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What to Eat to Avoid Illness in Winter
As the weather cools and colds and fevers spread, four foods can help the body build resistance to winter illness.
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Vegetables
Eat Bean and Potato Niramish With Hot Rice
Hyacinth beans are plentiful in the markets, and a simple vegetarian curry with potato, brinjal and lentil dumplings makes a tasty dish with hot rice.
Vegetables
Permission Given to Import 19,400 Tonnes of Potatoes
With potato prices climbing in local markets, the government has allowed imports, approving 19,400 tonnes on the first day.
Fruits
Raw or Ripe: Which Banana Is More Nutritious?
Ripe and raw bananas each have their own nutritional benefits, and eating both can help keep chronic illness at bay.
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Six Brothers in Narail Succeed With Dragon Fruit After Pulling Down Brick Kiln
A college teacher and his brothers pulled down their brick kiln on the Nabaganga river in Kalia, Narail, and built a 23-acre dragon fruit garden that has already earned Tk 16 lakh this year.
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Fake Cultar Costs Mango Farmers Dear
Mango growers in Chapainawabganj say fake and low-quality paclobutrazol has flooded the market and is giving them no results.
Fruits
Apples Fetch Tk 20 a Kg at Chattogram Customs Auction
Apples that sell for Tk 200 or more a kg in the market fetched just Tk 19.80 a kg at a Chattogram Customs auction, against a reserve price of Tk 166.
Fruits
What Happens When You Eat Amra?
A nutritionist lists ten health benefits of amra, the vitamin C-rich hog plum now widely available in markets.
Fruits
Crowds Turn to Half-Rotten Fruit Markets
Priced out of fruit shops, shoppers in Dhaka are crowding roadside stalls near Sadarghat that sell sorted and half-rotten fruit at far lower prices.
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Returnee Mostafa Dreams of Success in Banana Farming
Nurul Mostafa, who came home to Mirsarai ill after years abroad, started a banana garden with 50 seedlings and now pays for his sons' college from it.
Fruits
Wild Elephant Found Dead in Kaptai Forest
The carcass of an aged wild elephant was found in Kaptai upazila, Rangamati, and forest officials believe it may have died of a stroke.
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Barguna Teacher Ujjal Succeeds in Dragon Fruit Farming
A schoolteacher in Barguna who spent Tk 20 lakh planting dragon fruit on two acres has sold Tk 7.5 lakh worth of fruit so far.
Fruits
Housewife Dies of Snakebite in Jhalakathi
A 45-year-old housewife in Kathalia, Jhalakathi, died after a snake from a hole under her bed bit her foot early on 9 October.