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How to Grow Coriander Leaves Without Soil or Sand
Coriander leaves can be grown on a balcony all year round, even without soil or sand, using a simple basket-over-water method.
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Vegetables
How to Care for Colourful Petunias
Petunias brighten a winter garden, but they flower well only with the right light, water, soil, feeding and pruning.
Vegetables
Kurigram Farmers Busy Planting Potatoes
Encouraged by good prices last year, farmers across Kurigram, including on the river chars, are busy planting potatoes on a target of 7,100 hectares.
Vegetables
Tangail Farmers Busy Growing Winter Vegetables
Farmers in Tangail, hit by heavy rain and floods this year, are busy growing winter vegetables to make up their losses.
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Young Agri-Entrepreneurs Succeed With Early Vegetables
Young entrepreneurs are leading a shift to early winter vegetables in Chattogram, where vegetable output has nearly doubled in a decade.
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Bean Farmers See a Ray of Hope After Weathering Disaster
After three spells of heavy rain devastated early bean crops in Ishwardi, Pabna, most plants have recovered and good prices are giving farmers hope.
Vegetables
Cucumber Being Grown on 302 Hectares in Kurigram
Farmers in Kurigram are busy growing early winter cucumber to make up for this year's flood losses, drawn by low costs and good profits.
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Pabna Farmers Fear Lower Yield of Murikata Onion
Repeated heavy rain delayed early murikata onion planting in Pabna by two to three weeks and rotted seed in low land, leaving farmers worried about yield and profit.
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Kurigram Farmers Show Growing Interest in Chuijhal Cultivation
Farmers in Kurigram are earning extra income by growing the climbing spice chuijhal on mango and betel nut trees with little care and no fertiliser.
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Seaweed-Enriched Feed Makes Commercial Seabass Farming Possible
Researchers at Patuakhali Science and Technology University have farmed coral (seabass) commercially in ponds using artificial feed enriched with seaweed.
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Fertiliser and Irrigation Management in Potato Cultivation
A guide to the fertiliser doses a bigha of potato needs at planting and at earthing up, and to the irrigation that follows.
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What to Do When Crops Get Leaf Blight
Leaf blight, a bacterial disease spread by dew, water and wind, affects rice and many vegetables, and can be prevented and controlled with simple steps.
Vegetables
Production Costs Rise in Early Potato Farming
Early potato farmers in Dinajpur say higher prices for seed, fertiliser, pesticide and labour have doubled their production costs.