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One believes it or not, a government primary school in Shailkupa upazila of Jhenaidah is unofficially declared holiday when a simple cloud is seen in the sky fearing any storm or heavy shower. Plaster from the roof and beams of the building drop always where a number of minor students sustained...
27 Freedom Fighters (FF) were martyred in the border village of Kamanna of Shailkupa upazila in Jhenaidah district on November 26, 1971.The freedom fighters of Bogura union in Shailkupa upazila of Jhenaidah observed the 53rd anniversary of the 27 martyrs. The local freedom fighters and Kamanna 27 Sh...
Brown planthoppers, a harmful pest widely known as “Current Poka,” are damaging the standing Transplanting Aman (T-Aman) plants in different parts of Jhenaidah district. According to the farmers, these issues are beginning to severely affect the health and productivity of their crop...
The three-storied Muktijoddha Complex building, built at a cost of two and a half crores in Shailkupa Upazila of Jhenaidah, was inaugurated about five years ago but is still lying unfunctional.A faction of the freedom fighters led by ex-commander Manwar Hossin Malita sometimes attends in the old bui...
The house of Ila Mitra, a prominent Bengali revolutionary, social activist, and a leader of the peasants' movement in the Indian subcontinent, particularly in Bangladesh (then East Bengal), is in ruins for a lack of proper care and maintenance. The Ministry of Cultural Affairs in 2017 instr...
The potters in Jhenaidah demanded interest-free loan from the government for their survival as they have been leading a miserable life due to their poor financial condition. Plastic and melamine utensils and other accessories have become a serious threat to their existence.If the situation continues...
The farmers of a several villages in Shailkupa upazila in Jhenaidah are facing huge loss as the irrigation canals built under Ganges-Kobadak Irrigation project overflows during the rainy season and flood the croplands every year.Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) authorities are not re-excava...
The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) in Jhenaidah have been removing the stagnant rainwater opening the closed gates of several irrigation canals of Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB). It has been saving the croplands which went under water due to incessant rainfall between September...
All 907 bio-metric attendance machines in the government primary schools in six upazilas of Jhenaidah district remained inoperative for almost five years. After the bio-metric attendance machines were installed in 2018-19 fiscal year, some of the machines went out of work within a few months. Moreov...
The 45-kilometre Jhenaidah-Jashore highway turns into death trap where minor or major road accidents have been taking place every day. The buses and other vehicles cannot move smoothly on the under construction area as the construction authorities did not construct any suitable diversion road. ...
The farmers in Jhenaidah district are very happy as they are receiving better price of jute in the current season. They are also expecting more price in future of the crop. The increasing trend of jute price might increase the farming of the golden fibre in next seasons, the farmers in Jhenaidah sai...
The farmers in six Jhenaidah upazilas have been benefitting by farming taro root in the current Kharif 2 season. They have been harvesting 75 to 80 maunds from each bigha of land. It has been helping to strengthen the socio and economic state of the farmers in the upazilas of the district, said...
The farmers in six Jhenaidah upazilas are producing around 75,328 tonnes of vegetables from a total of 4,400 hectares of land in the Kharif-2 season of the year. Average yield on each hectare was targeted at 17.12 tonnes, said the source related to the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) in Jh...
A total of 170,420 farmers in six upazilas of Jhenaidah district received agricultural incentives of Tk 16.58 crore in 2023-24 fiscal year aiming to boost sufficient and safe food crops production, as well as to reduce the dependency on imported food grains from other countries.The benefited farmers...
The paddy farmers in Jhenaidah and Jashore are deprived of adequate irrigation water facilities. They are incurring huge loss as the irrigation water supplying farmers as well as irrigation pump owners have been allegedly charging excessive money from the farmers for water. The water suppliers ...
The farmers in Jhenaidah are going to make a net profit of Tk one lakh per bigha from their three-month duration summer watermelon farming. It has also been encouraging neighboring farmers to use their lands to cultivate this profitable short-term crop. The government has been providing agricul...
The Transplanted Aman (T-Aman) farmers in six upazilas of Jhenaidah are likely to produce 3.73 lakh tonnes rice in the current season. The Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) had set a target to produce 3.6 tonnes of rice on each hectare on an average, said the DAE sources.Abdur Rauf, residen...
The number of suicides could not be checked even after massive awareness by the government and some non-government organizations in Jhenaidah. At least 129 persons including 71 males had committed suicide by hanging themselves or taking pesticides in the last six months. On average, 21.5 person...
The farmers have been moving here and there with their harvested jute on carts for rotting, find no adequate water in the nearest river, irrigation canals of the Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) or other ditches in Jhenaidah. The farmers are worried as they were getting worst quality j...
The farmers of six upazilas in Jhenaidah are saving around Tk 84 crore in the current transplanting Aus (T Aus) season due to the rainfall for the last seven days. The farmers and the officials of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) in Jhenaidah Khamarbari said it will help the farme...
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