By Natasha Geiling The world already has a hard time properly allocating crucial nutrients to its 7.125 billion residents — and a new study published in The Lancet Wednesday suggests that global warming is only going to increase that challenge.…
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Fazle Hasan Abed, gets 2015 World Food Prize
By DAVID PITT, Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A man who created a nonprofit organization credited with helping more than 150 million people out of poverty was named the winner of the 2015 World Food Prize on Wednesday.…
Legalisation is driving down the price of marijuana
By John Dyer Marijuana legalization and decriminalization has vaulted weed into the realm of commodities like corn, pork bellies, tin, gold, and rubber. In other words, now that people can buy pot almost everywhere, the market is expansive and uniform…
Roof Top Gardening- an urban trend
Dear Editor, Now-a-days, roof top gardening is being popular for the urban citizens in Bangladesh. As open space is so little in the cities people who loves greens are being interested to it.
Rice-wheat-mugbean cropping pattern can double yield
Wide-ranging promotion of rice-wheat- mugbean cropping pattern in bed planting system could be the effective means of making yield of those double in the region including its vast barind tract. Agricultural scientists and researchers told BSS that the on- farm…
Low paddy price irks Sherpur farmers
As paddy farmers across the district have started harvesting the Boro crops, its price remain very low at the growers’ level.Per maund of Boro paddy is selling at Tk 300 -Tk 420 at the growers’ level, and between Tk 400…
Seed assocs of Bangladesh, India sign trade agreement
New Delhi: Seed associations of Bangladesh and India have inked a pact to facilitate traders of both nations to increase business in high-yielding varieties of rice seeds, think-tank CUTS international said today. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between…
Supporting future farmers
Danielle Nierenberg Young people are the farmers and food system leaders of tomorrow. According to the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), young people are increasingly abandoning agriculture and rural areas in search of better prospects, which makes creating opportunities…
‘Conservation technologies for boosting maize production stressed’
Experts at a farmers’ filed day have stressed on adoption of the Conservation Agriculture (CA)-based technologies for boosting maize production at reduced cost to ensure food security under adverse climate.
46,266 hectares brought under Jute cultivation in Jamalpur
Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has brought a total of 46,266 hectares of land under Jute cultivation programme to produce 493,881 bales of jute during the current season.
Mango farmers commercially use fruit bagging technology in Rajshahi, Chapai
For the first time in the region, fruit bagging technology is going to be promoted in mango orchards in Rajshahi and Chapainawabgonj commercially during the forthcoming pre-harvest season to protect mango from pest attack besides facilitating the farmers to get…
Compost fertilizer use can help protect soil productivity
Substantial and sustainable uses of organic and compost fertilizer in the farming fields can help protecting the soil nutrients from further degradation.
Farmers expect bumper Boro production in Gaibandha
Farmers of Gaibandha district are expecting a bumper production of Boro paddy in the current season.
Barind Tract Boro farming command areas achieved
Boro paddy farming in the project command areas of Barind Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA) in the district has been achieved during the current season.
Farmers happy for bumper production of wheat
Wheat farmers of all the five upazilas in the district are happy as they got a desired output and fair prices against the crop during the current season.
Drought-prone Barind tract needs conservation agriculture technology
Time has come to wide-ranging and sustainable expansion and promotion of conservation agriculture (CA) based technologies in the drought-prone Barind tract to protect its soil health from further degradation, agricultural scientists and researchers in a discussion here said.
Sunflower farming gains popularity in Khulna
Sunflower farming has started gaining popularity as the nutritious oilseed brings good profit for the farmers in Batiaghata upazila of the district.
Jute cultivation in Gaibandha
Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has taken up an extensive programme of jute cultivation in the district during the current season.
Agriculture technology fair begins in Rangamati
A three-day agriculture technology fair began at Rangamati Municiality office premises on Wednesday to disseminate latest agriculture technology know-how among the hilly farmers of the district.
Sunflower farming flourishing in Satkhira
Sunflower (scientific name Helianthus annuus) has turned out to be a strong medium for economic uplift of the farmers in the district as the oilseed’s cultivation has risen around 35 times here over the last three years.
Need for e-agriculture services for boosting food production stressed
Speakers at seminar here today urged concerned field level agricultural officials to acquire adequate knowledge on ‘e-Agriculture’ for reaching necessary information and services to thefarmers’ doorsteps for enhancing food production.
Middle income countries key to eliminating hunger
March 11, Washington, DC – Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, and Mexico may be rising economic powerhouses, but these five fast-growing, middle income countries are still home to nearly half of the world’s hungry, or 363 million people. That is why…
Strategies to revitalise agricultural education mapped
Hyderabad, India – ‘One Agriculture-One Science,’ a global consortium of agricultural education and research institutes across Asia, Africa and the USA, has mapped out plans and strategies to expand its initiatives to revitalize and bring systematic changes in agricultural education,…
Growing food trade, shrinking self-sufficiency
Washington, DC – As society reaches the limits of available farmland and accessible irrigation water, many countries have turned to international markets to help meet domestic food demand. Imports of grain worldwide have increased more than fivefold between 1960 and 2013. However, importing…
Integrated watershed management helping empower women in India
Hyderabad, India – Amid current uproar on inequality and prejudice faced by many women in India, what’s heartening is that positive changes are happening for some women in the rural sector – one of the toughest groups to reach due…
MPs call for reform of EU’s ‘flawed’ rules on GM crops
Europe’s approval system for genetically modified (GM) crops is “fundamentally flawed”, say MPs.
Change in cropping pattern can double yield in the north
Rotating cultivation of rice, wheat and other crops under bed-planting system can double the yield in the northern districts, particularly in the high and dry Barind belt, according to an on- the-ground research finding.
Community generated resaearch to solve farmers’ problems
Danielle Nierenberg Around the world, farmers, scientists, researchers, and NGOs are creating innovative, on-the-ground solutions for the problems they face each day: water scarcity, resource depletion, land degradation, crop loss, and weather volatility. Many of these ground-breaking ideas have great…
Keeping food security on table at UN climate talks
By Denise M. Fontanilla and Chris WrightReprint Geneva Feb (IPS) – Food security has become a key issue of the U.N. climate negotiations this week in Geneva as a number of countries and observers raised concerns that recent advances in…
RDRS introduces rice seedling transplanter in Rangpur
RDRS Bangladesh has introduced rice seedling transplanter machines here on trial basis under Sustainable and Resilient Farming Systems Intensification (SRFSI) Project during this Boro season at two research farms.