Sirajnagar Tea Estate in Moulvibazar put Tk 12 lakh into the orchard in 2024; Thai Red, Jumbo Red and White Pink varieties fruit 25-26 days after flowering, no pesticide is used, and tea workers earn extra wages and take fruit home free, say manager Shamim Islam and upazila agriculture officer Md Ja
Four years after the first plantings in 2022, growers in Grabouw and Ceres have harvested the country's first Cosmic Crisp apples, a Washington State University cross of Enterprise and Honeycrisp that resists browning after cutting, now sold exclusively at selected Checkers stores.
With the mainstream mango crop finished in Naogaon, Sohel Rana's Barind Agro in Sapahar has 1,800 Gourmoti and 1,700 Katimon trees in fruit; after selling more than Tk 1 crore of seasonal mango he expects 400 maunds of Gourmoti at Tk 8,000 and 450 maunds of Katimon at Tk 7,000, employing ten local y
Chapainawabganj's Kansat market is selling Ashwina at Tk 80–100 a kilo, BARI-4 Tk 150–180, Gourmoti Tk 160–180, Katimon Tk 170–180 and Banana Mango Tk 180–200; a Shibganj grower who grafted Katimon onto Khirsapat trees found the old wood fruiting in August and has sold Tk 80,000 of off-season GI man
The Washington packer will pay past and future royalties, may not propagate the variety through 2029 or export its fruit through 2032; a judge had found the 'Glory' variety patented by a grower was genetically indistinguishable from the Canadian-bred Staccato tree delivered to him by mistake.
At a Dhaka greening seminar, Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs Minister Saching Prue Jerry said tree planting only pays off with the right species, and that the hills could move beyond banana and papaya into cashew, coffee, spices, latkan and Black Bengal goats.
Kamal Hossain's orchard on the Kuakata-Misripara road stops passing cars; the Kuakata tour operators' president Ruman Imtiaz Tushar sees farming and tourism meeting, and Kalapara agriculture officer Arafat Hossain says the right variety, soil and water management and organic manure make crops possib
Pacific Northwest sweet cherry growers say this year's returns cleared production costs by only a few cents a pound, not enough to repay the debt carried over from last season's oversupply and labour disruption.
Khurshed Alam, Sirajul Islam and Saidul Islam of Domabari village in Moulvibazar planted off-season watermelon under the Sylhet region agricultural development project; upazila agriculture officer Mahmudul Alam Khan says the method opens a way to higher profit from small plots.
Premier Peter Malinauskas's package puts $100 million into loans of up to $250,000 for small growers and $500,000 for larger ones, with no repayments for two years and 7.2% interest after that, plus $2 million for disposing of chemically treated vine posts and a two-year extension of the Global Wine
Cameras and algorithms continuously adjust ground speed, head speed, head pinch and belt and fan speeds towards goals the operator sets with two sliders; the system is available on 2027 Oxbo blueberry harvesters.
Antrim County farmer Greg Shooks, who has used H-2A for eight years on 1,100 acres of cherries, wine grapes, grains and hay, met eight congressional offices with Michigan Farm Bureau after a California ruling threw Adverse Effect Wage Rates back into chaos; his ask is the Supporting Agriculture's Wo
A step-by-step guide to collecting sap from palmyra palms and boiling it into good-quality palm jaggery, a source of rural jobs and income.
