Fisheries
How to Raise Fish in an Aquarium
Aquarium fish brighten a home, office or business, and this guide covers choosing a tank, seasonal species, feed and routine care.
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Cultivation
Fisheries
What You Need to Know About Pabda Fish Farming
A question-and-answer guide to rearing pabda, a popular fish that is becoming scarce in Bangladesh.
FisheriesHow to Farm Pabda Fish in a Pond: Preparation, Stocking, Feeding and Harvest
Pabda, a prized small catfish now scarce in Bangladesh's open waters, can be raised in ponds; this guide follows the Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute's method.
Fisheries
How to Farm Shol Fish
Shol, a high-priced predatory fish, is cheap to farm; fry must be collected from the wild and the fish is best raised alongside other species.
FlowersThe Young Man Earning 50,000 a Month Growing Flowers in Trays and Pots
A computer programmer from a farming family in Saidpur, Haryana, earns at least 50,000 a month growing flowers in trays and pots.
Fruits
Why Local Malta Farming Is Growing in Rangpur
Farmers in the Rangpur region are planting more malta each year after finding it profitable on small plots, with local fruit filling the city's wholesale markets.
Crops
BINA Dhan16 Brings Smiles to Gopalganj Farmers
A short-duration, high-yielding early aman rice from BINA is raising farmers' incomes in Gopalganj, where it yielded 6 tonnes a hectare.
Fruits
They Never Looked Back After Taking Up Malta Farming
Malta farming is catching on in Jhalokati, led by Nalchity grower Shah Alam Howlader, whose saplings have seeded more than 150 orchards among local young people.
Fruits
Banana Farming Grows Popular in Dhanbari
Banana farming is spreading in Dhanbari, Tangail, as farmers who lost money on paddy find bananas far more profitable, with 70 hectares planted this year.
Vegetables
Satkhira's Sohrab Succeeds with Squash
A farmer in Tala upazila of Satkhira has grown the foreign vegetable squash for the first time in the area, selling it at Tk 30 a kg wholesale.
Crops
Nilphamari Farmers Look to Wheat to Recover Paddy Losses
Wheat has been sown on a record area in Nilphamari this rabi season, and farmers hope good yields and prices will offset their losses from paddy.
FruitsPirojpur farmer Abdul Hai Sheikh grows amla on fallow land
In November 2018 a Pirojpur farmer said the 100 amla saplings he planted gave 25 maunds of fruit worth Tk 26,000 after four and a half years, as the district's amla area reached 44 hectares.
Daily life
Did You Know These Amazing Uses for Lemons?
Beyond being a source of vitamin C, lemons can be used around the home to whiten clothes, clean, deodorise shoes and keep insects away.