The farmers, who are reaping a bumper harvest this Boro season, say they will suffer losses if the government does not increase the procurement price for their produce.

The upazila administration and agriculture department have asked farmers to quickly harvest boro rice in the Kawadighi Haor area of Rajnagar upazila of Moulvibazar as there are possibilities of sudden thunderstorms and hailstorms in the area

Crisis of hired farm labourers is hampering Boro harvest in many areas of the district.

Seventy percent of the Boro paddy in haor areas have been harvested, the agriculture ministry has said. .In Sylhet, 55 percent paddy, in Moulvibazar 70 percent, in Habiganj 67 percent, in Sunamganj 73 percent, in Kishoreganj 58 percent, in Netrokona 77 percent, and in Brahmanbaria 67 perce

Every year, a festive mood prevails in the hoar regions at this time as farmers get busy harvesting and threshing their Boro crops. But not this year.

Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzaque yesterday said he is expecting a record production of Boro this year, as there were no early floods or any other serious challenges.

Agriculture Minister M Abdur Razzaque today said 35 percent of the paddy produced in the hoars has been harvested so far.

The government has decided to buy 16.5 lakh tonnes of Boro rice and paddy in a four-month drive beginning next month.

The government has increased fertiliser prices by Tk 5 per kg just a week after the National Coordination and Advisory Committee on Fertiliser announced it has no plan to hike the prices for the sake of agriculture production.

A farmer has tried to take his life by taking pesticide after failing to get irrigation water for his paddy field in Rajshahi’s Godagari upazila.

Dealers and farmers will have to pay an additional Tk 5 per kg for fertilisers as the government has increased the prices of urea, DAP, TSP and MOP fertilisers

Boro paddies grown by a large number of farmers in Bagerhat have been ruined after some politically influential locals released saline water into the fields for the sake of shrimp farming.

AB Bank disburses Tk 1 lakh each as loan to 1,500 farmers in Madhupur, Dhanbari

The agriculture ministry is planning to take up a Tk 7,214 crore project to promote crop diversification and ensure food safety, aiming to gradually reduce the country’s dependency on imports. 

Mauritania has welcomed “contract farming” proposal from Bangladesh government to open arable land for Bangladeshi entrepreneurs..The initiative to leave large arable land to private sector by April will open a potential opportunity for Bangladeshi entrepreneurs and businessmen, said Yahya

Industries Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun says

Following four consecutive days of rainfall, watermelon fields in Barguna's Amtali upazila have been inundated and farmers are worried that their fruits will be ruined

The price of broiler chicken has started falling at the retail level in Bangladesh as four major poultry companies are now selling the meat for a maximum of Tk 195 per kg directly from their farms

However, households are shifting to palm oil from soybean for high prices

Many Bagerhat farmers are now making vermicompost and using it in place of chemical fertilisers. It is quickly becoming the choice of fertiliser in the district