OthersIn March the winter harvest ends and the summer crops begin. Following the Department of Agricultural Extension's monthly advice: water and brown planthopper in boro, the wheat harvest, sowing jute and mung, summer vegetables, mango blossom, pond preparation and livestock in the heat.
OthersAs winter gives way to summer, February brings harvesting, sowing and crop care all at once. Following the Agricultural Information Service's monthly advice, here is the month's work for boro, wheat, maize, jute, pulses, mustard, vegetables, mango and litchi, fish ponds and livestock.
OthersFarming's share of GDP keeps shrinking, yet close to half of Bangladesh's working people still earn their living in fields, farms and fisheries. The sector feeds the country, supplies jute, tea and leather exports and raw materials for industry, and has driven down rural poverty. Its challenges, and what a sustainable future needs.
OthersAvailability, access, utilisation and stability: Bangladesh measured against the four pillars of food security. A country self-sufficient in rice yet short of nutrition, facing climate change, shrinking farmland and weak distribution, and the steps that would put enough nutritious food on every plate.
OthersJanuary is the busiest month of the rabi season. Amid fog and cold waves, farmers tend boro seedbeds and transplant, irrigate wheat, fight late blight in potatoes, harvest mustard and pulses, and look after winter vegetables, ponds and livestock. The month’s work, crop by crop, following the government’s monthly extension advice.
OthersFood security, national income, jobs, poverty, industrial raw materials, exports and culture: eight ways farming holds Bangladesh up. Alongside them, the many kinds of farming practised in the country, the path to modern agriculture and the challenges facing the people who work the land.
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