The sweet-and-sour wood apple, kotbel in Bengali, has become a familiar fruit in Bogura's markets. Sacks of it arrive from Atrai and Sapahar in Naogaon, from Natore and from Satkhira, and from dawn a wholesale and retail market gathers by the town's Rail Crossing No 3. Depending on size, each fruit sells wholesale for Tk 5 to Tk 25.
Prothom Alo photographer Soel Rana followed the market through its day in a photo story. His pictures show fruit from different districts being unloaded from sacks and laid out for sale, and sellers sorting the wood apples by size.
One seller sits behind a display of large fruit, another counts out wood apples one by one for a buyer, and a customer sniffs a ripe one before deciding to buy.
Wood apple is also sold mashed with spices, and buyers crowd round for it. Between the haggling, sorting and selling, the market by the rail crossing stays busy from early morning.
The photographs were published in Prothom Alo's photo story on the market; the descriptions here are our own. The cover picture is an illustrative photograph of wood apples taken in Bangladesh.
Photo: Salim_Khandoker / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Source: Prothom Alo
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