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Thakurgaon Farmers Grow Potatoes Despite the Risk
Encouraged by last year's prices, Thakurgaon farmers are planting early potatoes even though seed, fertiliser and other costs have soared.
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Vegetables
Vegetables
Hilsa Roe Bharta Recipe
Hilsa roe bharta, mashed with onion, dried chillies and mustard oil, is quick to make with few ingredients.
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Rain Leaves Satkhira Farmers Behind With Winter Vegetables
Satkhira farmers have had to replant winter vegetables at double the cost after rain and waterlogging rotted their early seedlings, putting them behind the season.
Vegetables
How to Care for Colourful Petunias
Petunias brighten a winter garden, but they flower well only with the right light, water, soil, feeding and pruning.
Vegetables
Kurigram Farmers Busy Planting Potatoes
Encouraged by good prices last year, farmers across Kurigram, including on the river chars, are busy planting potatoes on a target of 7,100 hectares.
Vegetables
Tangail Farmers Busy Growing Winter Vegetables
Farmers in Tangail, hit by heavy rain and floods this year, are busy growing winter vegetables to make up their losses.
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Young Agri-Entrepreneurs Succeed With Early Vegetables
Young entrepreneurs are leading a shift to early winter vegetables in Chattogram, where vegetable output has nearly doubled in a decade.
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Bean Farmers See a Ray of Hope After Weathering Disaster
After three spells of heavy rain devastated early bean crops in Ishwardi, Pabna, most plants have recovered and good prices are giving farmers hope.
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Students' Cheap Market Brings Relief to Low-Income People in Patuakhali
A group of students in Patuakhali buys vegetables directly from farmers and sells them at the same price in temporary markets across the town.
Vegetables
Cucumber Being Grown on 302 Hectares in Kurigram
Farmers in Kurigram are busy growing early winter cucumber to make up for this year's flood losses, drawn by low costs and good profits.
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Pabna Farmers Fear Lower Yield of Murikata Onion
Repeated heavy rain delayed early murikata onion planting in Pabna by two to three weeks and rotted seed in low land, leaving farmers worried about yield and profit.
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Vegetable Train Earns Tk 360 on First Day, Loses Tk 9 Lakh
The new farm produce special train from Rohanpur to Dhaka left without vegetables on its first day, earning Tk 360 against a cost of nearly Tk 9 lakh.
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Shaikh Ahmadullah Urges People to Grow Vegetables
Islamic scholar and popular speaker Shaikh Ahmadullah has urged people to grow vegetables on rooftops and in balcony pots wherever they can.