Landless, small and marginal farmers as well as share-croppers in Bangladesh could be given loans up to Tk 2 lakh without any collateral under the central bank’s Tk 1,000 crore refinance scheme aimed at boosting wheat and maize production.

The government is trying to make an all-out effort to ensure a good Aman harvest, ensuring uninterrupted electricity supply to farmers for irrigation as it looks to ensure food security amid global economic uncertainty.

Several hundred farmers blocked a road in Kaharol upazila town for one and a half hours yesterday in protest of not getting their required fertiliser from a government-enlisted dealer.

High cost of irrigation has delt a severe blow to Aman farmers of Pabna region in this unusually dry rainy season.

Despite being delicious, pineapples grown in Tangail’s Madhupur upazila have grabbed media headlines for all the wrong reasons in the last few years.

The government move to increase the price of diesel by a high margin has caught many farmers off guard. 

The government should continue giving subsidies to the agriculture sector to ensure food security and shun imports, economists said today.

Tea refiners in Moulvibazar, the largest tea producing district of Bangladesh, are worried about being able to achieve this year’s collective production target of 10 crore kilogrammes as the recent load-shedding has thrown a spanner in the works, according to market players.

The government has raised the price of urea fertiliser for the first time in 11 years, burdening the farmers with an increased production cost.

The government has increased the price of urea fertiliser by Tk 6 per kg, due to the hike in prices in the international market.

The food ministry has extended the deadline for private firms to open letters of credit (LCs) for importing rice until August 21 this year.

Unlike previous years, guava farmers in four unions of the Pirojpur and Jhalakathi upazilas are unconcerned about getting the expected prices for their produce as the time needed to make shipments has decreased substantially thanks to the opening of Padma Bridge.

Bangladesh may bag lower rice output this season, which begins with Boro paddy in winter, as heavy rainfall and flash floods in June have damaged the Aush crops to be harvested next month, according to a recent forecast by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Farming means everything to Habibul Bahar Sujan. The successful young man wanted to be a farmer since his childhood. But success does not always come easily. People have to be skilled to be successful.

Farmers who depend on rainwaters to grow Aman paddy in Dinajpur have been left distraught from early July owing to a drought-like situation in the absence of rains. 

The government today honoured 13 persons with the status of Agricultural Important Person (AIP) for their outstanding contribution to the farm sector in Bangladesh.

The government has announced honouring 13 people with the ‘Agricultural Important Person’ or AIP status for their outstanding contribution to the agricultural sector.

Bumper onion yields earlier this year gave farmers in northern parts of Bangladesh reason to cheer but the lack of adequate storage facilities has soured their prospects of profiting from the cash-crop as adverse weather conditions continue to wreak havoc on their produce, according to market players.

In April this year, I had the opportunity to visit the Netherlands, a country much advanced in agricultural technology.

Farmers in Shahbajpur village of Jashore sadar upazila are overjoyed to be producing export quality vegetables but they are disappointed that the produce is selling at home instead of abroad at the same time.