Patuakhali Farmers Happy With Potatoes Grown Without Tilling
Farmers in Kalapara, Patuakhali, have succeeded in growing potatoes without ploughing their land, a method that saves money, fertiliser and irrigation.
Farmers in Kalapara, Patuakhali, have succeeded in growing potatoes without ploughing their land, a method that saves money, fertiliser and irrigation.
Khulna University agrotechnology student Md. Sohel Rana has grown coloured capsicum successfully in low light using mulching sheets, harvesting 700 to 900 grams per plant.
Vegetable farmers selling at Rajshahi's Khorkhori wholesale market are denied fair prices while middlemen take the bulk of the profit as the same produce sells for much more in city markets.
Samsul Haque, a farmer in Muradnagar, Cumilla, has grown broccoli commercially on 55 decimals after a successful trial, and hopes to profit by more than a lakh taka.
Favourable weather has brought a bumper early snake gourd crop to the chars of Bhola, with farmers getting good prices.
New-season drumsticks are selling at up to Tk 400 a kg in Khulna after rain and wind cut the crop.
The Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation has trialled 20 new potato varieties suited to export and industry in Kushtia, with yields about double conventional varieties.
The three-day National Vegetable Fair 2022 at the Krishibid Institution Bangladesh in Farmgate has ended with sales of about Tk 31.47 lakh.
Visitors crowded the National Vegetable Fair 2022 at the KIB grounds in Khamarbari, buying safe vegetables and studying model gardens.
The sixth National Vegetable Fair opens at the KIB grounds in Dhaka's Farmgate today and runs until 2 March.
The agriculture secretary blamed middlemen for high vegetable prices, citing a gap between Tk 10-20 a kg in Gaibandha and Tk 60-70 in Dhaka.
The agriculture ministry is holding the sixth National Vegetable Fair in Dhaka from Monday to 2 March.
Khira farmers in Chalan Beel, Sirajganj, are making good profits from a bumper harvest and higher prices, with about 50 tonnes a day going to Dhaka.