Rangpur region: Sugarcane cultivation shrinks by 97pc in 5yrs
24 January 2026, 02:59 AM
Russia gifts 30,000 tonnes of fertiliser to Bangladesh
19 January 2026, 15:48 PM
Business
Bangladesh’s farm success comes at a cost: Prof Anu Muhammad
18 January 2026, 18:15 PM
Business
Govt suspends vannamei post-larvae import approvals
15 January 2026, 18:08 PM
Business
Farmers urged to protect crops, livestock against ongoing cold wave
7 January 2026, 09:41 AM
Business
No crisis in quality jute seeds this season: adviser
4 January 2026, 13:15 PM
Business
Potato Paradox: Just another curry on the rice plate? This will not solve the price problem
27 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Business
Govt to buy 50,000 tonnes of rice each from India, Pakistan
23 December 2025, 15:11 PM
Business
Farmers of early varieties of potato hit by old stock glut
20 December 2025, 18:41 PM
Business
Farmers struggle to buy non-urea fertilisers at govt rates
17 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Agriculture
The ‘Aziz Company’
I have always said, “Before investing in agriculture, one must know where and why he is investing.” Without foreseeing the success or challenges there is always a risk ahead.
27 January 2022, 18:00 PM
Rice farmers delighted at Kataribhog’s price hike
Farmers in Dinajpur who cultivate aromatic Kataribhog rice are now delighted at prices having substantially increased recently as demand has gone up.
24 January 2022, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh to host FAO Asia-Pacific regional conference for the 1st time on Mar 8-11
Bangladesh will host the 36th Regional Conference -- for Asia and the Pacific -- of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), for the first time since it joined the organisation in 1973.
24 January 2022, 07:33 AM
Shrinking farmland to endanger food security
Non-agricultural use of land especially for the development purpose has recently seen a sharp increase in Sylhet division. By filling croplands, houses, roads, buildings and business establishments are being built in an unplanned manner.
22 January 2022, 18:00 PM
Price spike to raise maize acreage
Maize is being traded for as much as Tk 30 per kilogramme (kg), the highest on record in Bangladesh, influenced by high international prices, a development that has created interest among many growers to expand cultivation of the grain, a key ingredient for poultry, cattle and fish feed.
22 January 2022, 18:00 PM
Levee repair delay leaves farmers edgy
Hundreds of farmers in Sunamganj are in fear of losing their Boro paddy to floods as the authorities concerned are delaying the repair of levees.
21 January 2022, 18:00 PM
Boro cultivation on 4,000 hectares uncertain
Cultivation of Boro on about 4,000 hectares of land in the current season seems uncertain due to permanent waterlogging along the Bhabadaha region in Jashore’s Monirampur upazila.
19 January 2022, 18:00 PM
10 new high-yielding paddy varieties released
Ten new varieties of high-yielding paddy, including zinc-enriched crop, have been registered and released for cultivation in the next Boro season.
18 January 2022, 13:54 PM
Siddique shines in sour plum
Siddique Hossain’s success did not come overnight. The young man from Tikuria Chala village in Sakhipur upazila has given his all-out effort to achieve it.
16 January 2022, 18:00 PM
Founder of Barendra Seed Bank Yusuf Mollah no more
Yusuf Mollah, the farmer from Rajshahi who founded Barendra Seed Bank to conserve rare and traditional varieties of paddy, died this morning.
14 January 2022, 07:22 AM
D-8 to develop climate-smart agricultural technology
The member countries of D-8, an alliance of eight developing countries, have agreed to Bangladesh's proposal to take up a 'multinational integrated project' for the development of climate-smart agricultural technology.
13 January 2022, 13:11 PM
Rice price high despite new crop, ample imports
Rice prices have remained high in Bangladesh despite ample supply of the grain as farmers harvest the second biggest Aman crop, giving low-income groups a hard time amid persisting economic uncertainty.
11 January 2022, 18:00 PM
D-8 ministerial meeting on food security tomorrow
The seventh D-8 ministerial meeting on agriculture and food security will begin tomorrow.
11 January 2022, 11:35 AM
Aman harvest faces water stagnation problem
Farmers in Pirojpur and Jhalakathi are facing problem to harvest Aman paddy as most of the paddy plants have remained under rainwater.
10 January 2022, 18:00 PM
Policy for good agricultural practices needs to be executed: Razzaque
The good agricultural practices (GAP) policy needs to be implemented quickly to increase the export of agricultural products, Agriculture Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque said today.
9 January 2022, 10:40 AM
Millers trim rice to make it attractive: state minister
The millers have been deceiving consumers by pruning rice to make it attractive, State Minister for Planning Shamsul Alam said today.
8 January 2022, 13:44 PM
Women get less than half of what men get
Female workers in Lalmonirhat and Kurigram toiling hard on a chatal (paddy husking and drying yard) even braving inclement weather are being subjected to extreme discrimination in wages.
6 January 2022, 18:00 PM
Pabna farmers eye bumper yield
Mohammad Kamruzzaman of Sujanagar upazila experienced a huge production cost in onion cultivation due to a high price of the seeds last year.
6 January 2022, 18:00 PM
Subsidy boosting mechanisation in agriculture: Razzaque
Agricultural mechanisation is happening fast in the country owing to the subsidy provided by the present government, said Agriculture Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaue.
6 January 2022, 13:20 PM
Beekeepers welcome a sweet yield
The commercial beekeepers are now hard at work to collect honey from flowers at mustard fields of different regions in Tangail district.
5 January 2022, 18:00 PM