EAM Asaduzzaman

Amidst substantial amounts of potato production and subsequent space constraints in cold storages, a new method of stowing the spuds that does not require freezing has come as a blessing for farmers in the country’s northern districts.

Around 102 factories in greater Rangpur, including 28 at the Uttara EPZ in Nilphamari, will likely get gas connections by December 2023 as the “Construction of Bogura-Rangpur-Saidpur Gas Transmission Pipeline Project” should be complete by then.

The collaborators of the occupation army killed 200 innocent Bangalees at the directive of the Pakistan army just there. Of the 200, 100 were killed on April 12.

The Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) has taken the initiative to expand soybean cultivation in northern Bangladesh in order to meet the country’s growing demand for edible oil.

The jute industry in Rangpur is facing collapse as four small mills in the region have shut down while others may follow suit at any time after being compelled to shrink production due to multiple issues.

The government has initiated a move to transform the growers’ markets in Rangpur into hubs for small agro entrepreneurs since they have been lying idle for more than a decade owing largely to farmers and wholesalers’ lack of interest and a propaganda carried out by a vested group.

Within one and a half years into the dredging of the Charalkata river, the riverbed has filled up again at different points as sand and earth kept on the banks of the river got deposited to the riverbed in the rainy season.

While rain can be a blessing in providing life-sustaining water, recent showers have turned into the bane of many brick manufacturers’ lives for their use of traditional kilns.

A poor man has set an example of magnanimity voluntarily guarding an unmanned rail crossing defying the bone-chilling cold and dense fog at the daybreak to caution Uttara EPZ workers about approaching trains, who are in a mad rush to reach factories in time.

The incidents of throwing stones on moving trains in the West Zone (WZ) of Bangladesh Railway (BR) have been continuing unabatedly despite a campaign by BR to raise awareness.

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.

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.

The words “Nazi forces” bring back memories of the horror unleashed at their concentration camps. What the Pakistani forces and their Bihari cohorts did at the Saidpur Railway Workshop in 1971 was as grisly as those events of World War II.

Tourism  in Rangpur’s Nilphamari could be a boon for the national economy as the  district has glorious historical and natural sites to see, including  some related to the Liberation War.

Bangladesh is trying out cultivation of a plant which various Asian regions consider a handy source of ingredients essential to health.

Although Aman paddy farmers are harvesting the crop in full swing, the government is yet to make good on its promise to buy the kitchen staple through a national procurement drive that began earlier this month.

Trade between Bangladesh and India through the Haldibari-Chilahati rail link resumed on August 1 after a 56-year hiatus but infrastructure of Chilahati rail station in Nilphamari district has remained inadequate.

Thirty-two-year-old Zakaria Hossain, a resident of Dakkhin Sonakhuli village in Nilphamari’s Dimla upazila, was not born blind.

Farmers in Nilphamari district of Rangpur division began harvesting their early-flowering aman paddy halfway through September, bringing a sense of festivity to the area.

Farmers in Nilphamari district are cultivating a fast-growing variety of potato in order to maximise their profits before the year ends.