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Spice Innovations Stay Locked in the Lab, Absent From Farmers' Fields
The Spice Research Centre in Bogura lists 58 varieties of 27 spices and 66 technologies, yet most farmers have never heard of them and still grow decades-old varieties.
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CropsGaibandha char farmers grow vegetables and spices in sacks to beat floods
In October 2025 farmers and homemakers on the chars of Gaibandha were growing ginger, turmeric, gourds and aubergine in soil-filled sacks on raised platforms, a method promoted by the district DAE with SKS Foundation so that flood water cannot reach the crops.
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Tangail Farmers Eye Tk 58 Crore in Turmeric Sales
Farmers in Tangail's Madhupur expect to sell about Tk 58 crore worth of turmeric this year if there is no natural disaster.
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Growing Ginger in Sacks on Fallow Land Spreads in Meherpur
Growing ginger in sacks on fallow and homestead land is catching on in Meherpur, where farmers say the method costs little and needs little labour.
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Technology Is Changing Spice Farming, Led by the Spices Research Centre in Bogura
BARI's Spices Research Centre in Bogura has developed 58 spice varieties and 156 technologies, from sack-grown ginger and home-grown cumin to onion powder and year-round onions.
CropsSaffron cultivation: climate, soil, corms and Bangladesh's trials
Saffron, the world's costliest spice, needs dry summers and cool winters, and in Bangladesh's monsoon its corms rot in open fields. Here is how Kashmir grows it and what Bangladesh's trials since 2000 found.
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Shariatpur Farmers Sow Their Dreams in Coriander
Low costs and good prices are drawing more Shariatpur farmers to coriander, with this season's area of 6,280 hectares beating the target.
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Rush to Plant Hali Onion Seedlings in Manikganj
Farmers across Manikganj are working from dawn to dusk to plant hali onion seedlings, though some fear losses if onion prices do not rise.
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Sunil's Fragrant Chillies Earn Him Tk 8 Lakh a Year
A Barguna farmer known locally as 'Morich Sunil' earns an average of Tk 8 lakh a year from an acre of fragrant chillies.
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Faridpur Farmers Plant Onions in Hope of Profit
Encouraged by good prices, farmers across Faridpur's nine upazilas are planting onions on a record area this season.
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Manikganj Farmers Busy Planting Onions
Encouraged by last year's prices, Manikganj farmers are planting more onions this season, though doubled costs and a bigger crop have them worried about prices.
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Beef, Potato and Masala for Tk 160, Hilsa Polao Combo for Tk 299
Superstore chain Daily Shopping is offering two low-cost combo packs, beef with potatoes and hilsa polao, at selected outlets on Friday, 15 November.
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Kurigram Farmers Show Growing Interest in Chuijhal Cultivation
Farmers in Kurigram are earning extra income by growing the climbing spice chuijhal on mango and betel nut trees with little care and no fertiliser.