Floating Market | The Agro News

Century-old floating vegetable market on Bagerhat's Gajalia canal trades Tk 20-25 lakh in four hours and over Tk 4 crore a season

Every Sunday and Wednesday farmers row in cucumber, gourd, bitter gourd, ash gourd, pumpkin, ridge gourd and yard-long beans, and wholesalers from Barishal, Pirojpur, Jhalakathi, Barguna and Chandpur load them straight onto trawlers; DAE deputy director Md Motahar Hossain says infrastructure problem

Krishi Shomoy18 September 20262 min read

Fruits

Hundreds of maunds of guava a day at Tk 700-800 on Pirojpur's floating market; district grows 7,692 tonnes on 716 hectares and trades Tk 18-20 crore a season

Growers paddle dinghies of fresh guava into the Atghar-Kuriana canal at Nesarabad for buyers from Dhaka, Chattogram and Khulna; the Padma Bridge has lifted demand and tourists follow; DAE deputy director Soumitra Sarker wants a mini cold store and UNO Amit Dutta is planning visitor facilities.

Risingbd16 September 20262 min read