Govt steps required to turn Rangpur division into leading economic region   Courtesy The Financial Express   RANGPUR, Mar 19 (BSS): Experts, politicians and academicians have stressed the need for paying maximum importance to ensuring proper utilisation of a large number of human and natural resources and agriculture sector of the newly formed Rangpur division. Rangpur division has the brightest prospects in becoming the country’s economic backbone if its gigantic natural resources could be explored, human resources utilised and due attention were paid to the prospective agriculture...

Exploitation of Phulbari coal deposit is a must   AKM Sahmsuddin   Courtesy The Financial Express, 18th. May 2010 Proposal of Asia Energy: Asia Energy proposed to extract about 10-15 million tons of coal from Phulbari Coal Field adopting open-pit mining method from a depth ranging from 250 to 300 meters by removing 4400 million tons of overburden (rock, sand, mud, soil) covering an area of about 5.2 sq. km. throughout the life of the mine. The life of the mine is estimated to be 36-38 years. Mining operations will mainly consists of dewatering of aquifer, cleaning and top soil stripping,...

Post-harvest spoilage of fruits, vegetables cause Tk3,392cr losses every year   BSS, Mymensingh The New Nation, 12. July 2010 A study primarily revealed that post harvest spoilage of some selected fruits and vegetables causes a loss of Taka 3,392 crore every year in the country. ” The estimated post harvest losses of fruits and vegetables are enormous which is varies from 18 to 44 percent,” mentioned in a study paper pointing out that the loss was much more if all available fruits and vegetables produced in the country are brought under the research work. A research team led by...

Mango – a research paper by BARI scientists 2008 রসালো মধু মাসের আম বাংগালির ঐতিহ্যের সাথে সম্পৃক্ত। নান জাতের, বণের, সাদের এবং আকারের আম শুধু রসনা বিলাস নয় অর্থকরি ফসল হিসেবেও মুল্য সংযোজন করছে। এর উতপাদন, বাজারজাত করন, প্রক্রিয়াজাত করন এবং সংরক্ষন নিয়ে...