Vegetables
Started With Tk 12,000, Tahsin Now Owns Two Nurseries
Tahsin Ahmed, who came to Dhaka from Mymensingh after his SSC exams in 2015, started Ruma Nursery with just Tk 12,000 and now runs two nurseries in the capital.
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The Upazila That Sells Tk 900 Crore of Vegetables a Year
Vegetable farming has brought a quiet revolution to more than 50 villages in several unions of Thakurgaon Sadar upazila, which the agriculture department says sell about Tk 900 crore of vegetables a year.
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Farmers See a Bright Future in Coloured Cauliflower
In Natore's Gurudaspur, Md Abdul Alim of Bilkathor village has succeeded with yellow and purple cauliflower on a first trial, the first coloured cauliflower grown in the district.
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Tomatoes on 1 Acre 60 Decimals Destroyed in Sitakunda
A disease that blackened and scorched tomato plants has destroyed the crop of 12 farmers on 160 decimals at Imamnagar in Sitakunda's Bhatiary union, and farmers accuse the local agriculture officer of never visiting.
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Pesticide Kills 6,000 Tomato Plants, Tk 20 Lakh Loss
A farmer in Rajoir, Madaripur, has lost tomatoes on two bigha of land, about 6,000 plants, after applying a pesticide to control insects, a loss he puts at Tk 15 lakh to Tk 20 lakh.
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Hill-Slope Tomatoes Raise a Farmer's Hopes of Tk 50 Lakh
Farmer Md Abu Sayeed hopes to earn Tk 50 lakh from tomatoes grown on hill slopes about 300 feet above the plain at Mestarir Char in Matiranga, Khagrachhari.
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Farmers Score With Valentina and Carotina Cauliflower
Purple "Valentina" and yellow "Carotina" cauliflowers fetch double the price of white ones, and farmers in Shariatpur are growing more of them each year.
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Sharsha Farmer Ataur Profits From Bean Farming
Farmer Ataur Rahman of Sharsha in Jashore has profited from growing an early summer IPSA-1 hybrid bean variety, one of 45 hectares of early beans in the upazila this year.
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Sitakunda farmers grow 12,000 coloured cauliflowers
Coloured cauliflowers have been grown in Sitakunda, Chattogram, for the second year, with the number rising from 1,200 to 12,000.
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'Tal begun' brinjal changes the fortunes of Mirsarai farmers
Brinjal farmers in Mirsarai, Chattogram, are earning well, many of them from the high-yielding tal begun variety.
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Kishoreganj farmer earns a lakh taka from yellow cauliflower
Farmer Abul Hasim in Pakundia, Kishoreganj, has earned a lakh taka from coloured cauliflower grown with organic fertiliser only.
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Two Sitakunda farmers succeed with their first beetroot crop
Two farmers in Sitakunda, Chattogram, have had a good yield from beetroot in their first attempt at the crop.
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Mirsarai farmer Muslim succeeds with squash
Farmer Muslim Uddin has succeeded in growing squash on a trial plot of 10 decimals in Katachhara union, Mirsarai.