Mango Exports Formally Begin, Target Set at 3,100 Tonnes
Bangladesh formally opened its mango export season on 10 June with a target of 3,100 tonnes to about 38 countries.
Bangladesh formally opened its mango export season on 10 June with a target of 3,100 tonnes to about 38 countries.
Despite losses, the railway has again launched a low-cost mango and cattle special train from Chapainawabganj, this year routed via the Padma Bridge.
PRAN has started its annual mango procurement and pulping, aiming to collect 50,000 tonnes of mangoes this season.
The Mango Special train resumes from Rohanpur in Chapainawabganj, though its costs have been more than double its earnings over the past four years.
People with diabetes can eat mango and litchi in moderation if their blood sugar is under control and a doctor agrees, experts say.
Mango prices at the Beltala market in Sharsha, Jashore, have shot up since Cyclone Remal, with Himsagar jumping from Tk 1,800 to Tk 4,500 a maund.
With ripe mangoes plentiful in the market, a chilled mango pudding makes a simple dessert that needs only a few ingredients.
With ripe mangoes in season, a mango lassi is a simple way to keep cool in the summer heat.
Chapainawabganj's mangoes are expected in the market after the first week of June, and traders at Kansat are building and repairing their wholesale arots.
Md Asif Talukder, a 30-year-old mango trader, died after members of an 'ojnan party' gang drugged him on a bus from Satkhira to Dhaka.
A three-day agricultural technology fair on the Bagha upazila premises in Rajshahi is showing 135 varieties of mango.
Cyclone Remal has broken branches and brought down large quantities of mango in Kalapara, Patuakhali, where local growers had begun meeting local demand.
Baneshwar in Rajshahi, the biggest mango market in the north, has yet to get busy because of a shortage of mangoes, even as prices have nearly doubled.