Fruits
Green watermelons bring smiles on a sandy char
On a seaside sand bar in Rangabali, Patuakhali, where no crop grew before, Hasi Begum's family and other farmers are now harvesting early watermelons.
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Agriculture
Agribusiness
Pesticides Put Farming at Risk
Excessive chemical fertiliser and pesticide use, along with shrinking farmland, is putting agriculture in coastal Patuakhali at risk, experts warn.
Flowers
Agriculture Officials Amazed by Delwar's Colourful Tulips
The head of the Department of Agricultural Extension visited a Gazipur flower grower whose Dutch tulips bloomed, saying tulips can be grown successfully in Bangladesh.
Environment
Locusts: How Much Is Bangladesh's Agriculture at Risk?
The Department of Agricultural Extension says locusts could reach Bangladesh after swarms hit Africa, Pakistan and India, but the risk is greater next year than this.
Crops
Paddy Prices Have Risen, but Farmers Still Fear Losses
Farmers in Naogaon are planting Iri-Boro paddy under the burden of past losses, even though paddy prices have risen in recent weeks.
Others
Some Questions and Answers on Farming
Farmers today learn before they plant, and here are answers to common questions about growing pineapple and kaon.
CropsFloating agriculture: vegetables, spices and Aman seedlings on water hyacinth beds
Jagonews24 reported in August 2017 that farmers in waterlogged districts were growing vegetables and spices year-round on floating water hyacinth beds, and that at least 800 floating beds had been used as Aman seedbeds in flood-hit areas that year.
Bangladesh
Women Ahead in Agricultural Higher Education Too
Female students have overtaken male students in admissions to Bangladesh's seven public agricultural universities for the first time.
Crops
How Drones Could Help Increase Crop Production
In South Africa's Western Cape, drones are monitoring a lemon orchard from the air, spotting problems such as dry patches and broken fences and feeding data to the farm.
CropsKalna farm in West Bengal trials 21 rice varieties as alternatives to Lalswarna
In September 2019 the Kalna subdivision agriculture farm in Purba Bardhaman, West Bengal, India, began trials of 21 rice varieties, looking for alternatives to the long-grown Lalswarna paddy, which officials linked to more pests, falling yields and a late rabi season.
BangladeshSheikh Mujibur Rahman's farm policy: the 1973 speech and new institutions
Published on National Mourning Day 2019, this piece sets out Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's post-independence farm policy: first-class status for agriculturists in 1973, farm loan waivers, khas land distribution and new bodies such as BARC.
Fruits
A Farm Becomes a Police Officer's Source of Peace
Deputy Inspector General of Police Manzur Kader Khan has turned two residential plots in Dhaka's 300 Feet and Purbachal areas into productive fruit gardens.
Crops
Who Is Responsible for the Fall in Paddy Prices?
Shykh Seraj examines why paddy prices collapsed in 2019, pointing to excessive rice imports after the 2017 floods, idle mills and too little government storage.