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

Beef at Tk 640 a kg, mutton Tk 940 a kg, dressed broiler Tk 340 a kg, milk Tk 80 a litre and egg Tk 10 a piece

Mulching method, a modern farming technic for producing quality vegetables and fruits, is gaining popularity among farmers in Tangail region nowadays.

Poultry operators say at an international poultry seminar in Dhaka

Visitors making their way to Patuakhali's Rangabali upazila are often greeted with the view of trucks loaded with freshly harvested watermelons. The recurring sight is a result of the recent boom in the cultivation and business of watermelons, catalysed by the inauguration of the Padma Bridge

The tea workers demanded Tk 30,000 in arrears for 20 months in line with the hiked wages that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asked tea garden owners to pay in August last year

"I always think that without research it's not possible to attain excellence. As we are agriculture dependent country, we have given extra importance on agriculture," she said

Mango flowers have been spreading a sweet scent in every corner of Chapainawabganj, and the trees are covered with yellowish blossoms as far as the eye can see.

Crop protection chemical sellers in Bangladesh are facing difficulty in opening letters of credit amid banks’ lack of interest owing to the crunch of the US dollar.

WorldFish Bangladesh organised the event under its USAID-funded ECOFISH II activity, aiming to build the capacity of the stakeholders to integrate an EAFM-based plan for the future marine artisanal fisheries resource management of the Bay

Bangladesh will start exporting potatoes to Russia again this year as the world’s largest country lifted ban on the entry of tubers from the south Asian nation last year, Agriculture Minster Muhammad Abdur Razzaque said today.

The government is likely to limit the individual ownership of non-agricultural land to 40 bighas in an attempt to cope with the scarcity of farmland in the country.

Saiful Islam has lately been busy preparing his five bighas of land to grow paddy. But he reckons he will have to spend Tk 25,000 more than he did last season for the cultivation as the cost of just about everything has gone up.

Young Bangla of Centre for Research and Information (CRI) recently hosted its policy forum Let's Talk on "Smart Agriculture and Innovation" at the Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) in Mymensingh.

The Bogura food controller office filed a case against officials of ACI Limited and Shinu Agro Food Limited for hoarding 4,510 tonnes of rice and paddy in local warehouses.

It requires direct investment to commercialise and modernise the agriculture sector. Over 40 percent of Bangladesh's total labour force is engaged in the farming sector.

Cultivation of several varieties of plums has turned out to be a money-spinner for Abu Bakkar Siddique Russell.

Only a couple of weeks ago, the flow of water in Teesta river was enough to facilitate farming, but the mighty waterbody has completely dried up in many places of Lalmonirhat since then.

When Abdul Haque woke up at dawn yesterday, not even the bone-chilling cold or the fog could stop him from getting out onto the field.