Bumper Cauliflower Yield Brings Smiles to Chuadanga Farmers
A bumper cauliflower crop and good prices are letting Chuadanga farmers earn Tk 50,000-70,000 a bigha in profit and recover last year's losses.
A bumper cauliflower crop and good prices are letting Chuadanga farmers earn Tk 50,000-70,000 a bigha in profit and recover last year's losses.
Favourable weather has brought a bumper winter vegetable crop in Magura, filling local markets, though prices remain somewhat high for now.
A college professor in Barishal's Babuganj upazila has built a papaya orchard with a fish pond that he says earns him Tk 10 lakh a year after costs.
CropsCumilla's Department of Agricultural Extension expected Tk 20 to 22 crore worth of vegetable seedlings to be sold in the 2025 season, with more than 700 farmers raising seedlings on about 20 hectares around the village of Samespur.
Sonargaon farmer Abu Taher switched to papaya this year in hope of higher profit and is now enjoying the yield he hoped for.
After all its HSC candidates failed, a Raipura college ploughed its playing field to grow vegetables, then dropped the plan once the media reported it.
Rafiqul Islam of Kushkhali village in Magura's Shalikha upazila is hoping for a good return this year from lotikochu grown on 73 decimals of land.
Early winter vegetables have reached the market in Naogaon, and after starting high their prices have begun to fall within a week.
In Magura, villagers such as Zaheda Begum are earning extra money by picking male pumpkin flowers from their yards and selling them in town.
Farmer Asit Basu has started mushroom farming in Narail for the first time and now sells about 100kg of oyster mushrooms a month.
CropsIn October 2025 farmers and homemakers on the chars of Gaibandha were growing ginger, turmeric, gourds and aubergine in soil-filled sacks on raised platforms, a method promoted by the district DAE with SKS Foundation so that flood water cannot reach the crops.
Blossom end rot is a common problem for summer and early winter tomato growers, and fungicide sprays will not cure it.
Agriculturist Ibad Ali of Jashore has developed "root technology", which uses shallow beds matched to root needs to grow up to ten times more vegetables on a rooftop.