Joyanta Saha, back from Chittagong Hill Tracts,
bdnews24.com
Published: 20 Feb 2021 11:23 PM BdST
Updated: 20 Feb 2021 11:24 PM BdST
Buoyed by a surge in interest in coffee farming that had a modest beginning in the Chattogram Hill Tracts back in the 1990s, Bangladesh plans large-scale commercial production of coffee beans. );
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Coffee farming has spilled beyond the rolling hills into the vast swathes of Nilphamari, Tangail and Moulvibazar.
The Department of Agricultural Extension or DAE and Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute or BARI are spending Tk 2 billion on separate projects to promote the cultivation of the non-traditional cash crop.
Farmers are being trained up while research is being carried out on the local coffee species and the new technology in coffee farming.