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In Pirganj upazila of Rangpur district, more than half a hundred illegal brick kilns are using top soil of agricultural land. Wood is being burned instead of coal. Around the brick making season, huge piles of soil have been stockpiled in the lowlands. About 30 kilns have already been set on fire fo...
There is no similarity with the Bengali proverb about milk and rice being our staple food in rural areas. However, the milk collected from reared cows is working as a source of income for many. In the rural areas of Rangpur, including the Teesta char areas, the prosperity of the once needy fami...
A jeep vehicle and 33 motorcycles of Rangpur District Primary Education Office have been decided to be sold at auction as the required amount of money has not been allocated even with the demand. The Primary Education Office has already written to BRTA to take necessary action.According to the relev...
Six sugar mills including Shampur in Rangpur have been closed. So, concerned authorities have decided to sell the sugarcane produced in the mill zone area to the running sugar mills located in the surrounding areas. However, there is uncertainty among the farmers as to when they will get the pr...
Rangpur region is advancing faster than other regions of the country in terms of setting up of modern feed mills, hatcheries and poultry farms. However, farmers are frustrated over the increasing price of chicken feed, unavailability of fair egg price, and complications in getting incentives.Althoug...
Kandinar Char, a remote area on the banks of Teesta River. Residents of the island move from a place to another either on the winding unpaved earthen roads or on the isle of farmlands. There is no scope of bigger vehicles or ambulances to move on those earthen roads. Finding no other way, Rahim...
Some polythene sheets, bamboo sticks, mats, utensils, cooking pots and some clothing to wear, these are all the assets of a River gypsy family. River gypsies are better known as Bede in Bangladesh, who leads a nomadic life moving on boats.A group of Bede families is seen to set their shanties beside...
Potatoes in Rangpur region have started to come in the markets. Farmers of Kishoreganj upazila in Nilphamari, known as the area of potato cultivation, cultivated potato after harvesting Aman paddy. However, in spite of various adversities, the prices are not matching this time as compared to other y...
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Deputy Minister of Water Resources AKM Enamul Haque Shamim said that the Ministry of Water Resources is working relentlessly to bring river erosion down to zero in the country under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.“The Awami League government is working to implement various init...
The agriculture department expects to produce Aman paddy worth Tk 6,200 crore in the Rangpur agricultural region this time. Out of which, more than Tk 200 crore worth of paddy has been produced in 37,000 hectares of land in Teesta Barrage Command area, the largest irrigation project in the country.W...
There is no forest or extensive mustard cultivation in Rangpur. That is why it was difficult to get pure honey in there even a few years ago. However, now the situation has changed. Pure honey is being collected from wooden box-filled with bees that are planted inside litchi orchards in different ar...
From the eighties onwards, agriculture in Rangpur region gradually got a touch of modernity. At present about 30 types of modern machinery are being used in agriculture. For the sake of science, the era of traditional usages of plow-yoke, ladder and oxen is now coming to an end. Modern plows, tracto...
The Binbina village is being wiped off the map by the catastrophic erosion of the Teesta River as the recent floods caused by heavy rains and mountain slopes have not subsided.Due to heavy rains and the rising and falling of the Teesta water coming down from the upper reaches, the residents have los...
Harijan community people, earlier regarded as 'untouchables' or Dalit community are spending their lives in utter misery at New Jummapara area of Rangpur city. With sorrow, misery and trouble as their daily companion, every Harijan family with six to eight members is huddling in a singl...
Fish researchers at the Syedpur Freshwater Sub-Centre in Nilphamari district have brought nine out of 64 endangered native verieties of fish, in the northern region of the country, back to life.Out of those nine revived varieties, six varieties have already been marketed at farmer level. If the rese...
During this late-autumn season Aman paddy harvesting and threshing festival is going on in all the fields of the country.However, as the prices of essential commodities including onions, chilies and vegetables are out of reach, the celebration of Nabanna Utsab, a festival of harvesting and eating ne...
Currently the late of autumn is going on and winter will arrive soon. However, in the meantime, various winter vegetables have started to appear in the markets of Rangpur. The vegetables produced in Rangpur are being transported by truck every day to the wholesale markets of different areas inc...
Although the winter season is still about a month away in Rangpur region, the nature is remaining covered with fog from evening till next morning. It feels like winter already.People are thronging the old clothes’ shops to buy warm clothing fearing the winter to gradually increase. As a result...
While the festive mood is prevailing among the farming families in the Rangpur region around the cutting and threshing of transplanted Aman paddy, the landless needy families do not get one meal at a time. The children and teenagers of these families are looking for rat holes in the paddy fields cut...
The rice market in the north, known as the granary of the country, has once again become volatile due to the sudden price increase of rice. Although the harvest of Aman paddy started in the beginning of autumn, the price of rice has been increased in the market. In terms of quality and variety,...
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