AgribusinessFifteen farmers raising pabda on 25 hectares in Maheshpur, Jhenaidah, said they sold more than Tk 5 crore of the fish to India the year before, with Indian traders paying Tk 360 a kg at the pond, and more farmers were joining them.
Dab begun, a large aubergine named for its resemblance to a green coconut, yields 5-7 kg a plant and sells at Tk 40-50 a kg.
Three farmers in Delduar, Tangail, who inherited small plots, have bought more land, built homes and educated their children by selling hundreds of maunds of rice.
Farmers in Sharsha, Jashore, are switching from Swarna to BRRI dhan87, a fine-grained Aman variety that matures 15 days earlier and sells more easily.
Lower costs, good prices and government incentives have steadily expanded maize farming in Naogaon, with Atrai upazila far in the lead.
Miscreants have cut down the banana trees of a farmer in Naldanga upazila of Natore who took up farming after failing to find a job.
An agriculture department innovation is turning unused land along the Gaibandha-Saghata regional highway into vegetable gardens for local families.
Scientific beekeeping has created work for about four and a half lakh farmers in Bangladesh, according to the DAE and exhibitors at the National Bee Fair in Dhaka.
Farmers in Naogaon are increasingly growing malta, a sweet citrus fruit, as other crops' prices fall and costs rise.
Pineapple can meet family nutrition needs and bring extra income, and this guide covers everything from capital to harvest and markets.
Farmers across Gaibandha's seven upazilas are planting IRRI-Boro rice in cold and fog, complaining of rising costs and poor paddy prices.
Bangladesh's first commercial crocodile farm, in Bhaluka, has grown from 74 adults to about 3,500 crocodiles and earns around Tk 15 crore a year from exports.
A Raninagar farmer who learned about squash from a YouTube report has had a good first harvest with support from the agriculture department.
