Health
Hawkers at Shimrail dip cucumber and hog plum in dye to keep them looking fresh
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.
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Hog Plum
GalleryIn pictures: the hog plum season at the boat markets of Jhalokati and Pirojpur
With the monsoon over, hog plum (amra) trading is in full swing at the canal and river markets of Jhalokati and Pirojpur; fruit brought by boat at dawn is sorted, sacked and trucked to Dhaka and Chattogram at Tk 900 to 1,200 a maund.
GalleryGlimpse: ambarella by boat, bean fields and wading to the Jamuna chars
Prothom Alo's ten pictures of 20 October: a Thakurgaon bean field, Pirojpur's ambarella market by boat, the shrunken Jamuna, shiuli flowers, hilsa fishing in the ban and a hill woman's Malabar spinach plot.
FruitsJhalokathi grows hog plum on 605 hectares: 4,590 tonnes worth about Tk 12 crore
Farmers 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.
Cooking
A sweet-sour pickle from discarded hog plum peel
Half a kilo of amra peel, boiled and ground, cooked in mustard oil with jaggery and tamarind makes a pickle that keeps for a long time.
CookingTwo hog plum dishes for the season: hilsa with amra and a sweet-sour amra
Hog plums (amra) are in the markets; cook Anisa Akter Nupur gives recipes for hilsa cooked with amra and a sweet-sour amra tempered with mustard seed and dried chilli.
EnvironmentPrime Minister opens tree-planting drive on a Gournadi canal bank in Barishal
On 13 July 2026 Prime Minister Tarique Rahman opened a tree-planting programme on the bank of the newly dug Sharikal-Batajor canal in Gournadi, Barishal, where 2,500 saplings were to be planted that day.
FruitsHow to make sweet-and-sour amra (hog plum) pickle at home
Mustard oil, vinegar, panch phoron and sugar turn a kilo of sour amra into a sweet-and-sour pickle that keeps for a long time. The ingredients, the steps and how to store it.
Fruits
The Season of Seasonal Fruits
Sharat, the autumn season, brings sour fruits such as wood apple, olive, amra and chalta that are rich in vitamin C and help build immunity.
Fruits
Good Amra Harvest in Swarupkathi, Pirojpur
Amra growers and traders in Nesarabad (Swarupkathi) have a bumper crop, but poor transport and a lack of cold storage leave them losing money every year.