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Lakshmipur's Harun in Trouble After Growing Broccoli
A Kamalnagar farmer's first broccoli crop yielded well, but local buyers unfamiliar with the vegetable have left him struggling to sell it.
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Vegetables
A Festival of Onion Planting in Pabna
Pabna's farmers are busy planting onions in a festive mood, but rising costs and falling prices have left them worried about profits.
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Onion Planting in Full Swing in Faridpur
Farmers across Faridpur are busy planting hali onions after strong profits from the muri-kata crop, with 68 per cent of the target area already planted.
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Latiraj Kachu Is Easy to Grow
Latiraj kachu, a water taro grown for its stolons, sells for Tk 70-80 a kg and is easy to grow, as this cultivation guide explains.
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Six Countries Take the Lion's Share of Bangladesh's Vegetable Exports
Although Bangladesh exports fresh vegetables to more than 40 countries, most of the earnings have long come from just six, as high air freight lets India and Pakistan take over markets.
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An Easy Way to Grow Winter Bottle Gourd
Bottle gourd, a popular winter vegetable now grown all year, can be raised easily from polybag seedlings in pits around the homestead or in the field.
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Easy Ways to Grow Peas
Peas, a popular winter vegetable and pulse, grow best in well-drained loam sown in November, with careful land preparation, fertiliser and irrigation.
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Potato Storage House Project Proposed Without Study Questioned
The Planning Commission has questioned a Department of Agricultural Marketing project to build 450 model potato storage houses, saying it was proposed without any research or feasibility study.
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Cyclone Disrupts Potato Planting, Output May Fall
Cyclone Jawad struck at potato planting time, damaging fields in Munshiganj and elsewhere and raising fears that this season's output will fall.
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"BINA's Sunflower Varieties Will Revolutionise Oil Crops Once Released"
The Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture expects to release three advanced sunflower lines within three years, which scientists say could spread sunflower on fallow land.
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Teesta Farmers Try to Get Back on Their Feet
Farmers along the Teesta in Lalmonirhat, hit by a sudden flood in October, are clearing sand and sowing new crops on the dried river's chars.
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Broken Road a Thorn in the Side of Mymensingh Vegetable Farmers
Farmers in Mymensingh Sadar's vegetable-growing chars say the narrow, broken Shambhuganj-Paranganj road is costing them their profits.
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Bumper Bean Yield in Meherpur
With no natural disaster this season, bean farmers in Meherpur are profiting from a good harvest grown on 550 hectares.