Even after toiling hard for an entire year, Shivaji Rao, a 37-year-old farmer, would find it hard to cover the basic expenses of his family. He cultivates maize from his one-and-a-half-acre land in India’s Southern State of Telangana. Roa told IPS that the prices of fertilisers and seeds in his home state
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Mobile solar pump becomes boon for Kurigram farmers
In an effort to reshape the destiny of Kurigram char farmers, the Rural Development Academy (RDA) introduced a portable solar pump for irrigation that has brought much-needed relief to them. With the support of the government funded portable solar pump, around 1500 farmers of Bajradiyar-Khata village of Chilmari upazila now can
Banks to provide Tk 35,000cr loans to farmers
Commercial banks in the country have allocated Tk35,000 crore for loans to farmers in the current fiscal year 2023-24 to increase agricultural production. The new allocation is 13.60% more than the last fiscal year. In the last financial year, the target for agricultural loans was Tk30,811 crore. Bangladesh Bank Deputy Governor
Uttara Beej Himagar holds agents’ meeting
Uttara Beej Himagara Limited was held a meeting of its agents on February 12 at its office in Natkhana Bypass Road in Nilphamari. Shahid Mahmud, Managing Director of Himagara and also the District Jubo League General Secretary and Sadar Upazila Parishad Chairman, presided over the meeting. Rupali Bank Limited’s Nilfamari Branch
Climate change puts Bangladeshi farmers’ reliance on rice varieties to the test
Bangladeshi farmers overwhelmingly cultivate rice using the BRRI-28 and BRRI-29 varieties developed by the government, despite the availability of more than 100 alternative varieties, some of them better suited to changing climatic patterns.Yields are declining for these two popular varieties as arable land becomes more saline, dry, or submerged due
BRAC Bank holds awareness programme for cattle farmers, traders
BRAC Bank has arranged a digital payment awareness programme under the guidance of Bangladesh Bank for cattle farmers and traders in Chuadanga, a press release said Monday. The bank organized the event in Alamdanga Cattle Market on June 8, 2022 as the lead bank where the senior officials of Bangladesh Bank,
2,500 farmers get incentive for Aush cultivation in Manikganj
A total of 2,500 small and marginal farmers get seed and fertilizer as incentives for boosting the production of Aush paddy in the district during the current season. Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) office sources said the government has distributed seeds for cultivating one bigha of land and necessary fertilizers including