Vegetables
Dab Begun Sells at Tk 40 a Kg: How to Grow It
Dab begun, a large aubergine named for its resemblance to a green coconut, yields 5–7 kg a plant and sells at Tk 40–50 a kg.
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How to Look After Vegetables in Winter
Winter is the best season for vegetables, and these steps help protect them from cold and pests.
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Migrant Tomato Growers Double Their Money in Moulvibazar
Farmers who lease land to grow tomatoes in Moulvibazar are doing well on good yields and prices, but complain of no support from the agriculture department.
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How to Control Brinjal Shoot and Fruit Borer
The shoot and fruit borer is one of the most damaging pests of brinjal, but careful field management, netting and pheromone traps can keep it in check.
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Capsicum Fetches Tk 200 a Kg, Bhola Growers Profit
Favourable soil and weather have doubled capsicum farming on Bhola's river islands, where growers are earning well from the imported vegetable.
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Vegetables Grown for Tk 20,000 Sell for a Lakh
A self-taught vegetable grower in Jhalakathi's Gabkhan village earns about a lakh taka a season from a Tk 20,000 outlay.
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BSMRAU Develops Improved Bottle Gourd Varieties
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University has developed two compact, high-yielding bottle gourd varieties, BU Hybrid Lau-1 and BU Lau-1.
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Bottle Gourd at Tk 70 Each Brings Smiles for Bhola's Faruk
A farmer in Bhola Sadar has changed his fortunes growing bottle gourd, and other villagers are following his lead.
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Vegetables Along the Highway, Money and Nutrition All Year Round
An agriculture department innovation is turning unused land along the Gaibandha-Saghata regional highway into vegetable gardens for local families.
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Cassava, a Crop of Many Virtues
Cassava, a staple across much of Africa but little known in Bangladesh, can supply nutritious flour and starch for food and industry.
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Growing Potatoes Without Tillage
Growing potatoes without tillage under a water hyacinth mulch cuts costs, brings fallow land into use and can yield 25-30 tonnes a hectare.
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Late Blight Hits Potato Fields
Continuous cold and fog have spread late blight in Thakurgaon's potato fields and put boro rice seedbeds in Patgram at risk.
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Potato Farmers in Trouble in Jashore
Potato farmers in Jashore fear a serious crop failure this year after severe cold and dense fog brought late blight to their fields.