S Dilip Roy

Classes as well as extra-curricular activities of 25 schools in the district are badly hampered as a section of local influential people use the grounds of the educational institutions for tobacco trading for a couple of months during this period of the year.

Cultivation of baby corn, an item used for producing baby food, is gaining popularity in Sadar upazila of Lalmonirhat district.

Lalmonirhat farmers are happy as they are getting ample production of maize and its fair prices in the local market this year.

“We face difficulty in almost every sphere of life in the enclave. Although situated in Bangladesh, ours is an Indian enclave. We don't

“We face difficulty in almost every sphere of life in the enclave. Although situated in Bangladesh, ours is an Indian enclave. We don't

Underprivileged people are the ones who commonly marry off their daughters when they are still children in Bangladesh, and the

Taramoni Das, living at Teesta River basin's Baishshopara village of Mahishkhocha union at Aditmari upazila in Lalmonirhat has

Char farmers in the Teesta and Dharla river basin area in Lalmonirhat district are smiling because there has been a bumper output of pumpkin this year.

Fifty villages in the district Lalmonirhat are known as 'vegetable villages' because all the farmers in these villages specialize in vegetable farming round the year and they have been earning good returns as well.

Around one thousand landless women belonging to 40 groups are now engaged in growing different crops on sandy char (landmass

Good yield of mint in the district this season fails to make farmers happy as they are facing problem to market the aromatic plant

A Bangladeshi farmer has been successful in farming different kinds of hybrid vegetables in Nepal's remote village Ina-ruar of

Once a landless farmer, Nazrul Islam has gained solvency by selling vermicompost fertiliser prepared at his Modhupur village home in

A physical challenged man, despite having only one hand, is working as a typist at Weekly Lalmonirhat Barta, a local newspaper. To everyone's surprise, he is very fast in typing compared to his peers. He earns a meager wage with which he supports his poor family. Farooque Hossain, 44, son of Khayrat Hossain and Fatema Begum resides at Khochabari Nazrultari village in Lalmonirhat sadar upazila. He is the youngest of four siblings, and he got married to Janufa Begum of Durakuti village in Lalmonirhat sadar upazila two years back. He obtained first division in SSC result from Gias Uddin High School in 1990, second division in HSC from Lalmonirhat Government College in 1992 and second division in BA from Kaliganj Karim Uddin Public Degree College in 1995.

Bumper yield of carrots in the district this season cannot make farmers happy as the prices see drastic fall due to lack of buyers amid the non-stop countrywide blockade and frequent hartals enforced by BNP-led 20-party alliance since January 6.