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The Role of Micronutrients in Getting Good Yields From the Soil
Plants need a balanced diet of major nutrients and micronutrients, and correcting deficiencies can raise both the quantity and quality of the harvest.
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Solar-Powered Tube Wells Keep Narail Farmers Going Amid Diesel Crisis
Solar-powered irrigation pumps installed in two beels of Narail Sadar upazila have cut farmers' costs and freed them from worries about diesel and electricity.
FruitsCitrus canker in lemon orchards: symptoms, spread and what growers can do
Canker, a bacterial disease spread by wind-driven rain and worsened by the citrus leafminer, is one of the most damaging diseases of lemon; a guide published on 29 March 2026 set out how to recognise it and keep it in check.
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Untimely Hill Runoff Washes Away Farmers' Golden Dreams in Dhunat
An untimely rise in the Jamuna caused by upstream hill runoff has flooded low-lying char land in Dhunat, Bogura, submerging rice, onion and groundnut fields.
FruitsPanama disease in bananas: how to recognise Fusarium wilt and limit it
In a guide published by Jagonews24 on 27 March 2026, agriculture and environment specialist Samiran Biswas urged banana growers to prevent Panama disease, a soil-borne fungal wilt that is hard to control once it reaches a field.
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New Government Must Continue Subsidies on Farm Machinery, Says ACI's F. H. Ansari
ACI Agribusiness president Dr. F. H. Ansari says the new government should continue farm machinery subsidies, build cold chains and focus on the agricultural value chain.
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Bangladesh's Soil Is Well Suited to Castor Cultivation
The neglected bhenna (castor) plant, a symbol of poverty in Jasimuddin's poem, could become a source of income on Bangladesh's fallow land by replacing imported castor oil.
CropsHailstorm Damages Boro Paddy on About 4,000 Hectares in Kishoreganj
Two spells of hail on 24 March 2026 damaged boro paddy on about 4,000 hectares across Kishoreganj, the district agriculture department's first count showed, with Mithamain and the other haor upazilas hit hardest.
AgrotechDigital soil sensors and Bangladesh farming: a local IoT soil tester explained
A Jagonews24 feature of 25 March 2026 by agriculture and environment specialist Samiran Biswas described the GFL Soil Sensor, an IoT device from Genius Farms Limited that, he wrote, reads eight soil properties and gives location-based fertiliser advice through software built on Bangladeshi data.
CropsSunflowers Put Khulna's Fallow Saline Land Back to Work
Most of Bangladesh's edible oil is imported. To cut that bill, farmers across the Khulna region are growing sunflowers under the government's PARTNER project on saline land that used to lie fallow after the aman rice harvest.
CropsMirsarai farmers harvest mustard as area grows 625 hectares in five years
Mustard covered 665 hectares in Mirsarai, Chattogram, in the 2025-26 season against 40 hectares in 2019-20, the upazila agriculture office said in March 2026, as farmers harvested what they described as a good crop.
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Beekeepers Busy Collecting Litchi Flower Honey in Mongolbaria
Rows of beehives beside the litchi orchards of Mongolbaria in Kishoreganj are yielding honey while the bees help raise the litchi crop.
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Mango Blossom in the Hills: Farmers Hopeful but Anxious
Khagrachhari's hills are covered in mango blossom, but growers fear heat and a lack of rain will make the buds drop because the slopes have no irrigation.