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Dinajpur Bananas Worth a Crore Taka a Day Go Across the Country
Bananas worth about a crore taka a day are going from Dinajpur to Dhaka and other districts, as bigger harvests and better prices lift farmers.
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Tk 60 Lakh Sluice Gate of No Use to Farmers
A sluice gate built for Tk 60 lakh by the Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation at Badarpur in Fulgazi, Feni, lies useless, and farmers say it has become a thorn in their side.
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Beekeeping Grows in Bandarban, With Commercial Potential
Interest in natural beekeeping is growing in Bandarban, where backyard honey from Tetulia Para sells from the door at Tk 1,800 to 2,000 a kg.
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Cotton Farming Begins in Cumilla for the First Time
A farmer in Sadar Dakshin upazila has begun Cumilla's first cotton cultivation on a trial plot with support from the Cotton Development Board.
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Fertiliser Market in the Grip of a Syndicate, Prices Up on Artificial Crisis
A government intelligence agency report says fertiliser transport contractors and dealers are hoarding stocks to create an artificial shortage and overcharge farmers, even though warehouses hold enough for three months.
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Betel Leaf Farming in a Slump, Growers Downcast
Rising costs and falling prices are pushing betel leaf growers in Ulipur, Kurigram, to abandon a traditional crop for other farming.
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Tangail Jute Farmers Smile as Bumper Crop Meets Higher Prices
Tangail's jute area shrank this year, but good weather, better seed and higher prices have left farmers happy with a bumper harvest.
CropsFaridpur farmers profit from new 'Sabuj Sona' jute variety, BJRI Tossa Pat-9
In August 2025 farmers in Faridpur said the new jute variety BJRI Tossa Pat-9, known as Sabuj Sona (green gold), had paid off. The DAE put the district's jute area that season at 86,500 hectares, but seed was scarce.
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Off-Season Watermelon on Fish Enclosure Dykes Brings Smiles to Debhata Farmers
Unused dykes of brackish-water fish enclosures in Debhata, Satkhira, are now growing off-season watermelon that sells for Tk 70-80 a kg.
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Farmers Deprived for Want of Agro-Based Industry
Fifty-three years after independence, a shortage of processing plants, cold storage and modern rice mills still keeps Bangladesh's farmers from fair prices.
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How to Grow Bottle Gourd in the Month of Bhadra
The Agriculture Information Service says bottle gourd can be sown in Bhadra, in pits on higher ground with set doses of manure and fertiliser.
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Golpata Fruit Sold Commercially in Bagerhat
The fruit of the golpata palm, which grows untended in coastal salt water, is now sold to visitors outside the historic Sixty Dome Mosque in Bagerhat.
FruitsJhalokati guava output falls in 2025 and good prices fail to cheer growers
Drought at flowering cut the 2025 guava crop in 36 villages of Jhalokati, growers told Jagonews24 in early August, and prices of Tk 1,000 to Tk 1,200 a maund could not make up for the smaller harvest.