Bangladesh grows most of its watermelons in the hot season, but many farmers now grow them all year round. The fruit grown on bamboo trellises is small but red inside and sweet, and demand among buyers is rising. Prothom Alo reports that these watermelons come from parts of Noakhali, Feni, Cumilla and the Chittagong Hill Tracts, and sell wholesale for Tk 55 to 80 a kilogram depending on size and quality.
Prothom Alo photographer Sourav Das caught the bustle of the off-season watermelon trade at Kadamtali fruit market in Chattogram city in nine photographs. The first shows watermelons being unloaded from a truck; in the next a seller sits beside a heap of them.
Some fruit has been cut open to draw buyers, the red flesh showing among the piles. One picture sets two varieties side by side; another shows how deep red the inside of an off-season watermelon is.
The last pictures are of the selling: watermelons being laid out, some hung up for display, and fruit weighed for a customer.
Prothom Alo's photographs are not shown here; the picture with this story is of a watermelon seller at Lalbagh in Dhaka.
Photo: Wasiul Bahar / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Source: Prothom Alo
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