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DHAKA, April 21, 2021 (BSS)- Among various diseases, cancer has posed a big threat to human beings across the country. The disease denotes a horrifying sight in each and every person as most people perceive cancer means death.
Cancer occurs in people of all ages and can affect any part of the body while the disease is a leading cause of death for children and adolescents worldwide.
Physicians say it is also important to know that cancer as a disease mostly affects the senior population, higher life expectancy means higher cancer rates.
It is afflicting that the number of cancer patients has been increasing day by day due to food habit, bad lifestyle and negative impact of industrialization and technology.
Mizanur Rahman sometimes takes a look at some photographs on his mobile phone. Those are a bit old, taken about a year ago.
After a while, he stops looking at them with a deep sigh. These pictures reminded him of his dream of making it big in turkey farming.
Watching inspiring stories of turkey farming on YouTube, Rahman bought 50 American variety of turkey chicks for Tk 60,000 in early 2019. Within six months, they weighed around five kilogrammes (kg).
The farmer in South Jhawgara village in Melandah upazila of Jamalpur made a good profit by selling them between Tk 500 and Tk 600 per kg.
Potatoes produced by contract growers of the Bangladesh Agricultural Corporation (BADC) are now being exported to Malaysia, a development that is likely to encourage farmers to improve the quality of their produce in order to reap fair prices. Under the supervision of BADC, the first consignment of 28 tonnes of the diamond potato variety was sent to Malaysia on March 30.
18 April 2021 THE rising prices of essentials, driven by travel restrictions are making it difficult for middle and low-income people to make ends meet. The second wave of coronavirus and the countrywide lockdown have brought back last year's trauma when businesses laid off employees, slashed salaries or simply closed for good. A recent study has revealed that 78.5 per cent of households did not recover from the hardships of the general holidays.