GalleryFrom first light, the wholesale cucumber market at Charbardhangachha in Ullapara, Sirajganj, is busy with farmers washing, heaping and bagging fresh cucumbers bound by truck for Dhaka and the rest of the country.
Sold to bus passengers on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway, the produce is coloured by sellers who admit it. A doctor warns of serious harm; officials promise action.
VegetablesCucumber has been sown on 225 of a targeted 360 hectares in Ullapara, Sirajganj, and early produce is selling at high prices at the Charbaddhangachha and Chaksha wholesale markets.
VegetablesFavourable weather has given Teknaf a bumper cucumber crop and early cucumbers are fetching good prices. Growers say fertiliser came late and pesticides cost too much; the upazila agriculture officer says there is no fertiliser shortage.
VegetablesEarly cucumber covers about 60 hectares in Madarganj, Jamalpur, with output of around 2,000 tonnes expected; wholesale prices are Tk 30-40 a kilogram, and a bigha costs Tk 15,000-20,000 to grow and sells for Tk 30,000-40,000.
VegetablesAdvised by the agriculture office, more than a hundred farmers in Malgara, Pekua, turned failing paddy land over to cucumbers; Cox's Bazar has 126 hectares under the crop this season and sales of Tk 16.87 crore so far.
Sixty per cent of Sirajganj's 130 hectares of cucumber has been grown on plastic mulch as demonstration plots this season, and extension officers put the yield at 40 to 45 maunds a bigha.
CookingCubed pineapple and cucumber tossed in lemon juice, black salt, kasundi and green chilli make a sweet, sour and hot salad. Jagonews24 published the recipe in late June 2026, in the pineapple season.
AgribusinessOn 29 May 2026, the day after Eid ul-Adha, Jatrabari's depots in Dhaka had few buyers and no new consignments; one-kg hilsa fell to Tk 1,600-1,800 from Tk 2,200-2,300 and cucumber dropped Tk 40 a kg to Tk 50-60.
A Meherpur farmer who swapped tobacco for cucumber has tripled his profit, and more than a hundred local farmers have followed.
