Farmers in the northern district are passing busy time for planting Boro seedlings, ignoring the biting cold during the peak cultivation season.
At least two century-old rail bridges on Santahar-Lalmonirhat rail tracks, which connects the capital with cities in northern districts, continue to be in service despite their ramshackle state.
Over a thousand people, mostly women, living in extreme poverty in Palashbari upazila have found a way to bring home some extra income without investing any money.
After meeting winter clothing needs of the country’s low and limited-income groups, knitwear factories in Kochashahar union of Gobindaganj upazila are now looking to export their goods overseas.
Obstructing outdoor games, the headmaster of a high school in Gaibandha’s Fulchhari upazila has been cultivating black lentils on the school playground for the last two years.
Petbhata village in Rangpur is now known as Oushodhi Gram (village of herbs) as hundreds of families there are gaining solvency by planting herbs.
Prolonged flood in the char lands of Gaibandha district has completely damaged aman seedlings causing local farmers to worry about their crops. However, with advice from agriculture officers, farmers found a solution in the floating seedbed technology.
The famous red chilli market on the bank of the Jamuna at Gajaria in Gaibandha’s Fulchhari upazila has been running under the open sky for over a decade, much to the sufferings of sellers and buyers.
Use of herbal pesticide developed by a local farmer is gaining popularity among the farmers of Katabari union in Gobindaganj upazila
Sugarcane on about 100 bighas of land under the mill zone areas of Rangpur Sugar Mills in Gaibandha district have dried due to severe attack of stem borer, locally called majra poka, much to the worry of growers and mill authorities.
A sharp fall in the water level of the river Teesta has caused the emergence of large chars in the riverbed in and around Sundarganj upazila, disrupting waterways communication and posing threat to the livelihood of local fishermen and boatmen.
Drastic fall of water level in the Jamuna River badly hamper movement of ferry boats from and to Balashi ghat of Gaibandha district.
Faced with acute manpower shortage and other problems, authorities of West Zone of Bangladesh Railway (BR) have closed down 16
Liton Babu has changed his life by flower cultivation on his ten decimals of paternal land at remote Purbo Chaponhati village in Sundarganj upazila under the district.
