Farmers are expanding cultivation of hybrid rice to reap benefits of higher yield than inbred varieties and profit from sale of the staple food.

The government is preparing a roadmap to increase rice production in the next two years, as the country is still struggling to contain the staple food’s price despite achieving record production, Agriculture Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque said today.

This was supposed to be their time of the year. There’s Pahela Falgun, then there’s Valentine’s Day, both occasions where people buy flowers to give to their loved ones.

Boro cultivation in going on in full swing in all the upazilas of the district.

The government will need Tk 28,000 crore in subsidies for fertiliser in the current fiscal year due to an unusual rise in its price in the international market, Agriculture Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque said today.

I have always said, “Before investing in agriculture, one must know where and why he is investing.” Without foreseeing the success or challenges there is always a risk ahead.

Bangladesh has sought advanced technological support from Denmark for processing agricultural products and increasing export.

Farmers in Dinajpur who cultivate aromatic Kataribhog rice are now delighted at prices having substantially increased recently as demand has gone up.

Bangladesh will host the 36th Regional Conference -- for Asia and the Pacific -- of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), for the first time since it joined the organisation in 1973.

Non-agricultural use of land especially for the development purpose has recently seen a sharp increase in Sylhet division. By filling croplands, houses, roads, buildings and business establishments are being built in an unplanned manner.

Maize is being traded for as much as Tk 30 per kilogramme (kg), the highest on record in Bangladesh, influenced by high international prices, a development that has created interest among many growers to expand cultivation of the grain, a key ingredient for poultry, cattle and fish feed.

Hundreds of farmers in Sunamganj are in fear of losing their Boro paddy to floods as the authorities concerned are delaying the repair of levees.

Cultivation of Boro on about 4,000 hectares of land in the current season seems uncertain due to permanent waterlogging along the Bhabadaha region in Jashore’s Monirampur upazila.

Amid a sharp rise in the price of rice, Agriculture Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque today said the price of the staple food grain will be stabilised soon.

Ten new varieties of high-yielding paddy, including zinc-enriched crop, have been registered and released for cultivation in the next Boro season.

Siddique Hossain’s success did not come overnight. The young man from Tikuria Chala village in Sakhipur upazila has given his all-out effort to achieve it.

Yusuf Mollah, the farmer from Rajshahi who founded Barendra Seed Bank to conserve rare and traditional varieties of paddy, died this morning.

The combination of experience and the spirit of youth could become good partners, whether in building society or running any organization. I have seen many successful examples built with this combination.

The member countries of D-8, an alliance of eight developing countries, have agreed to Bangladesh's proposal to take up a 'multinational integrated project' for the development of climate-smart agricultural technology.

The two-day D-8 ministerial meeting on agriculture and food security began in Dhaka today.