CookingHow to make pumpkin pie at home: ingredients and method
A crust of flour and butter, a filling of boiled pumpkin, eggs, milk, cinnamon and nutmeg, and 40-50 minutes in an oven at 180C make a pumpkin pie.
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VegetablesBARI scientists breed a year-round hybrid sweet pumpkin with thicker flesh
After five years of work at its Lebukhali station in Patuakhali, BARI has bred a hybrid sweet pumpkin with thick flesh, a small seed cavity and an average weight of about 4.5 kg; it has been proposed to the agriculture ministry as BARI Hybrid Sweet Pumpkin 4.
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Off-season 'Behula' pumpkin on 26 bighas earns a Chapainawabganj farmer Tk 920,000 so far
Manajir Rahman Mamun of Gomostapur, Chapainawabganj, grew the 'Behula' sweet pumpkin on 26 bighas through summer and the monsoon and has already sold Tk 920,000 worth against costs of about Tk 500,000.
VegetablesShirin Akter, the 'pumpkin queen' of Bogura's Mahasthan vegetable market
Shirin Akter, who returned to her father's home with two children in 2003, built a wholesale pumpkin trade at Mahasthanhat in Bogura that ships 5 to 8 tonnes a day in the season.
VegetablesManikganj sweet pumpkin farmers report losses despite good prices
Sweet pumpkin growers in Ghior, Manikganj, said in April 2026 that yields had fallen from 3-4 tonnes a bigha to 1-2 tonnes and fruit was rotting, so good prices could not cover their costs; the DAE said district output beat its target and farmers were profiting.
CookingPumpkin Flower Bhorta: A Simple Bengali Recipe with Mustard Oil and Panch Phoron
On 18 January 2026, Jagonews24's lifestyle desk published a village-style recipe for pumpkin flower bhorta: cleaned flowers boiled in lightly salted water, then mashed with onion, green chilli, coriander leaves and mustard oil, and finished with a tempering of black cumin or panch phoron.
CropsBumper Sweet Pumpkin Crop on Teesta Sandbars, but Lower Prices for Lalmonirhat Farmers
In May 2025 farmers on the Teesta chars of Lalmonirhat, where sweet pumpkin was grown on 1,320 hectares, were pleased with a bumper harvest, but prices below the previous year's and poor marketing held back their profits.
VegetablesKishoreganj haor farmers grow more sweet pumpkin but get Tk 6 to 10 a kg
Sweet pumpkin in Kishoreganj grew from 1,005 to 1,216 hectares in the 2024-25 season, but haor farmers said in early March 2025 that low yields and higher costs met field prices of Tk 6 to 10 a kg. Traders blamed heavy supply.
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Abdul Rashid Becomes a Crorepati Growing Sweet Pumpkin
A former day labourer in Netrokona's Durgapur upazila has become a crorepati by growing hybrid sweet pumpkin, onion and garlic on the Someshwari river char.