CropsFarmers in Hatibandha, Lalmonirhat, blocked the Lalmonirhat-Patgram-Burimari highway at Parulia Bazar demanding fertiliser, accusing a dealer of selling it on the black market.
AgribusinessTractors shut a road between Portugal and Spain over diesel prices as European Commission figures show farm output prices down 5.8% year on year in the second quarter while input costs rose 4.7%.
Farmers in Ulipur, Kurigram blocked the Kurigram-Chilmari road for about an hour after a dealer and two extension officers left without distributing fertiliser.
About 2,000 protesters outside the Bucharest government headquarters on 15 September threw rocks and barriers at riot police, who answered with tear gas; 26 were detained and 24 needed treatment. The EU has extended its ban on live sheep exports to 31 December 2026 after PPR and sheep-and-goat-pox o
Farmers in Ulipur, Kurigram, surrounded a sub-assistant agriculture officer at Gabtali bazar on Friday evening, alleging that dealers are not selling urea at the government price while retailers charge up to Tk 50 a kilogram; police freed him after about half an hour.
Farmers who arrived at a dealer's point in Nageshwari's Gabtala Bazar to find the fertiliser gone blocked the Madarganj-Kachakata road with tree trunks on Friday morning and confined a sub-assistant agriculture officer in the warehouse for about four hours.
Farmers blocked roads at Nageshwari in Kurigram after waiting all morning for fertiliser; one dealer said he had 40 sacks in store against about 600 farmers.
