Crops
Women sow early maize on Teesta chars for Tk 300 to 400 a day
Hatibandha has a 2,290-hectare maize target on the Teesta chars, and women are working in small groups alongside men to plant the crop.
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Women workers
AgribusinessFarm wages fell in June, and women still earned Tk 170 a day less than men
BBS's quarterly farm wage report puts a male farm labourer's June daily wage without meals at Tk 648 and a woman's at Tk 478; women were paid less in every month from March to June.
VegetablesPirojpur's floating beds raise ten million vegetable seedlings a season worth Tk 10 crore
In the waterlogged wetlands of Nazirpur and Nesarabad in Pirojpur, a 200-year-old floating bed method produces about ten million vegetable seedlings a season, sold for about Tk 10 crore; some 6,000 farmers are involved.
Agribusiness
Rotten fallen betel nuts become factory raw material in Kurigram's Rajarhat
Traders in Rajarhat, Kurigram, buy about 50 tonnes a month of dried, rotten betel nuts at Tk 60-100 a kilogram and send them to paint and chemical factories, giving seasonal work to more than a hundred mostly women workers.