Vegetables
Cocopeat Seedlings, a Soil-Free Alternative, Make a Stir in Rajbari
Green Agro Nursery in Rajbari raises 29 kinds of vegetable and fruit seedlings without soil in cocopeat trays within 15 to 30 days, and demand is outstripping supply.
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Only Two Farmers Among 80,000 Residents in Siddhirganj Ward
Only two farmers are still growing crops in Ward 2 of Narayanganj City Corporation, a densely populated area of about 80,000 people where buildings have swallowed the farmland.
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Kushtia Farmers Increasingly Turn to Pesticide-Free Vegetables
Farmers in Kushtia are turning to pesticide-free vegetables grown with integrated pest management, which they say cuts costs and raises output.
Vegetables
What Farmers Should Do in Winter Cold and Fog
Low temperatures, dense fog, drizzle and cloudy weather harm Boro seedbeds and many winter crops, and farmers have been advised to take a set of protective steps.
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Jamalpur's Anis Profits From Mixed Cauliflower and Gourd Farming
A Jamalpur farmer has planted 17,000 cauliflowers with bottle gourd trellised above them on three bighas, expecting to sell Tk 3-4 lakh worth of vegetables.
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What to Do When Vegetables Get Wilt Disease
Bacterial wilt affects many vegetable crops, making the whole plant droop and die within a day or two; here is how to manage it.
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Sitakunda Cucumber Farmers Happy With Bumper Yield and Good Prices
A bumper cucumber crop on hill and flat land in Sitakunda, Chattogram, combined with high vegetable prices, is bringing a good income to at least 720 farmers.
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Successful Farmer Shahjahan Dreams of Educating His Son Abroad
A 62-year-old farmer who has grown vegetables on leased land in Siddhirganj for 40 years is funding his children's higher education and preparing to send his son abroad to study.
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Farmers Sow Maize on the Sandy Chars of the Teesta
With the Teesta's floodwater gone, farmers in Lalmonirhat are busy sowing maize and other crops on the newly exposed sandbars despite dearer seed and fertiliser.
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Sitakunda Scores a Win With Robusta Coffee
A trial planting of Robusta coffee on 9 hectares of hill land in Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram has borne fruit in its first cultivation.
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Asadullah Makes a Living From Cauliflower in Sonargaon
A farmer in his seventies in Sonargaon has grown 3,000 cauliflowers on three plots and expects another profitable season.
Vegetables
Iqbal Hopes to Bounce Back With Watermelon and Cucumber
After the August floods wiped out his summer watermelon field, young Mirsarai farmer Iqbal Hossain has borrowed to replant watermelon, rock melon and cucumber.
Vegetables
Gaibandha Farmers Turn to Winter Vegetables to Recover
Farmers in Gaibandha hit by floods and heavy rain are busy growing winter vegetables to recover, though many say agriculture officials have given them little help.