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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Homestead farming has turned out to be a good source of food security and nutrition among women, particularly the young and middle-aged ones who live in areas where livelihood is uncertain, found a study.

Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder today urged people to eat red rice instead of white.

A farmer has found success in commercial cultivation of Tween fruit, commonly known as fig, in Kaliganj upazila of Jhenidah.

Farmers in different districts are buying fertiliser at prices higher than those set by the government even though the authorities insist there is no crisis in the country.

Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger dubbed Bangladesh as a bottomless basket when the country achieved independence from Pakistan.

If people visit Reju Khal, a hill stream that flows through the southern part of Cox’s Bazar district and into the Bay of Bengal, they would see long queues of bamboo poles along the waterway.

Farmers are expecting bumper production of maize cultivated on the dried-up Teesta riverbed and char lands in Lalmonirhat district this season.

The government will conduct mobile court to thwart any rumour of fertiliser crisis in the country, Agriculture Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque said today.

A regional office of the Global Institute for Food Security (GIFS), a research organisation of Canadian Saskatchewan University, has been opened in Dhaka to help agricultural researchers in the country to gain advanced knowledge and skills.

An early potato harvest has brought fortune to the farmers in Nilphamari district as traders are paying exceptionally high prices for the kitchen staple amid increased demand in the country’s major cities.

Saarc countries need to work together to innovate crop varieties and production technologies and exchange them to tackle hidden hunger in the region, said Agriculture Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque.

Massive attack of cut worms, known as katui poka, on mustard plants in different upazilas of the district worries thousands of farmers as use of pesticides fails to prevent or check the trouble.