A crop disease which has yet to be identified is devastating maize fields in the western district of Chuadanga, dashing the hopes of local farmers to turn a profit from producing the cereal grain.
Farmers in Patuakhali have successfully cultivated wheat through a method known as relay cropping, raising hopes that lands left fallow during the dry season can now be used for growing the cereal grain.
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Wheat cultivation: Farmers, buoyed by soaring prices of flour in the domestic market because of the decline in imports, have brought more areas under wheat cultivation this season in a welcoming development.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has received permission from the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) to stage its sit-in protest in Nayapaltan on Wednesday (11 January). "BNP has been given permission to hold the programme from 10am to 2pm on condition of keeping traffic movement normal," DMP's Deputy Commissioner (Media) Faruq Hossain told The Business