Amilu Nasrin, a farmer from Borichhara village in Pabna’s Ishwardi upazila, began producing vermicompost at her home about 10 years ago, despite facing criticism from relatives and locals.
Vegetable farmers in Pabna are reeling from heavy losses this winter as a glut in supply drives down market prices.
Once a key supply hub for agricultural inputs and fuel to the greater northern region, Baghabari river port in Shahzadpur upazila of Sirajganj is now seeing more and more cargo vessels avoiding it due to years of neglect in navigability management and inadequate port facilities.
Around 50,000 residents from 10 villages along the Gumani River in Pabna are suffering due to the absence of a connecting bridge.
Farmers formed a human chain and demonstrated on the Pabna-Sujanagar road, protesting the falling prices of early-variety onions, as they fear they may not recover the production costs of the edible bulb this season.
The growers dumped onion on Pabna-Sujanagar road demanding a fair price
A farmer of Sirajganj’s Kamarkhand area, Mahabub Hossain Polash, has initiated experimental cultivation of cumin for the first time in the district
Even the freedom fighters who were just returning home after nine months of the war could not enter the district as the Pakistani occupying army in Pabna had put up barricades at all the entry points
Amilu Nasrin, a farmer from Borichhara village in Pabna’s Ishwardi upazila, began producing vermicompost at her home about 10 years ago, despite facing criticism from relatives and locals.
Vegetable farmers in Pabna are reeling from heavy losses this winter as a glut in supply drives down market prices.
Once a key supply hub for agricultural inputs and fuel to the greater northern region, Baghabari river port in Shahzadpur upazila of Sirajganj is now seeing more and more cargo vessels avoiding it due to years of neglect in navigability management and inadequate port facilities.
Around 50,000 residents from 10 villages along the Gumani River in Pabna are suffering due to the absence of a connecting bridge.
Farmers formed a human chain and demonstrated on the Pabna-Sujanagar road, protesting the falling prices of early-variety onions, as they fear they may not recover the production costs of the edible bulb this season.
The growers dumped onion on Pabna-Sujanagar road demanding a fair price
A farmer of Sirajganj’s Kamarkhand area, Mahabub Hossain Polash, has initiated experimental cultivation of cumin for the first time in the district
Even the freedom fighters who were just returning home after nine months of the war could not enter the district as the Pakistani occupying army in Pabna had put up barricades at all the entry points
Farmers are getting higher prices for Aman season paddy this year than the previous year, amidst apprehensions of a fall in yields for heavy rainfall and recurrent floods in the eastern regions.
Nagarbari port, one of the largest riverports in Bangladesh, is mainly used to facilitate the transport of imported fertiliser and coal from Chattogram to 16 northern districts of the country.
