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What to Do to Raise Farm Output in Flood-Hit Areas
Floating vegetable beds, known locally as baira, can help raise farm output in Bangladesh's flooded and waterlogged areas.
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How to Grow Saffron, the World's Most Expensive Spice
A guide to saffron, known as "red gold", covering its history, the main producing countries and how to propagate and plant it.
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Modern Techniques for Growing Lentils
A step-by-step guide to growing lentils, from choosing soil and sowing seed to controlling disease, harvesting and storing seed.
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Bumper Yield from 'Fatema Rice'
A rice found by a woman in a remote part of Bagerhat, now known locally as 'Fatema rice', is drawing wide interest for its huge panicles and high yield.
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Five Harvests From One Rice Plant
Rice geneticist Abed Chowdhury has developed rice varieties that gave five harvests in a year from a single planting in Kulaura, Moulvibazar, totalling about 16 tonnes a hectare.
Environment
Soil Acidity Rises and Crop Production Falls
Soil scientists warn on World Soil Day that rising acidity, now affecting 45.67 per cent of cropland, is cutting yields and could threaten food security.
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Tea Production Rising in Bangladesh
Good weather late in the season has raised hopes that Bangladesh's tea output in 2021 will beat its target, though growers complain of a syndicate at auctions.
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Khulna Farmers Worried About Aman Yield
A good aman crop is ripening in Khulna, but a forecast of storms and heavy rain has farmers worried.
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Turki Rice Brings Smiles to Jhum Farmers
Jhum farmers in Rangamati's hills are harvesting a good crop, including a new rice variety called Turki brought from India's Mizoram.
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Bangladeshis in Portugal's Farm Sector
As Portugal turns to farming to recover from the pandemic, Bangladeshi migrants have won a strong reputation as farm workers.
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Cucumbers Pay Better Than Tobacco in Mujibnagar
A Meherpur farmer who swapped tobacco for cucumber has tripled his profit, and more than a hundred local farmers have followed.
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Early BINA Rice Varieties Bring Higher Yields at Lower Cost
Short-duration Aman rice varieties from the Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture are being harvested about a month early, cutting costs and freeing land for Rabi crops.
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Good Yield, Yet Betel Leaf Farmers in Betagi Are Disheartened
Betel leaf growers in Betagi, Barguna, have had a good harvest after months of rain but say prices have collapsed, leaving them unable to repay the loans they took to farm.