Cauliflower Curd Rot: Causes and Remedies
Curd rot can destroy a cauliflower crop, and farmers are advised to act now with clean seed, seed treatment, crop rotation and timely fungicide sprays.
Curd rot can destroy a cauliflower crop, and farmers are advised to act now with clean seed, seed treatment, crop rotation and timely fungicide sprays.
Early khira cucumber growing is spreading across Mirsarai in Chattogram as farmers earn good prices from harvests that reach the market ahead of the season.
Seedling growers in Samespur village of Burichang, Cumilla, famous for half a century, are racing to recover flood losses as demand for their plants stays high.
Potato farmers in Joypurhat say traders have created an artificial shortage of seed potatoes and are selling them far above the fixed price.
Vegetables rise by Tk 30-40 a kg between Tarakandi wholesale market and Kishoreganj town, leaving farmers short-changed while middlemen profit.
Pabna farmer Anisur Rahman has succeeded in raising disease-free seedlings in a polynet house, and DAE says the method gives 20 percent higher yields with far fewer pest attacks.
Farmers in Jamalpur, hoping to recover losses from this year's rain and floods, have so far planted winter vegetables on 11,970 hectares.
CropsIn November 2024 farmers on the hills of Sitakunda in Chattogram were earning well from summer Rupban beans. The upazila agriculture department said about 300 farmers grew the crop on 30 hectares that year.
A bumper crop of early cauliflower in flood-free Lalmonirhat is fetching farmers good prices and being sent to Dhaka and other districts.
CropsIn early November 2024 farmers in Thakurgaon were planting early potatoes on land cleared of aman rice, taking on much higher seed, fertiliser and irrigation costs in the hope that prices would stay as good as in the two previous seasons.
Satkhira farmers have had to replant winter vegetables at double the cost after rain and waterlogging rotted their early seedlings, putting them behind the season.
Encouraged by good prices last year, farmers across Kurigram, including on the river chars, are busy planting potatoes on a target of 7,100 hectares.
Young entrepreneurs are leading a shift to early winter vegetables in Chattogram, where vegetable output has nearly doubled in a decade.