Rice prices have remained high in Bangladesh despite ample supply of the grain as farmers harvest the second biggest Aman crop, giving low-income groups a hard time amid persisting economic uncertainty. 

The production of onion has increased by 7 lakh tonnes in 2020-21 fiscal year, about 27 per cent up from the previous year.

The seventh D-8 ministerial meeting on agriculture and food security will begin tomorrow.

Farmers in Pirojpur and Jhalakathi are facing problem to harvest Aman paddy as most of the paddy plants have remained under rainwater.

The good agricultural practices (GAP) policy needs to be implemented quickly to increase the export of agricultural products, Agriculture Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque said today.

The millers have been deceiving consumers by pruning rice to make it attractive, State Minister for Planning Shamsul Alam said today.

Female workers in Lalmonirhat and Kurigram toiling hard on a chatal (paddy husking and drying yard) even braving inclement weather are being subjected to extreme discrimination in wages. 

Mohammad Kamruzzaman of Sujanagar upazila experienced a huge production cost in onion cultivation due to a high price of the seeds last year.

Agricultural mechanisation is happening fast in the country owing to the subsidy provided by the present government, said Agriculture Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaue.

The commercial beekeepers are now hard at work to collect honey from flowers at mustard fields of different regions in Tangail district.

Farmers are making a windfall profit selling early variety of potatoes in different villages of Lalmonirhat and Kurigram.

Scientists at Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) have successfully manufactured a highly suitable and affordable combine rice harvester.

The country’s northwestern region, which emerged as a tea producing zone in recent years, is expected to register record production of tea in 2021 thanks to favourable weather and growing interest among locals seeking to profit from rising internal consumption of tea.

Around 90,000 sharecroppers in Lalmonirhat and Kurigram districts are in a sombre mood despite having an expected yield of Aman paddy as lack of timely rainfall has increased their production cost, farmers said.

Cultivation of Jaaldugi, an early variety of pineapple, has changed the fortune of many farmers in Phulbaria upazila over the last couple of years.

Although sunflower cultivation previously gave the hope of better economic prospects while also delivering healthy edible oil to the common people, farmers are losing interest in the plant for want of a good marketing network.

The Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) and Solidaridad Network Asia signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) today to enhance sustainable and climate-resilient smallholder vegetable production and supply systems.

Spice cultivation has enhanced the incomes of farmers in Nilphamari thanks to their higher yield and elevated prices, helping growers overcome losses they incurred in the previous years by producing traditional crops such as paddy, wheat and jute.

Farmers, who cultivated BARI-2 China variety of orange, in Jhenidah, Chuadanga and Jashore districts are now counting losses due to low prices and less demand in the market.

Bangladesh is now full of food from the bottomless basket and no one is starving here now. This is the biggest achievement in 50 years of the country’s victory, said Agriculture Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque.