CropsIn October 2021 jhum farmers in Rangamati's hills began cutting a good crop of hill paddy; some in Mogban union had planted Turki, a rice they said came from Mizoram in India, and the DAE put the district's jhum rice at 5,580 hectares.
FruitsWhite, cotton-like patches on pomegranate leaves, twigs and fruit mean mealybugs are sucking the tree's sap. Here is how to recognise them and control them with pruning, trunk bands, natural enemies and neem, keeping chemical sprays as a last resort.
FruitsIn 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.
FruitsOn 10 March 2020 ECNEC approved the second revision of the Department of Agricultural Extension's project to improve nutrition through year-round fruit production, at a cost of Tk 161.05 crore.
