In Dumuria upazila of Khulna, many kinds of vegetables are grown on the dykes of fish ghers. Picked at dawn, they pile up through the morning at Dumuria's wholesale vegetable market, loud with farmers, traders and commission agents, and from there go to local retail markets and to districts across the country. Prothom Alo photographer Saddam Hossain recently photographed the market's bargaining, trading and loading.
His pictures show a commission agent seated behind a huge spread of green papaya and a seller arranging bitter gourd. Workers hurry to unload crates of vegetables brought by pickup from different areas. Fresh spiny gourd is stacked with care in plastic crates.
Wholesale buyers check brinjal crate by crate before buying. One trader sorts taro corms by size to make them easier to sell, and a buyer counts bundles of spinach from a commission agent. A farmer has brought green bananas to market tied to his motorcycle.
Ripe yellow papaya sits beside the green vegetables, round pumpkins are lined up on the floor of the depot, and buyers pick through olives. Early-season beans have arrived too; because farmers brought only small amounts, buyers are keen to look and buy.
The photo story follows vegetables from the gher-dyke fields to a single market and on towards retail shops and distant districts, with farmers selling straight to wholesalers and commission agents.
Photographs: Saddam Hossain, Prothom Alo (in the original photo story). The picture used here is of a wholesale vegetable market in Dhaka, for illustration.
Photo: Press Information Department / Wikimedia Commons (public domain)
Source: Prothom Alo
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