DAE asks farmers to harvest 80% ripe paddy, mature mango and crops

Boro cultivation has brought smiles to a good number of farmers at many coastal villages in Barguna, with a bumper yield of the paddy this season.

Urea production at Jamuna Fertilizer Company Ltd (JFCL) at Tarakandi in Jamalpur district today halted due to a technical issue

Harvesting of the current season’s mango is going to start from today in Rajshahi.

The 16-year-old schoolboy from Faridpur Sadar upazila now earns at least Tk 80,000 per month through fish farming.

The farmers, who are reaping a bumper harvest this Boro season, say they will suffer losses if the government does not increase the procurement price for their produce.

The upazila administration and agriculture department have asked farmers to quickly harvest boro rice in the Kawadighi Haor area of Rajnagar upazila of Moulvibazar as there are possibilities of sudden thunderstorms and hailstorms in the area

Crisis of hired farm labourers is hampering Boro harvest in many areas of the district.

Seventy percent of the Boro paddy in haor areas have been harvested, the agriculture ministry has said. .In Sylhet, 55 percent paddy, in Moulvibazar 70 percent, in Habiganj 67 percent, in Sunamganj 73 percent, in Kishoreganj 58 percent, in Netrokona 77 percent, and in Brahmanbaria 67 perce

Every year, a festive mood prevails in the hoar regions at this time as farmers get busy harvesting and threshing their Boro crops. But not this year.

Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzaque yesterday said he is expecting a record production of Boro this year, as there were no early floods or any other serious challenges.

Agriculture Minister M Abdur Razzaque today said 35 percent of the paddy produced in the hoars has been harvested so far.

The government has decided to buy 16.5 lakh tonnes of Boro rice and paddy in a four-month drive beginning next month.

The government has increased fertiliser prices by Tk 5 per kg just a week after the National Coordination and Advisory Committee on Fertiliser announced it has no plan to hike the prices for the sake of agriculture production.

A farmer has tried to take his life by taking pesticide after failing to get irrigation water for his paddy field in Rajshahi’s Godagari upazila.

Dealers and farmers will have to pay an additional Tk 5 per kg for fertilisers as the government has increased the prices of urea, DAP, TSP and MOP fertilisers

Boro paddies grown by a large number of farmers in Bagerhat have been ruined after some politically influential locals released saline water into the fields for the sake of shrimp farming.

AB Bank disburses Tk 1 lakh each as loan to 1,500 farmers in Madhupur, Dhanbari

The agriculture ministry is planning to take up a Tk 7,214 crore project to promote crop diversification and ensure food safety, aiming to gradually reduce the country’s dependency on imports. 

Mauritania has welcomed “contract farming” proposal from Bangladesh government to open arable land for Bangladeshi entrepreneurs..The initiative to leave large arable land to private sector by April will open a potential opportunity for Bangladeshi entrepreneurs and businessmen, said Yahya