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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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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.
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Shahnaz Finds Success Raising Chickens in Her Spare Time
A housewife in Sreepur, Gazipur, has built a thriving Kadaknath chicken farm and hatchery from 200 chicks.
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How to Control Common Tomato Diseases
The agriculture department has advised farmers on the main tomato diseases and how to prevent and control them.
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Char Women Becoming Self-Reliant Through Farming
Women on the flood-hit chars of Kurigram are recovering by growing vegetables and raising livestock with help from the NGO Friendship.
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Pest Attack in Fields Leaves Meherpur Farmers at a Loss
Farmers in Meherpur say pests attacking cauliflower and cabbage cannot be controlled with pesticides and the agriculture office has not helped.