Alleged collusion among dealers and retailers to hike fertiliser prices by “creating an artificial shortage” through hoarding and supply control is causing discontent among farmers, according to a report prepared by the Special Branch of the police.

Police recover 33 sacks as shortage and delayed distribution fuel anger in Bhurungamari

Bangladesh’s small-scale farmers, who make up more than half the country’s food producers, earn less than half the reported national average income, according to a new Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics survey published yesterday.

Public investment and policy support for the agriculture sector have increased over the years, but the benefits of budgetary allocations have yet to adequately reach smallholder and marginal farmers, experts said today

The depeasantisation thesis associated with Kautsky and popularised as “the Agrarian Question” needs to be subtly understood in Bangladesh.

Kamal Mia, a farmer in Gazipur’s Sreepur upazila, went to a local market recently to sell a maund of paddy to buy meat and other essentials as he was expecting guests.

One in every four households, or 26.13 percent, that rely on agriculture for their income face food insecurity

Farmers in Bangladesh have been left displeased with lower rainfall during the monsoon season this year as they were unable to plant Aman paddy on time due to a lack of natural irrigation.

Take urgent stock of the impact of El Nino on our agriculture

Bangladesh needs to find a realistic solution to a persistent problem

When Abdul Haque woke up at dawn yesterday, not even the bone-chilling cold or the fog could stop him from getting out onto the field.

More investment is needed in research work to understand the dynamics and impact of loss and damage in climate-vulnerable communities.

We now face the real risk of massive hunger and famine.

The burden of rising fuel prices on farmers will affect the entire country

The government has raised the price of urea fertiliser for the first time in 11 years, burdening the farmers with an increased production cost.

Stop discrimination and stand by farmers, demanded one placard. Buy rice directly from farmers, said another. Yet another screamed, “Save farmers, save agriculture.”

It is difficult for farmers to develop a good marketing plan without proper market information, as is the case for managers of any

The government allocated a Tk 58.77 crore incentive for the flood-hit farmers of 64 districts so that they could recover the losses caused by the recent floods, said Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury yesterday.

Farmers in most parts of the country have started harvesting Boro paddy with high hopes of getting a better price this season.

At least 500 bighas of prime farmland loses productivity in five upazilas of Lalmonirhat every year, as their topsoil is sold to feed around 40 local brick kilns.