Dhaka September 20, 2024, 4:32 am
The Dutch Agriculture Minister has congratulated his Bangladeshi counterpart for participating at Floriade horticultural expositions, an international exhibition and garden festival, held every 10 years in the Netherlands
The Agriculture Credit Department (ACD) of the central bank on Monday issued a circular asking banks to disburse 40 per cent of the remaining allocation of Tk 30.0 billion refinance scheme in the flood-affected districts
Agriculture, food and fisheries sectors will receive an allocation of Tk 33,698 crore for fiscal year 2022-2023 which was Tk 24,345 crore in outgoing fiscal year 2021-2022
Agriculture Minister Md Abdur Razzak came up with this development to journalists on Tuesday at the beginning of a meeting on three-year work plan for reducing dependence of edible oil on foreign countries
Decision to encourage private-sector rice imports was made at a Food Planning and Monitoring Committee meeting to keep the market stable
Considering the national interest, the government has formulated the Charcoal Policy, 2022 so that charcoal made from jute tricks and other materials and related industries could be flourished in the country
The small loan will be given to any person having 2.5 decimal to 5 decimal of lands after considering him/her as a small farmer
The day-long Bangladesh-Netherlands Agribusiness Conference 2022 was held in the Hague, the Netherlands on Sunday to increase innovation and cooperation, especially in agro-processing sector
Huge subsidies are given for mechanization of the sector. Emphasis is being placed on agro-processing, improved crop varieties and technological innovations, and climate-tolerant agriculture,
She also laid emphasis on food preservation, reduction of post-harvest loss and nutrition security for the same purpose
The amount of stocked fertiliser is enough against the demand. There is no shortage," he said, replying to a starred question
Aus production dropped to 3.0 million tonnes in FY '22 (Mid-March to August) amid a plunge after reaching a record 3.28 million tonnes in FY '21
The varieties were certified and released at the 106th meeting of the National Seed Board (NSB), held at the conference room of the Ministry of Agriculture on Tuesday
The proposal under the Dhaka Initiative has been adopted at the meet as food security is linked with economic and political stability in each country
The commerce ministry updated the list of items in order to provide them with export subsidies following a meeting held recently with different stakeholders
The lockdown-induced value-chain disruption in April-August period as well as the surge in diesel and fertiliser prices in the second half curbed farmers' profits in the last calendar year (2021)
The total spending in this sector is projected to grow by 10 percent on average annually to Tk 377.07 billion in 2023-24 fiscal
The country has adequate stocks of fertilizer. But, due to some dishonest dealers’ farmers had to buy fertilizers at higher prices. So, mobile court will run for the next 15 days
As part of its efforts, the Global Institute for Food Security (GIFS) at Saskatchewan University, Canada opened its regional office at Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council (BARC) at Farmgate in the city on Sunday
A decline in output might make the condition worst further,