Kongkon Karmaker

The state-owned rock producer Maddhapara Granite Mining Company (MGMCL) is slowly coming back to life as it now produces 5,000 tonnes of rock per day.

Production of wheat and maize seeds at Bangladesh Wheat and Maize Research Institute (BWMRI) in Dinajpur is likely to fall drastically this year.

Olivia Hembrom, 33, was left wanting for food and work in March when coronavirus and a nationwide shutdown hit Bangladesh.

Scientists at Bangladesh Wheat and Maize Research Institute (BWMRI) in Dinajpur have not got any promotion in the last 17 years although they have been playing a significate role to take advance the wheat farming in the country since long.

Scientists at Bangladesh Wheat and Maize Research Institute (BWMRI) in Dinajpur have developed two new wheat varieties with built-in blast disease tolerance. The blast tolerant varieties will raise hope of the farmers across the country.

The intimidating atmosphere in their areas, disputes with local ruling party men, and on top of this, brutal attacks on two UNOs over the years have given rise to a sense of unease among government officials working in Dinajpur.

The number of Covid-19 patients is increasing alarmingly in Rangpur city, as the residents are not aware enough of using masks and maintaining social distance.

Mandatory use of face masks and social distancing have kept the number of Covid-19 cases low in Dinajpur’s Hakimpur upazila, compared to the district’s 12 other upazilas, local officials say.

A large portion of the peanut fields in the raised sandy basin of the Teesta river in three upazilas of Rangpur has been flooded due to the sudden rise of water level, only a few days before the usual harvesting time.

While humans are trying to fight the deadly novel coronavirus across the globe, cattle in the country’s northern districts, under Rangpur division, are getting infected at an alarming pace by another highly contagious virus -- lumpy skin disease (LSD).

Litchi is selling for good prices after it hit the market a week ago, much to the happiness of growers and traders who had earlier feared price fall of the popular summer fruit amid the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic.

For the last one month, sugarcane farmer Abdul Salam has not received a penny from the state-owned Mobarakganj Sugar Mill in Jhenaidah district’s Kaliganj upazila.

“I’ve got to do something for my country -- that’s all I could think of. I have to free my country from Pakistan,” Kina Kora reminisced about how he felt when the Pakistani occupation army cracked down on unarmed Bangladeshis in the dark night of March 25 in 1971.

With Indian onion starting to reenter Bangladesh after a six-month export ban, two government wings are up for discouraging the arrival of the tuber to protect local growers from price slumps amidst ongoing harvests.

Onion prices have slumped amid increasing supply and fears of flooding of the bulb after India decided to lift the ban on export -- a development that has provided relief to consumers but raised concerns for farmers.

At only 19, Rana Babu had migrated to Oman in 2017 with high hopes of making a decent living there and gradually helping his family come out of the clutches of poverty.

Farmers of Kashimpur village in Birganj upazila of Dinajpur formed a human chain on the dried up bed of the Atrai river yesterday demanding that the authorities postpone leaving the dredged mud there till harvest of the crops cultivated there.

Refueling stations in nine districts of the country’s northern region are not getting required quantity of diesel as current supply is no match for additional high demand for irrigation.

Kidney dialysis at the nephrology department of Rangpur Medical College Hospital remained suspended for four days until yesterday as its water treatment plant is not working due to a technical glitch.

At least 1,000 acres of arable land in Doulatpur union under Dinajpur’s Phulbari upazila has remained unused for the last two years due to waterlogging as influential people blocked the passage of eight culverts after digging ponds for fish farming in the adjacent spots.