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● Mostafiz wins Rangpur city polls ● Ex-Ctg mayor Mohiuddin Chowdhury dies ● Mayor Annisul Huq passes away ● HC verdict on BDR mutiny: Death penalty for 139, life term for 185 ● HC begins reading verdict on BDR mutiny ● 3 siblings among 5 killed in Kishoreganj clash ● 4 workers killed in Sylhet stone quarry landslide

Rajshahi poultry farmers incur loss for fall in egg price

Rafiqul Hasan Firoz

RAJSHAHI, Dec 29: Poultry farmers at Puthia Upazila of the district are incurring huge loss due to fall in egg price. At the same time, they are paying more for buying chick, feed and medicine.Now, many farmers have gone into

Private clinics in Rajshahi doing test business

Rafiqul Hasan Firoz

RAJSHAHI, Dec 25: Several thousands of people from different upazilas and nearby districts come to the city hospital and clinics for quality treatment regularly. Doctors give them many tests for identifying diseases. So they have to go to private clinics

Brick kilns pollute environment, create diseases in Rajshahi

Rafiqul Hasan Firoz

RAJSHAHI, Dec 11: Emission of huge quantity toxic elements with smoke from brick kilns at different upazilas of the district is causing serious environment pollution and creating health hazards, especially lungs and throat diseases. For this reason, the number of

Early winter vegetable farming gains popularity in Rajshahi

Rafiqul Hasan Firoz

RAJSHAHI, Dec 8: The farmers in different upazilas including Bagha, Mohonpur, Tanore and Baghmara, who used to cultivate paddy in their fields, are now becoming more interested in the cultivation of different early variety winter vegetables due to their high

Use of harmful chemical to ripen tomatoes rampant

Rafiqul Hasan Firoz

RAJSHAHI, Dec 6: This year the farmers in Godagari Upazila of the district have started harvesting and selling tomato and are getting fair price in the market. But, still a section of traders are allegedly spraying harmful chemical to ripen

Adulterated date molasses produced in Rajshahi

Rafiqul Hasan Firoz

RAJSHAHI, Nov 21: The upazilas of Bagha, Puthia, Baghmara, Charghat and Durgapur in the district are well-known and famous for producing pure date molasses. The date molasses produced here is sent to different areas including the capital city Dhaka. Meanwhile,

Commercial duck farming gains popularity in Rajshahi

Rafiqul Hasan Firoz

RAJSHAHI, Nov 17: In the wake of gradual increasing demand and lucrative market price, commercial duck farming is gradually getting very popular among the farmers, specially the unemployed youths, in Rajshahi region. In farming, they are applying a mixed method-

Potato farmers suffer loss for price fall at Tanore

Rafiqul Hasan Firoz

RAJSHAHI, Nov 12: Farmers in Tanore Upazila here have become frustrated and are facing loss due to sudden fall in potato price. They are incurring loss of about Tk 17,000 per bigha of potato land, sources said. Talking to The

Tomato farmers fall victim of seed cheating at Godagari

Rafiqul Hasan Firoz

RAJSHAHI, Nov 9: The price of every 10 gram tomato seeds is Tk 800. The name of this hybrid variety seed is 'US Nasib'. Farmers of Godagari upazila of Rajshahi have been cultivating this verity of tomato since last five

Farmers fear yield loss for rain, pest attack

Rafiqul Hasan Firoz

RAJSHAHI, Nov 4: The harvesting of Aman paddy has started at Tanore Upazila of the district, but the farmers are worried about possible yield loss due to rain and rat and pest attack.Due to gusty wind and drizzling rain for