Crops
How to Preserve Farmers' Hard-Grown Cauliflower
A step-by-step guide to blanching and freezing winter cauliflower at home so it can be cooked almost all year round.
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Vegetable Farming
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Changing Four Hands, Tk 2 Cauliflower Becomes Tk 15 in Naogaon
A cauliflower that leaves the farmer at Tk 2 in Naogaon reaches shoppers at Tk 15 after changing hands, as farmers accuse a syndicate and officials deny one exists.
Vegetables
Vegetable Prices Crash in Jhalakathi as Home Growing Rises
Growing interest in household vegetable plots after last year's disasters has cut demand in Jhalakathi, leaving commercial growers unable to cover costs.
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What Farmers Should Do to Stop Potato Late Blight
Potato late blight, a fungal disease, can spread through a field within days in cold, foggy weather, and farmers can curb it with clean seed, careful irrigation and timely fungicide sprays.
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Bt Brinjal Cultivation Reduces Pesticide Use: BAU Professor
A Bangladesh Agricultural University plant breeder says genetically modified Bt brinjal resists shoot and fruit borer, reduces pesticide use and needs no special care.
Crops
Shwapno Brings Smiles to Meherpur Farmers Frustrated by Low Vegetable Prices
Supermarket chain Shwapno bought 10,000 cauliflowers from Meherpur farmers who could not recover transport and labour costs as prices fell.
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The Threat and Impact of Cold Waves on Agriculture
As cold and fog intensify, farmers fear cold injury to Boro seedbeds and late blight in potatoes, and agriculture officials set out steps to protect the crops.
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Radish at Tk 1 a Kg, Cauliflower at Tk 2 in Joypurhat
A bumper winter harvest has sent radish prices in Joypurhat down to about Tk 1 a kg and cauliflower to Tk 2 each, leaving farmers unable to cover costs.
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Pesticide Use Highest in Fruit and Vegetables, Says DU Professor
Farmers are ignoring pesticide rules, making fruit and vegetables the most pesticide-laden foods, a Dhaka University nutrition professor told a Bangladesh Food Safety Authority seminar.
Crops
Cauliflower and Bottle Gourd Leaves Bring Smiles for Habib
A Sonargaon farmer expects a profit of about Tk 50,000 from cauliflower and bottle gourd leaves grown on two and a half bigha.
Crops
Road Ploughed Up for Vegetables; Protester Beaten, Jubo League Leader Held
Police in Lakshmipur have detained a Jubo League leader after a Tantidal leader who protested against a char road being ploughed up for crops was allegedly beaten.
Crops
Farmers in Mirsarai Profit from Bottle Gourd
Farmers in Mirsarai upazila of Chattogram are profiting from winter bottle gourd, with prices higher than in other years.
Vegetables
Safe Vegetable Farming Brings Success Within Reach in Pabna
Pabna farmers are replacing chemicals with organic fertiliser and trap-based pest control, cutting costs, and 53,040 farmers have been trained in the methods.