• 

  Proper agriculture census for attaining SDGs stressed

  Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha . Rangpur | Updated at 01:34am on June 10, 2019

  Officials at a discussion on Sunday stressed on conducting the Agriculture Census-2019 properly to develop agriculture sector, make farm activities more...

• 

  Govt to increase direct procurement from farmers

  Emran Hossain | Updated at 01:32am on June 10, 2019

  The government is planning to increase direct procurement of un-husked rice from the farmers, officials in the ministries of food and agriculture told New Age...

• 

  Govt gives Tk 3,000cr grant to mechanise agri sector: minister

  Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha . Dhaka | Updated at 01:11am on June 10, 2019

  Agriculture minister Md Abdur Razzaque said that the government gave a grant of Tk 3000 crore to mechanise agriculture sector to make it more modern...

• 

  Agriculture Census begins

  Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha . Dhaka | Updated at 06:26pm on June 09, 2019

  Field-level data collection for the country’s 6th Agriculture Census began across Bangladesh on Sunday and it would continue till June 20. During the Agriculture Census...

• 

  Agri Census begins today

  Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha . Dhaka | Updated at 05:21pm on June 08, 2019

  The field-level data collection for the Agriculture Census-2019 begins today in the country to continue till June 20.During the census, the enumerators will collect data...

• 

  Economists demand interest-free loan for farmers

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 01:30am on May 29, 2019

  Agriculture economists, university teachers, former bureaucrats and farmer leaders on Tuesday demanded introduction of interest free loans for the farmers to enable them to overcome...

• 

  Farmers yet to get benefit

  Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 01:31am on May 25, 2019

  Farmers are yet to get any benefit from the jute genome sequence even nine years after it was decoded by Bangladeshi scientists, according to Bangladesh...

• 

  Protests against low paddy price go on

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:41am on May 20, 2019

  Different political parties and famers’ rights bodies continued their protests in Dhaka and across the county on Sunday in demand of fair prices of paddy...

• 

  Approval for GM rice in Bangladesh soon

  Emran Hossain | Updated at 12:19am on May 19, 2019

  The food regulators of the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand have concluded that the vitamin A content in the genetically modified golden rice...

• 

  Growers count heavy losses

  Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan | Updated at 01:19am on May 18, 2019

  Growers are incurring heavy losses being compelled to sell un-husked boro rice below the production costs.The government intervention created no impact on the situation as...