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-- 2020-12-29 20:05:48
Grassroots farmers in Rajshahi are being delighted because they are getting good yield and the lucrative market price of the newly harvested onion everywhere in the region including its vast Barind tr...
-- 2020-12-28 16:22:58
A cold spell has continued to grip Bangladesh's northern regions for the last 10 days, with the mercury dropping below 8.0 degrees Celsius in some parts of the country. Chuadanga recorded the lowest...
-- 2020-12-27 17:05:40
A number of 26,000 dwellers of remote char areas of river-surrounded three upazilas –Shaghata, Fulchhari, Sadar — of Gaibandha are going to get electric facility by June next, an official...
ROVING CORRESPONDENT, PABNA 2020-12-25 13:48:23
Honey producers in Chalanbeel, the vast swathes of wetland in the northern region, are being forced to sell their farm produce at throwaway prices, beekeepers have alleged. They are struggling to rec...
OUR CORRESPONDENT, RAJSHAHI 2020-12-24 12:57:18
Hundreds of young people in Rajshahi's Godagari, one of the major tomato-producing hubs in the country, have become self-reliant by cultivating tomato, a cash vegetable. Traders from different part...
OUR CORRESPONDENT, RAJSHAHI 2020-12-23 14:24:56
As the winter has set in, more than 200 stalls of dhupi or vapa pitha, mostly run by women, have sprung up in different places, especially road crossings and corners, of Rajshahi city. Dhupi or vapa...
OUR CORRESPONDENT, CUMILLA 2020-12-23 12:50:44
A local market in Cumilla's Lalmai witnesses a sale of cow milk to the tune of 12,000 litres every morning. Some 15 milk traders buy the milk from some 2,000 small and medium dairy farmers at the loc...
-- 2020-12-22 21:48:28
Braving the coronavirus pandemic, farmers have already exceeded the fixed production target of Aman rice despite massive damages caused to the crop by recent floods this season in Rangpur agriculture...
OUR CORRESPONDENT, BENAPOLE 2020-12-21 13:20:37
Fishermen are fishing in the Chitra River by illegally putting up enclosures, which result in disrupting the normal flow of the river in Jashore. Such illegal activity has been going on for so long w...
-- 2020-12-20 20:32:58
The tomato farming appeared as a fortune changer for many farmers as it made many peasants solvent in the region this year with also significantly infusing dynamism into the local economy. Sources sa...
OUR CORRESPONDENT, BOGURA 2020-12-20 14:59:11
Financially disadvantaged, more than 500 women artisans in Bogura are busy making kumrabori, a locally made popular food item, this winter season. They have already started selling it too. They say...
-- 2020-12-17 15:27:40
Two youths were killed and another injured as a truck crashed into a motorbike on Satkhira-Khulna highway Wednesday night. The accident took place in front of Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries...
OUR CORRESPONDENT, CUMILLA 2020-12-15 13:42:57
At least 15,000 hectares of agricultural land in the southern part of Cumilla cannot be brought under cultivation due to water logging in a year, agricultural officials and farmers say. The damming o...
ROVING CORRESPONDENT 2020-12-15 10:16:04
Dry fish stockist and producers are facing hardship in the current season as 30 per cent of their produced export quality goods has remained unsold due to corona pandemic in Pabna district. The vil...
-- 2020-12-14 21:02:30
A 32-year-old Hafizur Rahman stabbed himself to death at the court premises in Habiganj, failing to get his wife and eight-month-old son back. The incident took place at the Habiganj Judicial Magistr...
-- 2020-12-13 17:59:09
Farmers are accelerating cultivation and production of spice crops and getting lucrative prices to achieve self-reliance during the last twelve years in Rangpur agriculture region. Officials of the D...
OUR CORRESPONDENT, TANGAIL 2020-12-13 12:00:39
Banana growers of Tangail are making a good profit with the price of the iron-rich fruit going higher this year. They have also witnessed a bumper yield of the popular fruit crop. More than a thousa...
-- 2020-12-12 17:24:31
Commercial farming of high yielding guava has been gaining popularity in the region including its vast barind tract and char (riverbed) areas of the Padma river as the farmers reap better yield and ge...
OUR CORRESPONDENT 2020-12-11 12:24:33
Ignoring corona virus infection, winter clothes trading is going on in full swing in Bogura district as a cold wave is sweeping the area. A good number of people are coming to both new markets and ha...
OUR CORRESPONDENT, BOGURA 2020-12-10 12:02:12
Traditional weavers are fearing for their profession in Bogura, Joypurhat, Naogaon and Gaibandha districts, as they have no modern weaving training. A good many of them have already switched over to...
OUR CORRESPONDENTS 2020-12-08 11:53:21
Three bridges —one in Sunamganj and two in Gaibandha — have been lying unused for two years due to lack of approach roads. In Sunamganj’s Jamalganj, the bridge over the Rokti River...
OUR CORRESPONDENT, BENAPOLE 2020-12-07 12:24:28
Farmers in six districts of the country’s south-western region — Jashore, Jhenidah, Magura, Kushtia, Chuadanga and Meherpur — are busy cultivating and caring for winter vegetables....
OUR CORRESPONDENT, NETRAKONA 2020-12-07 11:03:41
Farmers in Netrakona’s haor (wetland) area are yet to be able to sow their Boro paddy seeds for seedling transplantation due to a slow recession in water there. They say if seeds are not sown a...
NETRAKONA, OUR CORRESPONDENT 2020-12-06 13:35:02
Leaseholders of Birisiri Ferry Ghat (wharf) in Netrokona’s Durgapur are building a new wooden bridge with bamboo poles nearby there over the Someswari River, which locals say will ease their suf...
FE Sylhet Correspondent 2020-12-03 16:54:30
Poor fishermen and inhabitants of some small villages near the nationally acclaimed vast Ratargul Swamp forest have started getting benefits of an initiative taken up under a research programme by the...
OUR CORRESPONDENT, NETRAKONA 2020-12-02 09:54:34
Potters in Netrokona’s Kalmakanda have been facing hard times, as they cannot earn as before for a decent living. Prices of clay soil, the raw material in making pots, have become high largely...
-- 2020-11-29 15:16:29
A young man was found dead in a room of the Union Parishad office under Haripur union in Paba Upazila of Rajshahi district on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Mofazzal Hosain, 30, son of Tofazz...
-- 2020-11-24 17:42:34
Farmers are cultivating tomatoes successfully in the region including the vast Barind tract getting its good yield and better prices in the market. They are very enthusiastic and optimistic over high...
-- 2020-11-22 18:20:33
The native fruit varieties are disappearing fast in Narsingdi due to the adverse impact of climate change, the use of agro-chemical in the ground and the lack of planned ways for the production and ma...
OUR CORRESPONDENT 2020-11-20 11:33:17
With the advent of the winter, a good number of date juice collectors, locally known as Gachhi, who extract juice by cutting head of tree are preparing date tress to collect juice in Bogura. From the...
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