A college teacher and his brothers pulled down their brick kiln on the Nabaganga river in Kalia, Narail, and built a 23-acre dragon fruit garden that has already earned Tk 16 lakh this year.
Farmers in Nilphamari are planting early potatoes on high land in the hope that new-season prices will double their profit.
Farmers in Mirsarai, Chattogram, have grown winter vegetables on 1,800 hectares this season, with most crops due at market in 15 days to a month.
VegetablesMohi Uddin of Banshbaria, Sitakunda, told Jagonews24 in October 2023 that he sold Tk 2.96 lakh of Rupban beans from about 250 decimals of hill land in one market; the report put his season's sales at Tk 8 lakh, with Tk 4 lakh more hoped for.
Mango growers in Chapainawabganj say fake and low-quality paclobutrazol has flooded the market and is giving them no results.
Aus paddy production in Mirsarai, Chattogram, beat its target by 3,378 tonnes this season, and farmers are also getting good prices.
Farmers on the hills of Sitakunda, Chattogram, have turned Rupban beans into a thriving crop sold across the country.
Safe food cannot be guaranteed by processing alone, the writer argues, so Good Agricultural Practices must be followed at every stage of the food chain.
Nurul Mostafa, who came home to Mirsarai ill after years abroad, started a banana garden with 50 seedlings and now pays for his sons' college from it.
With autumn giving way to late autumn, farmers across Ishwardi in Pabna are busy planting winter vegetables, some of them early.
A schoolteacher in Barguna who spent Tk 20 lakh planting dragon fruit on two acres has sold Tk 7.5 lakh worth of fruit so far.
Men and women farmers in Jhalakathi are busy planting and tending winter vegetables, grown commercially and sent to Dhaka and Barishal.
Year-round banana farming is lifting growers in the Khagrachhari hills, though poor communications keep them from fetching the right price.
