Agriculture Minister to Visit Mango Orchards in Chapainawabganj
Agriculture Minister Dr Md Abdur Razzaque will visit several mango orchards in Chapainawabganj on a one-day official trip on Thursday, 13 July.
Agriculture Minister Dr Md Abdur Razzaque will visit several mango orchards in Chapainawabganj on a one-day official trip on Thursday, 13 July.
Heavy rain in Chapainawabganj has brought a fruit fly attack that is splitting Fazli mangoes and leaving crores of taka worth of fruit rotting on the trees.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sent 1,500 kg of mangoes to Pakistani Prime Minister Mohammad Shehbaz Sharif as a goodwill gift.
A simple recipe for mango barfi made with just four ingredients: mango, sugar, milk and desiccated coconut.
A recipe for mango doi, a set yoghurt made with mango pulp, thickened milk, strained yoghurt and caramel.
A Chapainawabganj mango farmer says about 3 tonnes of his mangoes rotted in a government storage facility he used on the advice of agriculture officials.
With Khirsapat and Langra almost gone, prices are climbing at Kansat, the country's biggest mango market, as Fazli mangoes begin to arrive.
Langra and Ashwina mangoes from Chapainawabganj have received geographical indication (GI) recognition, with certificates expected within days.
Orchard owners and lessees in Natore say a sudden fall in mango prices this season means they cannot recover what they spent on their orchards.
What began as sending mangoes to friends has grown into Sohojia, an online venture run by Ishtiaq Asif and his wife Kaniz Fatema Nishita.
Bangladesh's prime minister has sent mangoes as a goodwill gift to Malaysia's King and Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.
Four Miyazaki mangoes, said to fetch Rs 2.5 lakh a kilogram, were stolen from an Odisha farmer's orchard after he posted photos of them online.
Naogaon's five-day mango fair, with 30 stalls, aims to market and brand the district's mangoes.