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Fruit Flies Pierce the Fortunes of Fazli Mango Growers
Heavy rain in Chapainawabganj has brought a fruit fly attack that is splitting Fazli mangoes and leaving crores of taka worth of fruit rotting on the trees.
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Farming
Vegetables
Agriculture Information Service Explains How to Care for Chilli Plants
The Agriculture Information Service has set out how to control dieback, fruit rot and lesion disease in chilli plants.
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Kaliganj's Mostafa Succeeds with Foreign Mulberry Varieties
A Gazipur farmer who planted three foreign mulberry varieties on trial has had a strong first harvest and plans to farm them commercially.
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Hill Jackfruit in Demand on the Plains
Demand for hill jackfruit is rising on the plains, with over a hundred trucks a week leaving Khagrachhari's Matiranga market for other districts.
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Atiar's 'Brunei King' Mango Spreads Across the Country
A giant mango from the Sultan of Brunei's orchard, brought to Magura in 2014, has become the district's signature variety and is spreading nationwide.
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Miyazaki Mango Sells at Tk 900 a kg in the Hills
After the success of Amrapali, farmers in the Khagrachhari hills are growing colourful foreign mangoes that sell for Tk 600 to 900 a kg.
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Lovely Akter Succeeds with Sweet Indian Grapes in Barishal
A Babuganj woman who learnt from YouTube has turned 47 Indian Chhomchhom grape vines into a trellis heavy with fruit.
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Afrahim Badsha Finds Success as a Litchi Grower in Dinajpur
Former power-technology engineer Afrahim Badsha Manik has followed his father into litchi farming in Biral, Dinajpur, and expects to sell about Tk 50 lakh worth of fruit this year.
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Alauddin Set to Earn Tk 1.5 Lakh From Banana Farming in Pakundia
A Kishoreganj farmer who planted 200 G-9 banana saplings supplied free by the agriculture office expects to earn Tk 1.5 lakh.
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Mominur Succeeds With Mulch Vegetable Farming in Sharsha
A 65-year-old Sharsha farmer has done well growing hybrid vegetables with plastic mulch, selling more than Tk 1 lakh worth so far.
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629 Farmers in Narail Set Up Family Nutrition Gardens
Family nutrition gardens are catching on in Narail, where 629 farmers in the Sadar upazila have planted vegetables on fallow land and around their homes.
Fruits
Ishwardi's Pesticide-Free Bagged Litchis Head to the UAE
Pesticide-free litchis grown with the fruit-bagging method in Ishwardi, Pabna, are being exported to the United Arab Emirates for the first time.
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Gobinda Nagar, Thakurgaon's Crore-Taka Litchi Village
Orchard owners in Gobinda Nagar, known as Thakurgaon's litchi village, still hope to sell more than a crore taka worth of litchis despite heat damage.