Ghorashal Pineapple and Miyazaki Mango Draw Buyers at National Fruit Fair

In June 2026, popular and rare fruits from across Bangladesh drew buyers and visitors to the three-day National Fruit Fair on the grounds of the Krishibid Institution Bangladesh (KIB) at Khamarbari in Dhaka. On the fair's second day, Friday 19 June, Narsingdi's famous Ghorashal pineapple, a mango called 'Three Taste' and the Japanese Miyazaki variety were the talking points, but local mangoes sold the most.

National Fruit Fair 2026 ran from Thursday 18 June to Saturday 20 June under the theme "We will grow fruit and preserve it all year round". According to Amar Sangbad, it was organised on the initiative of the Ministry of Agriculture and managed by the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE), to promote local fruit, cut post-harvest losses and show the potential for exports.

The Business Standard reported on the opening day that more than 100 local and exotic fruits were on display across 78 stalls; Jagonews24 put the number of stalls at 67. The DAE stall showed nearly 50 rare and endangered fruit species, among them kawphal, dewa, gab, ata, bilimbi and lukluki.

The stalls were crowded on 19 June, and buyers took home mangoes by the 5, 10 and even 20kg. Jagonews24 reported that Himsagar, Gopalbhog, Amrapali and Langra mangoes were selling at Tk 80 to 120 a kg depending on size and quality. Babul Ahmed, a private-sector employee, bought 20kg that day. He said he waits for the fair every year and shares what he buys with relatives and neighbours, as prices there are a little lower.

Alongside local varieties such as Langra, Amrapali, Nag Fazli, BARI-4, Haribhanga and Surjapuri, the fair displayed imported and improved mangoes including Thai Katimon, banana mango, Miyazaki and apple mango.

A 15 June 2026 article by the Agriculture Information Service (AIS) said Bangladesh has about 130 fruit species, some 70 of them grown commercially or in homesteads. The country ranks 28th in the world in fruit production and 7th in mango, producing about 1.5 million tonnes of mango a year. An adult should eat 100g of fruit a day, but availability in Bangladesh is only 95g, and about 60 percent of all fruit is produced in the four months from May to August.

Habibur Rahman, owner of Nature's Fruit, brought Ghorashal pineapples from Raban village in Palash upazila of Narsingdi. He said the pineapple is in great demand in Narsingdi and that, after meeting local demand, he planned to expand into the Dhaka market. He had eaten pineapples from many parts of the country, he said, but rarely one this sweet.

Palash is the smallest upazila of Narsingdi district, and Ghorasal is its municipality. Narsingdi lies about 50km north-east of Dhaka.

At the Alhamdulillah Agro stall, buyers were drawn to the banana mango. One buyer, Shamsuddin, said it usually cannot be found in the market for under Tk 150 to 200 a kg, while good-quality fruit was available at the fair for Tk 100. Its entrepreneur, Murad Sheikh, showed a variety called 'Three Taste' that he said is quite sweet even when green, can be eaten with its skin and tastes good when ripe. All the fruit brought the day before at Tk 110 a kg had sold out, he said, adding that they grow it and other foreign varieties in Dinajpur.

The Japanese Miyazaki was on show at several stalls, but only a firm called Master Agro was selling it. A salesperson said the fruit, grown in a Rajshahi orchard, sold at Tk 400 a kg. Shahriar Enterprise displayed Miyazaki, Dokmai, Chiang Mai, Red Palmer and other foreign varieties; its owner, Ansar Ali, said the firm had started growing banana mango, Katimon and BARI-4 commercially and would gradually expand to other varieties.

A Bangla Tribune report in May 2026 described Miyazaki as one of the most expensive mangoes in the world. In Japan it is grown in tightly controlled conditions, and its premium grade is sold as 'Taiyo no Tamago', or 'Egg of the Sun'. In Bangladesh, the report said, more of it is grown in the Chittagong Hill Tracts than elsewhere.

Photo: Mashkawat.ahsan / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Sources: Jagonews24, The Business Standard, Amar Sangbad, Agriculture Information Service (AIS), Bangla Tribune, Wikipedia