Mangoes, jackfruit, lychees, bananas, guavas, dragon fruit and newer imported fruits: growing, orchard care, harvests and markets.
FruitsFruit borer, red spider mite, hopper, stem borer, leaf webber and mealy bug are the six chief enemies of the mango orchard. How to recognise each, the damage it does, and when and how sanitation, traps, biological and chemical controls keep it in check.
FruitsA single mango tree in a drum on a roof, balcony or courtyard can fruit for years. The potting soil, the half-drum, choosing Amrapali and other varieties, planting in Jyaishtha and Ashar, feeding, flower drop and pests, and why the first year's blossom must come off.
FruitsThe orchard falls quiet once the fruit is picked, but next season's harvest is decided now. Pruning and Bordeaux mixture, a soil pH test, 15 kg of manure and a kilo of lime a tree, carefully timed irrigation, mulching and extra potash at flowering: the care that comes before the blossom.
FruitsVitamin C, vitamin A, fibre and potassium at just 47 calories per 100 grams. Oranges protect health from immunity to the heart, and with demand all year and trees that bear for decades, an orchard pays. How to feed, water, weed and pick for a good harvest.
CropsIn Matiranga, Khagrachhari, Forkan Uddin grows lemongrass as a companion crop in the gaps of his mango orchard; fresh lemongrass sells for Tk 250 to 300 a kilogram.
FruitsThe plant-derived product triggers grapevines' own defences against Botrytis, leaves no residue and needs no pre-harvest interval; it goes on sale from October 2026.
GalleryWith dengue patients' families buying malta, imported malta sells for Tk 480 to Tk 500 and local malta for Tk 120 to Tk 130 in Chattogram's retail markets; a photo story from the fruit shops of Kadamtali, Station Road and New Market.
FruitsA 3-D knitted fabric laid over strawberry plants keeps insects off while letting light, rain and air through; in North Carolina tunnel trials covered plants yielded up to 3.56 times more fruit.
FruitsWarm, dry weather let growers move quickly through Central Valley orchards, Blue Diamond Growers reports, but per-acre yields are below last year, kernels are small and spider-mite defoliation threatens the 2027 crop.
FruitsBARI Malta-1 is grown on 60 to 70 hectares in Rangamati Sadar, Naniarchar, Kawkhali and Baghaichhari; yields reach 12 tonnes a hectare and hill malta now goes to Dhaka and Chattogram.
FruitsPrimary schoolteacher Zahir Raihan of Goalanda, Rajbari, has planted about 220 Shahi papaya seedlings on two bighas at a cost of about Tk 200,000 and hopes to sell Tk 500,000 worth of fruit.
FruitsContracts for 12 million pounds of walnut kernels bring this year's Section 32 walnut buying to $45 million as growers harvest a new crop on top of large stocks.
FruitsThe All India Kisan Sabha says Kashmir apple prices have fallen sharply at harvest and calls a protest day on 19 October, before lower duties on New Zealand apples take effect.
FruitsFarmers in Jhalokathi's four upazilas grew hog plum (amra) on 605 hectares this year for 4,590 tonnes; at the Bhimruli floating market it sells for Tk 1,000 to Tk 1,600 a maund, and growers say it pays better than guava, BSS reports.
GalleryVillages across Shibganj and Mokamtala in Bogura are full of banana orchards; photographer Soel Rana follows the ripe bunches from the trees to vans, wholesale depots and trucks bound for markets around the country, in a Prothom Alo photo story.
FruitsIn Madhupur, Tangail, traders now pack pineapple trucks with weeds such as jagatber and German lata (Mikania) instead of straw, and cutters sell them at Tk 300 to 450 a van-load.
FruitsProcessors will pay at least 75 to 90 cents a pound for the 2026 crop, down from $1.05 to $1.30, with final prices unlikely before spring.
