Mirsarai's Nur Alam succeeds with carrots at first try
Farmer Nur Alam has succeeded at his first attempt at growing carrots in Mirsarai, Chattogram.
Farmer Nur Alam has succeeded at his first attempt at growing carrots in Mirsarai, Chattogram.
Farmers across Feni are turning to the high-yielding Udayan Plus tomato, drawn by good prices and relatively low labour and costs.
Tomato growers in Rajbari have harvested a bumper hybrid crop and expect profits if current prices hold, though they complain of high costs and little official support.
Abdulpur and Bagdanga villages in Jashore Sadar produce about 12 crore vegetable seedlings in an eight-month season and sell them for about Tk 15 crore.
Severe cold and dense fog have made the flowers fall from bean plants in Mirsarai, Chattogram, leaving farmers afraid of a crop failure.
Monjurul Ahsan, a college student and vegetable grower in Sharsha, Jashore, has made a profit from squash, a crop new to the area, with help from the agriculture department.
Intense cold and dense fog are damaging boro seedbeds and winter crops across Bangladesh, raising farmers' fears for boro and potato production.
Cucumber farming is growing in Patuakhali, where good demand and prices are drawing more farmers and the crop is being sent beyond the district.
Farmers in Mirsarai, Chattogram, are profiting from cauliflower, and the area under the crop is growing as wholesalers buy straight from the fields.
With little cold or fog so far, Boro seedbed preparation has raced ahead of last year and is set to beat its target, though farmers worry about rising costs.
Ten solar-powered irrigation pumps installed by BADC in Nilphamari now irrigate 250 hectares for about 500 farmers, turning sandy single-crop char land productive.
The final HIES 2022 report shows daily rice intake falling while consumption of vegetables, fruit, bread, eggs and milk has risen.
Dinajpur has had an unusually mild December, and officials fear reduced rabi crop output while winter clothing sellers report weak sales.