Mirsarai Farmers Busy With Mustard Harvest as Area Grows by 625 Hectares
Mustard farming in Mirsarai, Chattogram, has grown from 40 hectares to 665 hectares in five years, and farmers are now harvesting a bumper crop.
Mustard farming in Mirsarai, Chattogram, has grown from 40 hectares to 665 hectares in five years, and farmers are now harvesting a bumper crop.
Rows of beehives beside the litchi orchards of Mongolbaria in Kishoreganj are yielding honey while the bees help raise the litchi crop.
Low costs and quick returns are drawing farmers in Sharsha and Benapole, Jashore, to grow sunflowers on land that once lay fallow.
The white bhant, a familiar wild shrub of rural Bengal, is blooming along Narail's roads and paths, though locals say it is seen far less than before.
Sonar Dana, an organic fertiliser made by Keru & Company at Darshana, has become popular with farmers who say it has raised their yields.
A private-sector employee in Boalmari has built a rooftop garden of several thousand plants, led by the adenium or 'desert rose', that now earns him a steady monthly income.
The Speaker and Deputy Speaker each planted a mango sapling in the rose garden of the Parliament House complex on Saturday.
Sunflowers are in full bloom on 178 hectares across Tangail, and the agriculture office says farmers will profit if the weather stays favourable.
Sunflower cultivation is growing in Moulvibazar, with 147 hectares planted this season and many fields already in flower.
Four beekeepers in Dinajpur collected 150 kg of honey from drumstick flowers in their first harvest, worth an estimated Tk 1.5 lakh.
FlowersThe 2024 Census of Horticultural Specialties puts American floriculture, nursery and specialty crop sales at $18.3 billion across 23,060 operations, with nursery stock the largest line.
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman came to work at the Prime Minister's Office in Tejgaon for the first time and planted a swarnachampa sapling there.
A guide to choosing flowers for pots season by season, preparing the soil, and caring for and feeding the plants.