Sharsha Farmers Succeed With Lettuce Cultivation
Farmers in Sharsha upazila of Jashore have had remarkable success growing lettuce, a foreign leaf crop, in parts of Sadar and Ulashi unions this year.
Farmers in Sharsha upazila of Jashore have had remarkable success growing lettuce, a foreign leaf crop, in parts of Sadar and Ulashi unions this year.
Farmers in Mirsarai upazila of Chattogram are profiting from sweet potatoes, grown mostly on sandy chars, with little investment and advice from the upazila agriculture office.
Potato farming without tillage is spreading in Patuakhali, where seed tubers are laid on soft soil after Aman and covered with straw, cutting costs and beating salinity.
Cabbage is selling for Tk 5 a head at the end of the season in Birampur, Dinajpur, bringing losses for farmers but relief for buyers.
Bangladesh and China exchanged a draft free trade agreement feasibility study, with Beijing signalling interest in Bangladeshi mango, jackfruit, potato, jute and leather goods.
Farmers on the remote chars of Bhola are switching to capsicum, a low-cost, low-pest crop that has earned some of them Tk 4-5 lakh this season.
Surrounded by new buildings, Minjar Hossain keeps farming bottle gourd on a small plot in Siddhirganj and is enjoying his best harvest in years.
Farmers on two isolated chars in Bhola have kept rain, tidal water and salinity off their vegetables this year by growing them on raised trellises.
A Sonagazi farmer who grew khira on one bigha of fallow land on a trial basis sold about Tk 2 lakh worth from an outlay of Tk 7,000.
A Government Titumir College student who began gardening with a single Tk 350 plant during the pandemic now has plants worth lakhs of taka.
Char farmers along the Padma in Faridpur have reaped a bumper sweet pumpkin crop on once-fallow sandy land this year.
With no buyers at Arani municipal haat in Bagha, Rajshahi, bottle gourd farmers took their produce home or left it behind at the market.
Two cousins, Esha and Lamia, have turned the roof of their home in Banasree, Dhaka, into a garden of flowers, fruit and vegetables.