Climate change impacts hit rice harvests for some farmers Vegetable production on the rise as a more profitable crop Yet farmers say swapping rice for vegetables has challenges RAJSHAHI, Bangladesh, ...

KISHOREGANJ DISTRICT, Bangladesh, May 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Standing in his paddy field in northeast Bangladesh, Shafiqul Islam Talukder holds a handful of empty stalks - all chaff, with ...

Paddy seeds of the BRRI-developed variety BRRI dhan-108 have been distributed free of cost among the farmers of Gopalganj. Under the Partner Project, the Gopalganj regional office of the Bangladesh ...

About 15 million farmers in Bangladesh grow just five to six rice varieties, despite the availability of more than 130 different rice varieties, giving rise to an effective monoculture that leaves ...

The government has set a record in procuring paddy and rice during the Boro procurement programme-2025. According to the Ministry of Food, the government earlier set a target to procure 350,000 metric ...

Rice prices have increased by Tk 3 to Tk 5 per kilogramme across all categories over the past month, despite the recent Boro harvest and continuing imports of the staple grain. The Boro season, the ...

Under the agreement, most-favoured-nation tariffs will be reimposed if rice imports surge by 45% compared to a baseline of ...

Rice is not only the staple food grain for Jalil Mia, like almost all Bangladeshi people, but also the only source of livelihood for his five-member family. Like millions of rural farmers in largely ...

The landless Oraon minority of northwest Bangladesh have traditionally earned a living labouring in local paddy fields, but are struggling as that work dries up due to water shortages NAOGAON, ...

DHAKA, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Bangladesh began buying 200,000 tonnes of rice and paddy from local farmers on Tuesday to boost emergency food stocks to 3 million tonnes in the fiscal year to June 2009, ...

In Bangladesh, weeds in transplanted rice are largely controlled by labor-intensive and costly manual weeding, resulting in inadequate and untimely weed control. Labor scarcity coupled with intensive ...