IDCOL resumes financing for solar irrigation pumps
Infrastructure Development Company Limited on Tuesday resumed its financing support for solar irrigation pumps or SIPs, said a press release.
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Workshop on irrigation efficiency held at BADC
A workshop titled Assessment of the Present Irrigation Efficiency In different Agro-Ecological Zone of Bangladesh was held at the seminar hall of Irrigation Building at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in Dhaka on Monday...
Rethinking irrigation economics
IN BANGLADESH鈥橲 parched boro fields, water is not just a resource; it is the currency of food security and rural prosperity. With over 80 per cent of the country鈥檚 cropland now irrigated, primarily during the dry season, irrigation has doubled rice yields since the 1970s and propelled near self-sufficiency in staple foods. Yet this achievement carries hidden economic and...
TEESTA IRRIGATION PROJECT:聽Govt-set rate Tk聽480 an acre, farmers pay Tk聽1,000 for water supply
Farmers are allegedly paying Tk聽1,000 an acre for irrigation water supply from the Teesta Irrigation Project although the government has set the rate at Tk 480 an acre throughout the year.
Alternate wetting, drying save irrigation water: farmers
Widespread adoption of the Alternate Wetting and Drying irrigation method can save significant volume of water and can markedly reduce methane emissions during rice cultivation, according to experts and farmers...
BADC holds seminar on minor irrigation survey
The Minor Irrigation Wing of the Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation on Wednesday organised a workshop on 鈥榯he effectiveness of constructed or to be constructed rubber dams in Bangladesh and minor irrigation survey 2023-24鈥�...
Iran president arrives in Sri Lanka, inaugurates power, irrigation project
Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi arrived in Sri Lanka on Wednesday and inaugurated a power and irrigation project, unaccompanied by his interior minister who is being sought for arrest over a deadly 1994 bombing...
Authorities must attend to irrigation crisis in north
THE farming of boro rice, the largest rice crop that accounts for 54 per cent of the total rice production, facing an irrigation problem in the north is concerning. Thousands of farmers in northern Rajshahi and Rangpur are reported to be facing...
Boro farming faces setback due to frequent power cuts
The cultivation of irrigation-intensive crop boro faces yet another setback as a result of a water crisis amid frequent power outages that, in certain areas, last up to 18 hours.
