The costs of Boro paddy cultivation have risen significantly this season due to higher labour and irrigation costs alongside increased prices of seeds, pesticides and fertilisers, leaving farmers worried about getting a fair price for the staple crop.
Arrays of dragon fruit plants blooming with flowers and fruits this is what this correspondent was welcomed to during his recent visit to Koyes Ahmed’s orchard in Dashinbhag village of Moulvibazar’s Barlekha upazila.
Rapid Action Battalion has arrested a former Chhatra League leader for brandishing a firearm in front of the house of a councillor candidate in the Sylhet City Corporation elections