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Plant Trees to Beat the Heat, Prime Minister Urges
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged everyone to plant trees for shade and fruit, and said 8 crore 38 lakh saplings will be planted this year.
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'Litchi Daughters' Paid Less Because They Cannot Climb Trees
Ishwardi's 25,000-30,000 women litchi workers, known locally as 'litchi daughters', got a pay rise this year but say they still earn less than men for equal work.
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Three-Day National Fruit Fair Begins Thursday at KIB, Dhaka
The Ministry of Agriculture's three-day National Fruit Fair opens on Thursday, 6 June, at the KIB grounds in Khamarbari, Dhaka, and ends on Saturday, 8 June.
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Remal-Hit Litchis Being Sold by the Kilogram in Ishwardi
Cyclone Remal struck just before Ishwardi's Bombai litchi harvest, splitting and dropping so much fruit that growers are selling it by the kilogram for Tk 20-35.
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Chapainawabganj Mangoes Due Next Week, Kansat Arots Get Ready
Chapainawabganj's mangoes are expected in the market after the first week of June, and traders at Kansat are building and repairing their wholesale arots.
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Mango Trader Dies After Being Drugged on Bus Home
Md Asif Talukder, a 30-year-old mango trader, died after members of an 'ojnan party' gang drugged him on a bus from Satkhira to Dhaka.
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Formalin Does Not Work on Fruit, Eat More Fruit, Seminar Told
Speakers at a Bangladesh Food Safety Authority seminar said formalin, being highly volatile, has no role in preserving or ripening fruit.
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135 Mango Varieties on Show at Agricultural Technology Fair in Rajshahi
A three-day agricultural technology fair on the Bagha upazila premises in Rajshahi is showing 135 varieties of mango.
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The Most Popular Potato Varieties for Cultivation
The potato, a starchy tuber first grown in the Andes, now has about 4,000 varieties, and a handful of popular types are easy to find worldwide.
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Cyclone Remal Leaves Kalapara Mango Growers in Despair
Cyclone Remal has broken branches and brought down large quantities of mango in Kalapara, Patuakhali, where local growers had begun meeting local demand.
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Mango Prices Double, but Rajshahi Market Yet to Pick Up
Baneshwar in Rajshahi, the biggest mango market in the north, has yet to get busy because of a shortage of mangoes, even as prices have nearly doubled.
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Mangoes Sell for Tk 7 a Kg in Rajshahi
Mangoes knocked down in the storm caused by Cyclone Remal are selling at Tk 7 a kg in Rajshahi.
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Litchis Cracking on the Trees, Dashing Growers' Hopes
Sudden rain after a prolonged heatwave is ruining litchis on the trees in Rajshahi, turning them dark and splitting them open.