Law Reporters' Forum Holds Annual Fruit Festival
The Law Reporters' Forum (LRF), the organisation of journalists covering law, justice, the constitution and human rights, held its annual fruit festival.
The Law Reporters' Forum (LRF), the organisation of journalists covering law, justice, the constitution and human rights, held its annual fruit festival.
Commercial grape farming is taking root in Rajshahi, with one young engineer harvesting 7,021 kg worth about Tk 21 lakh from 360 vines this season.
One of the country's largest wholesale jackfruit markets has grown up around Simakhali in Magura, supplying 30-35 districts, and a bumper crop has pleased farmers and traders.
Speaking at the Dhaka Reporters Unity's native seasonal fruit festival, the Prime Minister's adviser Mahdi Amin said journalists had led every democratic movement.
A joint drive in Kamalganj recovered about 5 acres of reserved forest that local influential people had turned into malta, pineapple, lemon and betel nut gardens.
At Dhaka's Karwan Bazar, jamun is pressed into juice that goes to processors and exporters, while the once-discarded seeds now sell as powder.
A two-layer ice lolly of ripe mango and coconut milk, made at home without artificial colour or flavour, offers quick relief on a hot day.
Before the mango season ends, ripe mangoes can be turned into mango posset, a creamy dessert made with just a few ingredients.
Adding ripe mango to the familiar patishapta makes an easy new dessert for the mango season.
Fruit flies have destroyed Fazli mangoes worth an estimated Tk 100 crore in Chapainawabganj this season, pushing growers away from the GI-recognised variety.
Ripe mango malai kulfi, combining the natural sweetness of mango with a thick, creamy malai, is easy to make at home with a few ingredients.
Hafez Rokonuddin, a former imam from Nayanpur village in Mymensingh's Bhaluka, has built two commercial latkan orchards and developed a variety known locally as "Nayanpuri latkan", earning Tk 7-8 lakh a year from grafted saplings alone.
Fruit bagging, adopted to protect mangoes and meet export standards, has become a costly burden for Chapainawabganj growers after bag prices doubled and low-quality bags let fruit rot.