The government would consider giving diesel to farmers at subsidised prices,Agriculture Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque said yesterday.

Boro cultivation does not deplete groundwater as it requires only 661 litres of water, according to a study.

Samples of TSP fertilizer from a state-owned fertilizer factory in Chattogram showed signs of adulteration after being tested.

Due to minimal rainfall, cultivation of Aman paddy in Chattogram has witnessed a setback.

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) reduced import tariff on rice further by 10 percentage points to over 15 per cent to facilitate imports of the staple grains and contain its prices in the domestic market.

Sugarcane production and acreages in Bangladesh have more than halved in the last two decades as farmers find it difficult to generate a steady stream of profit from the crop, official figures showed.  

A government project undertaken to supply drinking water to locals in Gaibandha’s Gobindganj by re-excavating ponds has been rendered fruitless, with the zila parishad leasing out many of the waterbodies for fish farming.

Nowadays, there are thousands of successful women farmers across the country and many of them have become entrepreneurs and created employment opportunities for both men and women. Johora Akhter is one such innovative woman farmer.

Landless, small and marginal farmers as well as share-croppers in Bangladesh could be given loans up to Tk 2 lakh without any collateral under the central bank’s Tk 1,000 crore refinance scheme aimed at boosting wheat and maize production.

The government is trying to make an all-out effort to ensure a good Aman harvest, ensuring uninterrupted electricity supply to farmers for irrigation as it looks to ensure food security amid global economic uncertainty.

Several hundred farmers blocked a road in Kaharol upazila town for one and a half hours yesterday in protest of not getting their required fertiliser from a government-enlisted dealer.

High cost of irrigation has delt a severe blow to Aman farmers of Pabna region in this unusually dry rainy season.

Despite being delicious, pineapples grown in Tangail’s Madhupur upazila have grabbed media headlines for all the wrong reasons in the last few years.

The government move to increase the price of diesel by a high margin has caught many farmers off guard. 

The government should continue giving subsidies to the agriculture sector to ensure food security and shun imports, economists said today.

Tea refiners in Moulvibazar, the largest tea producing district of Bangladesh, are worried about being able to achieve this year’s collective production target of 10 crore kilogrammes as the recent load-shedding has thrown a spanner in the works, according to market players.

The government has raised the price of urea fertiliser for the first time in 11 years, burdening the farmers with an increased production cost.

The government has increased the price of urea fertiliser by Tk 6 per kg, due to the hike in prices in the international market.

The food ministry has extended the deadline for private firms to open letters of credit (LCs) for importing rice until August 21 this year.

Unlike previous years, guava farmers in four unions of the Pirojpur and Jhalakathi upazilas are unconcerned about getting the expected prices for their produce as the time needed to make shipments has decreased substantially thanks to the opening of Padma Bridge.