Agriculture

Bangladesh is third among the most agriculturally digitalised countries in South Asia but this feat has been achieved with the help of non-digital enabling environments such as swift access to markets and adequate electricity coverage. Government initiatives for utilising information and communication technology (ICT)...

Agricultural loan disbursement increased by 7% in the first eight months of FY21 compared to the same period of the previous financial year, but banks lag behind in meeting disbursement targets. Between July and February of FY20, 62.56% (a little more than Tk15,000 crore)...

The government has released Tk 570 crore from the Tk 1,500 crore stimulus package for their disbursement among small traders, entrepreneurs and farmers to help them survive the ongoing pandemic. Eight government and semi-government agencies will disburse the fund this fiscal year while the...

Tea processing factories are being set up in Panchagarh in increasing numbers in keeping with the fast-expanding cultivation of the popular beverage in northern districts.   Seventeen tea processing factories are already in operation in Panchagarh and one in Thakurgaon, according to the Bangladesh Tea...

Experts at an on-field practical training workshop have stressed on adopting scientific methods and latest technologies in tea cultivation on plain lands to further boost its production. Bangladesh Tea Research Institute of Bangladesh Tea Board (BTB) organised the event on ‘Selection of leaves, fertilisation and pests’ management...

Buoyed by a surge in interest in coffee farming that had a modest beginning in the Chattogram Hill Tracts back in the 1990s, Bangladesh plans large-scale commercial production of coffee beans. Coffee farming has spilled beyond the rolling hills into the vast swathes of...

Less than a quarter of Bangladesh’s farming community belongs to the medium and big farmers’category, whose average farm size is above 1.5 acres. However, a vast majority of farmers, 76% of them, are small and marginal, who either have no lands of their own or possess small...

With winter coming to an end, farmers have begun to harvest their tea trees. As a result, long rows of leafless shrubs can be seen from a distance at the country's 167 tea gardens. There are several methods to harvest a tea plant depending...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday asked agricultural scientists to conduct further research over local fruits and agricultural items to expand the market for those.  "It's essential to conduct more research on our local fruits and local items. It needs to expand the market of local items conducting...

Agriculture Minister Dr Abdur Razzaque has said no matter how much the country develops, the source of livelihood of the people will not increase if the agricultural sector does not develop. He urged agriculture ministry officials to work to increase the production of nutritious...