Peanut brings smile to char farmers in Pabna, Sirajganj

Md Aiyub Khan, a farmer of Kollanpur char in Pabna's Bera upazila, cultivated 10 bighas of land to produce 100 maunds of peanut, the only crop that can be grown on sandbanks. "The land is not fertile enough to cultivate other crops. So, I cultivated peanuts expecting bumper production. I have already harvested five bighas but the Jamuna river is swelling up now and I am