Farmer
Kaiputra: The untold story of a discriminated and excluded community
The public, in general, also uses the same word but Kawara, in Bangla, is used in a derogatory way implying the community that lives with pigs.
Farmers get a raw deal
Floods, low rainfall and then fertiliser price hike -- the woes of farmers just won’t stop. And now, they will have to bear the brunt of a sudden 42.5 percent rise in diesel cost, which is likely to make them spend an additional Tk 4,000 in irrigation for per hectare Boro production.
An indomitable farmer
Farming means everything to Habibul Bahar Sujan. The successful young man wanted to be a farmer since his childhood. But success does not always come easily. People have to be skilled to be successful.
Of a farmer with passion for education
Abdur Rashid is a marginal farmer revered and respected for a completely different role he has been playing for the last nine years in the remote village of Lalmonirhat's Dakkhin Dalgram Parshurampara.
He acts before they are lost
Seeing Yusuf Molla's collection of paddies, one is likely to reminisce about the famous verses of Jogindranath's poem “Kajer Chhele”: “Dadkhani chal, mosurir dal, chini-pata doi...”
A culture of disdain for farmers
Most farmers in this country are cash-strapped but they are not by any means unsuccessful or less civilised than the rest of the community.
Dried up Teesta hits livelihood
“We used to have bumper crops here,” says farmer Mahir Uddin of Char Kalmati village in Lalmonirhat. “The Teesta River used to flow year-round but nowadays there's not enough water in winter for optimal agriculture.”
PM Modi: Let's take nation to 'new heights', time to 'Start up and Stand up'
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces a new campaign 'Start-up India, Stand up India' to promote bank financing for start-ups as he focussed his Independence Day address on promotion of entrepreneurship, farmers welfare and tackling corruption and communalism.
6 killed, 6 missing in cyclone ‘Komen’
At least six people have been killed and six missing in Cox’s Bazar, Patuakhali and Bhola, coastal areas of Bangladesh, with cyclone ‘Komen’ waiting at Bay to make landfall.
Kaiputra: The untold story of a discriminated and excluded community
The public, in general, also uses the same word but Kawara, in Bangla, is used in a derogatory way implying the community that lives with pigs.
Farmers get a raw deal
Floods, low rainfall and then fertiliser price hike -- the woes of farmers just won’t stop. And now, they will have to bear the brunt of a sudden 42.5 percent rise in diesel cost, which is likely to make them spend an additional Tk 4,000 in irrigation for per hectare Boro production.
An indomitable farmer
Farming means everything to Habibul Bahar Sujan. The successful young man wanted to be a farmer since his childhood. But success does not always come easily. People have to be skilled to be successful.
Of a farmer with passion for education
Abdur Rashid is a marginal farmer revered and respected for a completely different role he has been playing for the last nine years in the remote village of Lalmonirhat's Dakkhin Dalgram Parshurampara.
He acts before they are lost
Seeing Yusuf Molla's collection of paddies, one is likely to reminisce about the famous verses of Jogindranath's poem “Kajer Chhele”: “Dadkhani chal, mosurir dal, chini-pata doi...”
A culture of disdain for farmers
Most farmers in this country are cash-strapped but they are not by any means unsuccessful or less civilised than the rest of the community.
Dried up Teesta hits livelihood
“We used to have bumper crops here,” says farmer Mahir Uddin of Char Kalmati village in Lalmonirhat. “The Teesta River used to flow year-round but nowadays there's not enough water in winter for optimal agriculture.”
PM Modi: Let's take nation to 'new heights', time to 'Start up and Stand up'
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces a new campaign 'Start-up India, Stand up India' to promote bank financing for start-ups as he focussed his Independence Day address on promotion of entrepreneurship, farmers welfare and tackling corruption and communalism.
6 killed, 6 missing in cyclone ‘Komen’
At least six people have been killed and six missing in Cox’s Bazar, Patuakhali and Bhola, coastal areas of Bangladesh, with cyclone ‘Komen’ waiting at Bay to make landfall.
Hopes grow for climate-proof beans
A breakthrough in the development of temperature- resilient beans could help sustain a vital source of protein for millions of people around the globe