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Cold Hits Boro, Potato and Mustard Farmers
Prolonged cold and dense fog are reddening boro seedbeds, raising late blight risk in potatoes and cutting yields of beans and mustard across Bangladesh.
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How to Care for Boro Rice Seedbeds in Winter
With cold waves likely later in the winter, Boro rice farmers need to take extra care of their seedbeds to keep seedlings healthy.
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Rice Prices to Fall Further in 2026, Tougher Action on Unhealthy Food
The Economist Intelligence Unit expects global food prices to keep easing in 2026, led by rice, while labour, aid and environmental rules bring new challenges.
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Jamuna Bank Farmers Pin Their Hopes on Black Boro Rice
Landless farmers along the Jamuna in Dhunat, Bogura, grow black boro rice without ploughing on newly surfaced chars, at almost no production cost.
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Farmers in Joypurhat Turn to Perching to Control Pests in Aman Rice
Farmers in Joypurhat are using the perching method on about 40,000 hectares of Aman rice, letting insect-eating birds control pests instead of pesticides.
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Government Makes Record Paddy and Rice Procurement in Boro Season
The Directorate of Food says its boro procurement drive, which ended on 15 August, collected more paddy and rice than ever before in Bangladesh's history.
CropsBangladesh government grain stock hits a record as boro procurement nears its highest
Government warehouses held 2,054,179 tonnes of food grain on 27 July 2025, which the Directorate of Food called the highest ever. Boro season procurement of paddy and rice had passed 1.428 million tonnes by the same date.
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Paddy Granaries Vanishing in Madaripur
The traditional bamboo-and-cane paddy granary, or gola, once found in nearly every home in Madaripur, is disappearing.
CropsMymensingh farmers say harvester owners overcharge to cut Boro rice
In May 2025 farmers in Mymensingh alleged that combine harvester owners were asking Tk 1,000 to Tk 1,200 to cut 10 decimals of rice, against an official rate of Tk 540, amid a labour shortage and complaints that traders took extra paddy per maund.
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Changing Irrigation Can Cut Arsenic in Rice by 40 Per Cent
A Bangladesh Agricultural University project says alternating three days of flooding with four days of drainage can reduce arsenic in rice by up to 40 per cent without cutting yields.
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Machine Farming Raises Yields and Cuts Labour and Costs in Cumilla
A 50-acre synchronised farming block in Debidwar, Cumilla, using rice transplanters, combine harvesters and BRRI dhan102 averaged 91 maunds an acre and saved Tk 19,815 an acre.
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A Market for Paddy Harvest Labourers Wakes at Dawn
Each boro season, farm labourers gather at dawn at Nurbag in Abhaynagar, Jashore, waiting for farmers to hire them to cut paddy.
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Jhenaidah Farmers Happy with Boro Yield but Hit by Late Storms and Rain
Jhenaidah farmers have a bumper boro crop on more land than targeted, but rain and gusty winds at the end of April have wet the grain and complicated harvesting.