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...

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...

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...

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...

Potato growers lament lack of cold storages in Rangpur, Dinajpur Courtesy: The Financial Express 13.04.2010 Our correspondent RANGUR Apr 5: Potato growers in eight districts of Rangpur division are facing serious problem in preserving their produce owing to shortage of cold storages. According to the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), a total of 31,32,500 tonnes of potato was produced in 1,70,700 hectares of land in Rangpur, Kurigram, Lalmonirhat, Gaibandha, Nilphamari, Dinajpur, Thakurgaon and Panchagarh districts. DAE source said there are 62 cold storages in the region with the...

http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/more.php?news_id=94550&date=2010-03-10 Panchagarh emerges as third largest tea producing zone Courtesy: The Financial Express 10.03.2010 Our CorrespondentPANCHAGARH, Mar 9: Panchagarh has emerged as the third largest tea producing zone in the country, next to Sylhet and Chittagong, as it has started exporting the crop to the foreign countries.   Bangladesh earns around Tk 120 million by exporting tea leaf grown in 19 tea estates of the district. A team of the commerce ministry visited Panchagarh recently and conducted an experiment on the prospect...