Cooking
Four festive desserts with no added sugar, from date sandesh to sweet potato halwa
Dates, nuts, oats and sweet potato make four home desserts with no added sugar; people with diabetes still need to watch the portion.
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Sweet Potato
CookingHow to make street-style sweet potato fries at home, with safe frying tips
A recipe from Jagonews24's lifestyle desk, published on 12 January 2026, turns sweet potatoes into crisp fries: the strips are parboiled with salt and vinegar, dried on a cloth and fried golden on a medium flame.
VegetablesSweet Potato Cultivation in Bangladesh: BARI Varieties, Planting, Fertiliser and Storage
Bangladesh's average sweet potato yield was about 10.50 tonnes a hectare, while BARI varieties gave close to 40 tonnes in trials. Here is how to choose a variety, plant vines, fertilise, fight weevils and store the crop.
Agribusiness
Sweet potato processing factory set up in Panchagarh, Tk 200 crore exports a year hoped for
A factory in Debiganj, Panchagarh, will process sweet potatoes into chips, powder and paste for export, with annual exports of about Tk 200 crore hoped for.
Crops
Dumuria Farmers Succeed With Sweet Potatoes
Farmers in Dumuria upazila of Khulna are pleased with their first sweet potato harvest under the tuber crop development project, on land that used to lie fallow after Aman.