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IPCC, Bangladesh, climate predictions 22.04.2010 Dhaka: Scientists in Bangladesh posed a fresh challenge to the UN’s top climate change panel Thursday, saying its doomsday forecasts for the country in the body’s landmark 2007 report were overblown. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), already under fire for errors in the 2007 report, had said a one-metre (three-foot) rise in sea levels would flood 17per cent of Bangladesh and create 20 million refugees by 2050.   The warning helped create a widespread consensus that the low-lying country was on the...

                                             Northern mat gaining ground in local market http://www.newagebd.com/2009/oct/20/busi.html   Courtesy: New Age Zakir Hossain . Rangpur Mats manufactured by financially vulnerable women of Rangpur-Dinajpur region are making room in the market across the country. Mat promotional activities, an initiative of Rangpur-Dinajpur Rural Service Bangladesh, an NGO, have so far changed the fortune of thousands of financially vulnerable women in the region.    The product manufactured by the poor women of...

Farmers in north see silent revolution in litchi farming http://www.newagebd.com/2010/mar/26/home.html Litchi makes many growers self-reliant  Courtesy: Newage, 26.03.2010 Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha . Rangpur A silent revolution has taken place in litchi farming as hundreds of farmers achieved their economic self- reliance through cultivating the most delicious, juicy and fleshy seasonal fruit in recent years throughout northern Bangladesh.    The farmers as well as experts and officials are expecting a super bumper litchi production in the region including greater Rangpur and...

ICC-B meet focuses on joint PPP bid to fight power crisis Courtesy: The Financial Express 14.04.2010 In an effort to cement ties between the public and private sectors, businessmen urged the government to devise a fast-track approach to facilitate their way to participate along with the authorities in the fight against the nagging power crisis. Investment in power generation and hydrocarbon exploration should be taken on a war footing and the private sector should be encouraged to take part in the process in a realistic manner, the entrepreneurs said at a conference on energy for growth...

Banana market size in city over Tk 10m a day this Ramadan Courtesy: The Financial Express August 29, 2009   Jasim Uddin Haroon The city’s banana market size has reached around Tk 7.0 million at wholesale level a day during this holy month of Ramadan, senior banana traders told the FE. The senior traders said this based on the trucks that arrived each day at the city’s seven wholesale markets. They also said the market size at retail level during this Ramadan is over Tk 10 million a day in the city. Md Abdul Kuddus Hawladar, proprietor of Ferojpur Farm at Waisghat in the city...

BR’s low-cost transportation can reduce vegetable price in Dhaka Courtesy: The Financial Express            RANGPUR, Sept 10 (BSS): Low-cost carrying of vegetables by intercity trains with two luggage vans in each from the northern districts to the capital since February, has been gradually becoming popular to arrest price spirals in the capital city in recent days. Vegetable prices would mark drastic falls in Dhaka when the newly introduced 350 tonne capacity Parcel Express Train on the Parbotipur-Tejgaon route becomes popular through joint efforts and publicity of the...

Environmental impact study before launch of coal-mining Courtesy: The Financial Express November 5, 2009 M Azizur Rahman The government will carry out a study to assess social and environmental impacts of coalmining before the launch of long-awaited mining in the northern region of the country for extracting coal, officials said Tuesday. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has already been requested for funding the study, a senior official of the energy ministry told the FE. He said the study would help extract maximum quantity of coal utilising the world’s most modern...

Food security: Some points to ponder Courtesy:The Financial Express 27.11.2009 Emdadul Haque More than 71 per cent of the capital city’s nearly one million rickshaw-pullers were farmers prior to their migration to the city and taking up this health-decaying profession. Eighteen per cent of them were in abject poverty as they were landless peasants, according to a study of the Social Science Research Council of the Planning Ministry, the ‘Livelihoods of the Rickshaw Pullers of Dhaka City’. Good Earth, a non-governmental research organisation, conducted the study under the...

Orange cultivation starts in Dinajpur Courtesy: The Financial Express 21.12.2009 Our Correspondent NILPHAMARI, Dec 21: Commercial cultivation of Darjeeling variety of orange has started in greater Dinajpur, particularly in Panchagarh district. Sources said, it is expected that the plants would bear fruit from 2011 and the cultivators would start supplying it across the country from the year 2013. Now orange cultivation is spreading rapidly everywhere, specially in all the union parishads of Tetulia upazila in Panchagarh district. A single tree bears 200 to 500 oranges. In the year 2003...