Fruits
Extra Income from Pineapple Farming
Pineapple can meet family nutrition needs and bring extra income, and this guide covers everything from capital to harvest and markets.
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Agribusiness
Pure Cow's Milk at Tk 60 a Kg
Markets across Sandwip sell fresh cow's milk every morning at Tk 50-60 a kg, though no one tests whether it is really pure.
Agribusiness
How to Spot Adulterated Fertiliser
Farmers can tell genuine chemical fertiliser from adulterated stock with a few simple tests using heat, water and lime.
Vegetables
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.
Agribusiness
If You Want to Raise Turmeric Production
Turmeric output could rise with BARI varieties, and a locally made polishing machine can replace slow hand-beating after harvest.
Agribusiness
Bees Visit Two Million Flowers to Make a Pound of Honey
Producing one pound of honey takes bees about two million flowers and some 80,000 km of flight, and their pollination supports a third of our food.
Agribusiness
Biofertiliser Meets the Need for Urea
A microbial biofertiliser developed by BINA supplies the nitrogen that pulse and oilseed crops would otherwise get from urea.
Agribusiness
Correct Use of Guti Urea: Part One
Deep-placed guti urea more than doubles urea efficiency and raises rice yields by 20-25 percent, and this first part explains how to apply it.
Agribusiness
Correct Use of Guti Urea: Final Part
The final part of our guide to guti urea covers randomly planted rice, other crops and how briquettes outperform prilled urea.
Crops
Perching and Light Traps for Pest Control Spread in Sirajganj
Perching and light traps are becoming popular in Sirajganj and the Chalan Beel area, with about 56,890 hectares under perching and 425 light traps set up.
Flowers
Wildflowers Blooming in Neglect
A Noakhali university student photographs the neglected wildflowers that bloom by roadsides and in the woods.
Fruits
Dragon Fruit Changes a Farmer's Fortune
A Kaliganj farmer who wanted to do something different is selling dragon fruit at Tk 350-400 a kg and targets Tk 22 lakh in sales this year.
Crops
Floating Agriculture: A Promise of Many Possibilities
Floating beds made of water hyacinth let farmers in waterlogged districts grow vegetables, spices and Aman rice seedlings through the flood season.
Agribusiness
Date Palm Molasses Sells at Tk 90 a Kg
Molasses prices at Chuadanga's traditional Sarojganj market have risen to Tk 90 a kg as date palms are felled to fuel brick kilns.
Agribusiness
Crocodile Farming Earns Tk 15 Crore a Year
Bangladesh's first commercial crocodile farm, in Bhaluka, has grown from 74 adults to about 3,500 crocodiles and earns around Tk 15 crore a year from exports.
Agribusiness
Busy Date Palm Molasses Market, Tk 70 a Kg
The twice-weekly date palm molasses market beside Jayrampur railway station in Chuadanga is in full swing, with wholesale molasses at Tk 60-70 a kg.
Fruits
100 Oranges for Tk 200
Moulvibazar's orange growers got a bigger crop this year but are losing fruit to insects and selling early at low prices.
EnvironmentTemperature Above 20C Reported on Antarctica's Seymour Island
Brazilian scientists reported that the temperature on Seymour Island, off the Antarctic Peninsula, reached 20.75C on 9 February 2020. The World Meteorological Organization said the reading had to be verified before it could count as a record.
Crops
Farmers Busy Planting IRRI-Boro Despite Cold and Fog
Farmers across Gaibandha's seven upazilas are planting IRRI-Boro rice in cold and fog, complaining of rising costs and poor paddy prices.
Vegetables
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.