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Three Mirsharai Farmers Succeed With Coloured Cauliflower for First Time
Three farmers in Mirsharai, Chattogram, have succeeded with coloured cauliflower for the first time, growing it as demonstration plots of the upazila agriculture office.
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Purple Cabbage Grown in Thakurgaon
Purple cabbage, which needs little care and irrigation and suffers few diseases, is being grown for the first time in several upazilas of Thakurgaon.
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Tk 65 Crore Worth of Crop Produced in Sunamganj
Mustard is growing in popularity among haor farmers in Sunamganj, where this season's crop of 5,400 tonnes is worth Tk 65 crore.
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Mirsharai Teacher Lokman Succeeds With Broccoli
College teacher Md Lokman Hossain has succeeded with broccoli in Mirsharai, Chattogram, having grown the vegetable for 14 years alongside his teaching.
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Monjurul's Colourful Cauliflowers Cause a Stir in Sharsha
Monjurul Ahsan of Sharsha, Jashore, has succeeded with yellow and purple cauliflowers, and buyers come to his field every day.
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Vermicompost Changes the Fortune of Chuadanga's Asabul Haque
Asabul Haque of Chuadanga went from a tea stall to a vermicompost business with capital of over Tk 1 crore, but still lacks a licence to package his product.
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Ishwardi's Shafiqul Profits From Colourful Cauliflower
Shafiqul Islam of Ishwardi has profited from growing nutritious purple and yellow cauliflowers for the first time, and neighbours plan to follow.
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Mustard Cultivation in Pabna Rises by 70,000 Bigha
A change in cropping pattern in three Chalan Beel upazilas of Pabna has brought fallow land under mustard, lifting the district's mustard area by 10,000 hectares, or 70,000 bigha, in a year.
Vegetables
Started With Tk 12,000, Tahsin Now Owns Two Nurseries
Tahsin Ahmed, who came to Dhaka from Mymensingh after his SSC exams in 2015, started Ruma Nursery with just Tk 12,000 and now runs two nurseries in the capital.
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Farmers See a Bright Future in Coloured Cauliflower
In Natore's Gurudaspur, Md Abdul Alim of Bilkathor village has succeeded with yellow and purple cauliflower on a first trial, the first coloured cauliflower grown in the district.
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Tomatoes on 1 Acre 60 Decimals Destroyed in Sitakunda
A disease that blackened and scorched tomato plants has destroyed the crop of 12 farmers on 160 decimals at Imamnagar in Sitakunda's Bhatiary union, and farmers accuse the local agriculture officer of never visiting.
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Hill-Slope Tomatoes Raise a Farmer's Hopes of Tk 50 Lakh
Farmer Md Abu Sayeed hopes to earn Tk 50 lakh from tomatoes grown on hill slopes about 300 feet above the plain at Mestarir Char in Matiranga, Khagrachhari.
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Maize Farming Turns Farmers' Fortunes in Thakurgaon
Because it costs little and pays well, maize cultivation keeps growing in Thakurgaon, where farmers have turned to hybrid varieties as an alternative to rice and other crops.