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What Happens to Your Body When You Eat Ripe Papaya Every Day
Eating ripe papaya daily can help digestion, ease constipation, boost immunity and support heart health, skin and weight control.
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Mirsarai Farmers Warm to Summer Watermelon Farming
Farmers in Mirsarai, Chattogram, are succeeding with summer watermelon grown under mulch and organic methods, and the area under the crop is growing.
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How to Grow Sharifa Fruit
A guide to growing sharifa, also called ata, from seed or grafts, with soil, fertiliser, pest control and harvesting advice.
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How to Grow Lemons
Lemons can be grown on rooftops, verandas and courtyards across Bangladesh, and May to October is the right time to plant them.
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What Happens to the Body If You Take Vitamin C Every Day?
Vitamin C strengthens immunity and helps the skin, brain, eyes, heart and lungs, and because the body cannot store it, it must be eaten every day.
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Which Foods Should You Avoid at Breakfast?
Dr Shriram Nene, husband of actress Madhuri Dixit, has named white bread, sweetened yoghurt, fruit juice, processed meat and sugary foods as things not to eat at breakfast.
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Abdus Sobhan Turns a Profit Growing Bananas
Farmers in Sonargaon, Narayanganj, are profiting from commercial banana farming, among them 60-year-old Abdus Sobhan, who planted a large orchard three years ago.
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Sajib Succeeds With Dragon Fruit on 12 Acres in Madaripur
A young man in Madaripur Sadar has built a 12-acre dragon fruit business that sold Tk 32 lakh of fruit last year and employs 10 workers.
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Jackfruit Seed Bharta and Dal to Go With Hot Rice
Two simple Bengali recipes turn leftover jackfruit seeds into a lentil dal and a spicy mashed bharta.
FruitsTangail school teacher builds a commercial lotkon orchard in the Ghatail hills
A retired agricultural science teacher in Rasulpur, Ghatail, sold Tk 5 lakh worth of lotkon the previous year from about 2,500 fruiting trees on 7.5 acres, Jagonews24 reported on 25 July 2024.
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Rajshahi Mango Growers Caught Out at Season's End
With transport halted by the student movement and curfew, large quantities of mangoes ripened and rotted on the trees in the Rajshahi region at the end of the season.
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Beauty Care With Ripe Mango
Three homemade face packs using ripe mango, with milk and oatmeal, honey and lemon, or gram flour, for common summer skin problems.
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China's 'Minor Heat'
A Beijing-based writer describes Xiaoshu, or Minor Heat, the 11th of China's 24 solar terms, and the weather, farm work, flowers and foods that go with it.