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Map of Cox's Bazar district

Rohingya miscreants abduct five farmers

Rohingya miscreants allegedly abducted five farmers from a hill area in Teknaf demanding ransom

Editorial

Fertilizer crisis and concerns of farmers Take strict measures against hoarders

By expelling a grassroots leader on charges of launching movement for fertilizer in Jamalpur, Awami League wants to deliver a message that none can take to the streets demanding fertilizer. But the ...

Editorial

Fertiliser shortage, high price: Step up supply and surveillance

The government has set up mobile courts to curb any market manipulation or charging farmers inflated prices. But these courts would not be very helpful if the supply of fertiliser is not increased

Farmers block highway demanding fertiliser as per need

Farmers block highway demanding fertiliser as per need

Several hundreds of farmers staged protest on Monday in Jamalpur sadar upazila in demand of ensuring sufficient amount of fertiliser since the period of using fertiliser to Ropa Aman paddy field is ...

Mayarani, a source of inspiration

Good Day Bangladesh Mayarani, a source of inspiration

Following in her footsteps, about five hundred women of the village have engaged in farming while many are rearing cattle at home. People now call it the village of women farmers

Editorial

Increased production cost: Subsidise diesel to save agriculture

The country will survive if agriculture thrives—this is not mere words. During the pandemic, mainly agriculture and export sector kept our economy running

Map of Sherpur district

Farmer killed in wild elephant attack in Sherpur

A 65-year-old farmer was trampled to death by a wild elephant in Nalitabari upazila of Sherpur district on Tuesday

Children stand on a boat lying on the dried-up bed of Iraq's receding southern marshes of Chibayish in Dhi Qar province, on 24 July, 2022.

Iraqi Kurd farmers battle drought as Lake Dukan retreats

Farmers in Iraqi Kurdistan seeking to irrigate crops face seeing their economic lifeline slip away as the waters of Lake Dukan recede and dams upstream in Iran stem the flow.

In this picture taken on 20 June, 2022, Kaleem Ullah Khan, locally known as the ‘Mango Man’, shows how he grafts different varieties of mangoes on a 100-year-old tree at his farm in Malihabad, some 30 kms from Lucknow

India's mango man, father of 300 varieties

One of the earliest varieties he named "Aishwarya" after Bollywood star and 1994 Miss World beauty pageant winner Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. To this day, it remains one of his "best creations"

Wasabi farmer Masahiro Hoshina, 72, looks at seeds of wasabi to check its growth pace in his wasabi field in Okutama town in Tokyo, Japan, May 30, 2022.

Japanese farmers fear for future amid climate change

Wasabi, the tangy Japanese horseradish that's an essential part of sushi and dabbed onto slices of raw fish or into bowls of soba buckwheat noodle soup, is usually grown along streams in narrow ...

A collection of seasonal fruit at Bonrupa Shamataghat in Rangamati town. Farmers have brought boat-full of different types of fruits.

Agricultural initiative Chittagong Hill Tracts is the new fruit hub

44 different types of fruits including mango, banana, jackfruit, papaya, pineapple and oranges are being grown in the three districts of Chittagong Hill Tracts. That is about 15 per cent of the total ...

Three farmers killed as truck overturns in Narsingdi

Three farmers killed as truck overturns in Narsingdi

Three farmers were killed and five pedestrians injured when a covered van overturned after losing control in Mahmudabad area of Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Musapur union parishad of Raipura in Narsingdi ...

Easy access to credit key to boost aquaculture

Roundtable Easy access to credit key to boost aquaculture

Absence of institutional lenders, high dependency on local lenders, lack of financial literacy, and poor farming skills have been identified as key barriers at the farmers’ end

A worker stacks paddy on a boat after harvesting it from a flooded field in Ashulia, outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 17 April 2022

Floods damage Aus on 56,000 hectors: Minister

Agriculture minister Abdur Razzaque said the ongoing flood has damaged Aus on 56,000 hectors of land across the country including 22,000 hectors in Sylhet and Sunamganj

Lightning strike

Kishoreganj farmer killed by lightning strike

Deen Islam, son of Abdul Aowal of the village, was planting paddy on the land near his house when it suddenly started raining and Deen was struck by lightning

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