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Farmers Worried About Vegetables in the Heatwave
Days of relentless heat have Chandpur farmers fearing losses to their seasonal vegetables, while the agriculture department promises advice.
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Vegetable Farming
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Shwapno Starts Selling Cucumbers 'Cheaper' Than the Open Market
Retail chain Shwapno says it is buying cucumbers from farmers at fair prices after wholesale rates fell to Tk 2-4 a kg, and selling them below open-market prices.
Vegetables
Three Brothers Succeed With Bottle Gourd in Kaliganj
Three brothers in Kaliganj, Gazipur, have made a success of pesticide-free bottle gourd grown on trellises, and neighbouring farmers are now following them.
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Sharsha Farmers Succeed With Lettuce Cultivation
Farmers in Sharsha upazila of Jashore have had remarkable success growing lettuce, a foreign leaf crop, in parts of Sadar and Ulashi unions this year.
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Mirsarai Farmers Strike It Rich With Sweet Potatoes
Farmers in Mirsarai upazila of Chattogram are profiting from sweet potatoes, grown mostly on sandy chars, with little investment and advice from the upazila agriculture office.
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Cabbage Sells for Tk 5 Each in Birampur
Cabbage is selling for Tk 5 a head at the end of the season in Birampur, Dinajpur, bringing losses for farmers but relief for buyers.
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Bhola's Char Farmers Turn to Capsicum
Farmers on the remote chars of Bhola are switching to capsicum, a low-cost, low-pest crop that has earned some of them Tk 4-5 lakh this season.
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Siddhirganj's Minjar Finds Self-Reliance in Bottle Gourd Farming
Surrounded by new buildings, Minjar Hossain keeps farming bottle gourd on a small plot in Siddhirganj and is enjoying his best harvest in years.
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Bhola Char Farmers Succeed With Trellis Vegetable Farming
Farmers on two isolated chars in Bhola have kept rain, tidal water and salinity off their vegetables this year by growing them on raised trellises.
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Tk 7,000 Invested, Tk 2 Lakh in Sales: Feni Farmer's Khira Success
A Sonagazi farmer who grew khira on one bigha of fallow land on a trial basis sold about Tk 2 lakh worth from an outlay of Tk 7,000.
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Started With Tk 350, Her Garden Now Holds Plants Worth Lakhs
A Government Titumir College student who began gardening with a single Tk 350 plant during the pandemic now has plants worth lakhs of taka.
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Bumper Sweet Pumpkin Harvest Brings Smiles to Faridpur Farmers
Char farmers along the Padma in Faridpur have reaped a bumper sweet pumpkin crop on once-fallow sandy land this year.
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Unable to Sell, Farmers Leave Bottle Gourds at Market in Bagha
With no buyers at Arani municipal haat in Bagha, Rajshahi, bottle gourd farmers took their produce home or left it behind at the market.