA guide to the winter chrysanthemum in Bangladesh: BARI's two varieties, raising plants from cuttings and suckers, per-hectare fertiliser doses and official advice on thrips and aphids.
A practical guide to growing chrysanthemums, from propagation and potting mix to disbudding, aphid control and harvesting.
Petunias brighten a winter garden, but they flower well only with the right light, water, soil, feeding and pruning.
Continuous rain has waterlogged hundreds of hectares of early-variety bean fields in Muladuli union of Ishwardi, Pabna, threatening heavy losses.
A short guide to the flowers of Sharat, the Bengali autumn, from white kash on riverbanks to night-blooming shiuli.
The rainy season brings the most flowers in Bangladesh, from kadam and water lilies to dopati, lilies and a wealth of white blooms.
Kathgolap blooms all year round and can be grown in a pot from a nursery plant, seed or stem cutting with the right soil and care.
Cutting jute at the flower-bud stage, retting it in clean water and drying the fibre off the ground all help farmers get better-quality fibre.
The housing and public works minister has directed that a condition to plant trees on vacant space be added to building plan approvals, as his ministry set a target of five lakh trees.
The fragrant white chalta flower blooms in the monsoon and becomes a fruit rich in vitamin C, but the tree is now a rare sight.
Mango prices at the Beltala market in Sharsha, Jashore, have shot up since Cyclone Remal, with Himsagar jumping from Tk 1,800 to Tk 4,500 a maund.
Alongside Dinajpur's familiar litchi varieties, a Sadar upazila orchard is now growing Golapi and Elachi litchis, large, juicy fruit said not to be grown anywhere else in the country.
Farmers in Patuakhali have grown sunflowers together under an integrated plan and are earning more than in previous years.
