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Continuous Rain Damages Aman and Vegetables in Mirsharai
Three days of heavy rain and hill runoff have damaged aman seedbeds and vegetables in Mirsharai, Chattogram, and left low-income workers without jobs.
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Jhalakathi Farmers Busy with Aman Cultivation, Fear Seed Shortage
Farmers in Jhalakathi are busy planting aman but fear a seed shortage after heavy rain damaged seedbeds, and complain of an artificial fertiliser crisis.
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Enough Fertiliser in Stock, No Shortage for Aman: Agriculture Ministry
The Ministry of Agriculture says Bangladesh has enough urea, TSP, DAP and MoP in stock to avoid any fertiliser shortage this aman season.
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Early Aman Planting Hit by Drought
After rain in Asharh but none in mid-Srabon, aman farmers in Dinajpur face drought and are irrigating their fields to plant and save seedlings.
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Farmers Anxious Over Aman as Rain Fails to Come
A dry monsoon has forced farmers in Nandigram, Bogura, to run tubewells to prepare Aman fields, raising costs and worries about this season's crop.
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Rice and Vegetables Worth Tk 45 Crore of 10,000 Farmers Damaged
Three rounds of flooding in Sunamganj have destroyed Aus rice and vegetables worth Tk 45 crore belonging to 10,000 small farmers.
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Rice Prices Rising Quietly, Buyers Helpless
The price of every type of rice in Dinajpur's Birampur rose by Tk 4-5 a kg in a week, and traders blame a syndicate of mill owners.
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Paddy Prices Are Higher, but Fertiliser and Pesticide Costs Hit Farmers
Boro paddy is selling for more than last season in Dinajpur, but rising fertiliser, pesticide and irrigation costs have pushed farmers on leased land into losses.
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Government Paddy Procurement Lists in Disarray in Rush to Meet Targets
The lists of farmers selling paddy to the government in Habiganj are riddled with wrong names and phone numbers, and the food and agriculture departments blame each other.
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Sirajganj Paddy Procurement at Risk of Stumbling Again
With only 1,067 tonnes bought against an 8,916-tonne target, Sirajganj's Boro paddy procurement looks set to fall short for a third year.
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PM Gets Tk 96,000 Selling Paddy from Her Ancestral Land
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has received Tk 96,000 for three tonnes of paddy from her ancestral land, sold to the government at Tk 32 a kg.
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Civil Society Writes to Government to Stop Golden Rice and Bt Brinjal
Civil society representatives have written to the government calling for a halt to commercial approval of Golden Rice and withdrawal of Bt brinjal's approval.
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Nilphamari Farmers Happy With Boro Yield, Frustrated by Prices
Farmers in Nilphamari are harvesting a good Boro crop but say production costs have risen while paddy prices have fallen, leaving them facing losses.