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Guava Markets Line the Roads to Bhimruli
Guava traders crowd the roadside canals leading to Bhimruli in Jhalokati, where prices are better this year but drought-hit flowering has cut the harvest.
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How to Grow Winged Bean (Kamranga Shim)
Kamranga shim, a climbing bean whose flowers, pods, vines, leaves and roots are all edible, suits hill districts and homestead gardens and needs little water or fertiliser.
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Rain Held Hostage by Heat, Farmers Distraught Over Dry Seedbeds
With July rainfall about half of normal and August forecast to stay hot, fields that should be flooded are cracked and farmers are distraught over Aman and Aus cultivation.
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Mango Exports Reach 2,700 Tonnes This Year, Most to the UK
Bangladesh has exported 2,700 tonnes of mangoes so far this year, about 1,000 tonnes more than last year, with the United Kingdom the largest buyer.
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Sharsha Farmers Worried About Transplanted Aman
With little rain even in the monsoon, farmers in Sharsha, Jashore, are irrigating to plant transplanted Aman rice, and the extra cost has left them anxious.
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Omar Sharif Succeeds With Avocado Farming in Mirsarai
Young entrepreneur Md Omar Sharif has become the first to grow avocado on trial in Mirsarai, and now plans to expand and sell seedlings.
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No Rain at Height of Season, Aman Farming in Doubt
A lack of rain at the height of the season has left Mirsarai farmers unsure whether they can grow aman at all this year.
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Khagrachhari's Successful Agri-Entrepreneur Nurul Alam
Md Nurul Alam, who worked in IT, is growing desert dates commercially on the hills of Matiranga in Khagrachhari.
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Farmers Struggle to Plant Aman Even in the Rainy Season
Scant monsoon rain has forced Thakurgaon farmers to plant aman using costly machine irrigation, with seedlings drying in the heat.
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Atikullah's Green Dream Hangs From the Trellis
A farmer in his sixties in Kaliganj, Gazipur, has drawn crowds with sweet grapes on about a bigha of trellises, once mocked by his neighbours.
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Eight Farmers Succeed With Watermelon in Mirsharai
Summer watermelon has been grown in Mirsharai for the first time, with eight farmers in eight unions selling fruit at Tk 60-80 a kg.
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Mirsharai Okra Worth Tk 2.5 Crore at Market
Farmers in Mirsharai have had a bumper okra harvest this season, with the crop worth an estimated Tk 2.62 crore.
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Jhalakathi's Bilati Gab Is Travelling Across the Country
Bilati gab, a red fruit that grows without planting or care in Jhalakathi, is now collected from villages and sent to cities across Bangladesh.