CropsFarmers in Manikganj were cutting a bumper aman paddy crop in November 2024 and hoped to repay their debts. The district agriculture office said aman was grown on 31,649 hectares against a target of 35,550 and that 30 per cent had been harvested.
CropsJahurul Islam of Bhatshala village in Nagarpur, Tangail, planted 5,000 Rajshahi sweet betel seedlings on 25 decimals in 2021. In November 2024 he told Jagonews24 he had made Tk 2 lakh profit so far, though storms and rain that year caused about Tk 1.5 lakh of damage.
Farmers in Tangail, hit by heavy rain and floods this year, are busy growing winter vegetables to make up their losses.
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.
What began as a hobby with 30 plants has grown into a 2,000-plant dragon fruit garden in Kurigram that sells fruit worth lakhs of taka a year.
Off-season hybrid watermelon grown on the banks of fish enclosures has again brought farmers in Kalia, Narail, a bumper crop and good prices.
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.
More than a hundred families in Rupganj live by trapping wild kuchia eels that end up exported to Thailand, Hong Kong, China and Japan.
Carrying mangoes to the big Sapahar market in Naogaon has changed the fortunes of van drivers as well as farmers.
FruitsA 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.
A young Nilphamari entrepreneur who bought 10 guppies on a whim during the pandemic now runs an ornamental fish farm worth Tk 4-5 lakh.
A Sitakunda farmer who planted 30 mango varieties on abandoned land at the foot of the hills is making good money this season.
Three friends in Chattogram's Mirsarai have built a mixed fruit orchard on fallow land and expect to sell about Tk 12 lakh of guavas this year.
