AgrotechThe Agricultural Information Service will text weather forecasts to registered farmer-card holders, part of a plan to bring about 24 million Bangladeshi farmers onto the card in four years.
CropsThe government aims to bring about 2.4 crore farmers into its registration, input support and farmer card programme within four years, 43 lakh of them this fiscal year. Data on 19.25 lakh farmers has been collected and 9 lakh bank accounts opened.
AgribusinessMeeting Canada's minister of state for international development, Randeep Sarai, Prime Minister Tarique Rahman set out plans to supply fertiliser and seed through farmer cards, and the two sides discussed pulses, oilseeds and CIMMYT's work on food security.
CropsPrime Minister Tarique Rahman is to launch the second pilot phase at Fulgazi in Feni; 100,047 farmers are to receive money on their cards to buy farm inputs.
CropsOn the Padma chars of Harirampur, Manikganj, women decide what is sown where and which seed is kept, yet their names are missing from land deeds, farmer lists and the new farmer card applications.
Meeting World Bank president Ajay Banga in New York, prime minister Tarique Rahman sought support for the family card and farmer card programmes.
Bangladesh has expressed interest in stronger bilateral cooperation with Italy in aquaculture, livestock, marine fisheries and the blue economy.
On the sidelines of an FAO event in Rome, State Minister for Fisheries and Livestock Sultan Salauddin Tuku and Italy's agriculture undersecretary Luigi D'Eramo discussed an MoU covering aquaculture, livestock, marine fisheries and the blue economy; the minister said fish and livestock farmers will b
Under the election-pledge farmer-card programme, Bagerhat's first-phase target is 31,374 farmers; names of 26,338 were finalised and sent to the banks by 31 August; the cards work as debit cards at Janata, Sonali and Krishi banks, and the prime minister launches distribution on 17 September with coa
At a workshop on enforcing the Fish Feed and Animal Feed Act 2010, State Minister for Fisheries and Livestock Sultan Salauddin Tuku said needless antibiotics put food safety and production costs at risk, and that the government is alert to complaints of horse meat being sold in Gazipur.
Meeting Ministry of Agriculture officials at the Secretariat, Prime Minister Tarique Rahman ordered effective steps to grow at home what Bangladesh can grow; the ministry reported mustard output up from 824,000 to 1.541 million tonnes in three years, 1,090 crop varieties, 2,617 solar irrigation syst
Speaking in Fulgazi, Feni, Agriculture Minister Mohammad Amin Ur Rashid said monitoring teams were at work, two crore farmers would get farmer cards and farm loans of up to Tk 10,000 had been waived.
Speaking at Fulgazi in Feni, Agriculture, Fisheries and Livestock Minister Mohammad Amin Ur Rashid said stocks are sufficient, blamed a racket for trying to engineer a shortage, and announced 110,000 farmer cards in a first phase.
