VegetablesKurigram cold-store potatoes sell at Tk 11-12, a loss of Tk 8-9 a kilo
Growing and storing a kilogram of potatoes costs more than Tk 20, yet in Kurigram they sell for Tk 11-12; one cold store alone still holds 5,000 tonnes unsold.
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OpinionA home lost to the river 17 times: Tuhin Wadud writes from the Teesta bank
Professor Tuhin Wadud writes in Prothom Alo about people on the Teesta and Dharla in Kurigram who keep losing their homes to erosion. He argues the government could stop it. The views are the writer's own.
Agribusiness
Rotten fallen betel nuts become factory raw material in Kurigram's Rajarhat
Traders in Rajarhat, Kurigram, buy about 50 tonnes a month of dried, rotten betel nuts at Tk 60-100 a kilogram and send them to paint and chemical factories, giving seasonal work to more than a hundred mostly women workers.
CropsKurigram's first onion seed crop gives Rajarhat farmers new hope
A farmer in Chhatmadhai village of Kurigram's Rajarhat upazila grew onion seed on about 60 decimals in the 2025-26 season, the district's first such effort, and local agriculture officials said home-grown seed could cut farmers' costs.