A purple potato from the University of Minnesota's breeding programme that keeps its colour when cooked is being grown for farmers markets and local restaurants.
The district DAE puts the August-December seedling trade on about 10 hectares at Panchasar at Tk 15-20 crore; with fields waterlogged, farmers cannot transplant and buyers have stopped coming, while heavy rain rots cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli, tomato, brinjal and chilli seedlings under their bamb
The DAE team visited 26 of the stores and found most shut or limping, running on grid power instead of solar and sprouting potatoes within 15 days; 150 of a planned 180 have been built under two projects, 50 without a power connection; the inquiry says they are not commercially viable and should not
Water from upstream submerged 309.59 hectares in Paba, Bagha and Godagari, including 45 ha of vegetables, 85 ha of black gram and 102 ha of turmeric; farmers at Kasba and Alimganj lost pointed gourd, cucumber, bitter gourd and early cauliflower, while the DAE says raised bunds and drainage saved abo
AgrotechEditing the lachrymatory factor synthase gene cut enzyme activity to under 40 percent of controls in leaves and bulbs, but the edited plants were stunted and set no seed, so a commercial low-tear onion is still some way off.
Government data show the average retail price rising from Rs 29.50 a kg on 1 June to Rs 53.78 on 17 September and wholesale from Rs 22.60 to Rs 45.68; a shortfall in Maharashtra's summer crop and a late kharif harvest are blamed, and buffer-stock sales at about Rs 35 a kg and export curbs are among
Farmers in Dinajpur's Phulbari upazila are weeding, spraying and irrigating early cauliflower, cabbage, tomato, bean and radish to reach the market ahead of the season; the upazila agriculture office targets 3,375 tonnes from 150 hectares, and one grower expects Tk 3 lakh profit on a Tk 1.2 lakh out
VegetablesKnown locally as gor alu, guichcha alu or lema alu, the purple yam grows on trellises, under trees and around homesteads at almost no cost, and suffers almost no disease. From preparing pits and treating seed to planting, feeding, care and knowing the right moment to harvest, here is how to grow it properly.
VegetablesVarieties from Bogura, Chandpuri and Faridpuri to the fiery Kamranga and Akali, the nursery bed, planting distances, the fertiliser schedule per hectare and irrigation. Alongside them, how to recognise and control whitefly, thrips, aphids, the fruit borer, mites and the main diseases, and what yield a well-run field can expect.
A Saturday round of Kaptan, Nawabganj, Islambagh and Lalbagh bazars found rice, lentils, broiler, eggs, farmed fish and vegetables at the same high prices; broiler and eggs unchanged for six weeks, chinigura and atap rice up from Tk 90-100 to Tk 170-200 in three months.
For 15 years farmers in Bakhera Komolgari village of Khetlal upazila have sold 250-300 maunds of bitter gourd a day to wholesalers under a tarpaulin shed by the mosque, skipping the twice-weekly haat three kilometres away.
Rajib Ahmed of South Keraniganj learned mushroom growing from YouTube and the National Mushroom Development Institute at Savar; his farm now runs over 4,000 spawn packets and sells at Tk 300 wholesale and Tk 450 retail a kilogram.
Md Robiul Islam of Kultia union in Jashore's Manirampur processes the pith left after fibre is stripped from coconut husks into cocopeat, the growing medium used in pro-tray nurseries for tomato, chilli, brinjal, capsicum and cabbage seedlings; district and upazila extension officers have visited an
