FruitsHow to pick a sweet papaya: colour, ridges, stalk and smell
Mizan Mia, who has sold fruit in Agargaon for 30 years, says to look for ripening from the ridges, a slight give under the thumb, little white latex at the stalk and a sweet smell.
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GalleryIn pictures: Dumuria's wholesale vegetable market, from gher-dyke papaya to early beans
Vegetables grown on the dykes of fish ghers in Dumuria, Khulna, are picked at dawn and brought to the upazila's wholesale market, which supplies local shops and other districts.
FruitsFrom two papaya trees in the yard to a Tk 7.5 lakh surplus: a Gazipur farmer's orchard
Inspired by one or two papaya trees that sprang up by the dung heap in his homestead yard, a Gazipur farmer planted 105 seedlings on 10 decimals; his second planting of 750 left a cash surplus of about Tk 7.5 lakh after costs.
FruitsRaw papaya falls to Tk 4 to 10 a kilo: relief for buyers, losses for farmers and traders
Wholesale raw papaya in Dhaka has sold at Tk 4 to 10 a kilogram for a week after bigger plantings and good yields flooded the market; papaya that costs Tk 10 to 12 a kilogram to grow is selling for less than half that.
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Barishal man buys the land his sharecropper father tilled and builds a papaya farm
Suman Ahmed of Babuganj, Barishal, used his earnings as a painter abroad to buy the land his father once sharecropped; his 173-decimal farm grows papaya, vegetables and fish and aims to raise two million papaya seedlings this year.
FruitsNaogaon grower's 1,250 papaya trees on 3.5 bighas could earn Tk 2.3 million
Amjad Hossain of Chuarpur, Badalgachhi, spent about Tk 500,000; at two maunds a tree and Tk 1,200 a maund he expects about 2,400 maunds worth Tk 2.88 million.
FruitsMadhupur storm loss put at Tk 100 crore as 700 farmers count damage
A sudden 10-minute storm this week damaged the banana, papaya and other crops of about 700 farmers in four unions of Madhupur, Tangail; the agriculture office puts the first estimate of the loss at about Tk 100 crore.
FruitsGreen Nandail papayas ripen on the truck to Dhaka; officials to probe chemical claim
Hard green papayas bought at Tk 10-12 a kilo in the chars are wrapped in paper and trucked off, arriving ripe at Karwan Bazar to sell for Tk 150-200; a trader denies using chemicals.
FruitsAt 95, a Barguna farmer runs a papaya orchard and clears Tk 2,000 a week
Rustam Ali, 95, has planted 350 local Shahi papaya trees on about one and a half acres of leased land at Amtali-Nimtali in Barguna Sadar and sells the fruit himself.
FruitsGoalanda schoolteacher grows Shahi papaya on two bighas, hopes for Tk 300,000 profit
Primary schoolteacher Zahir Raihan of Goalanda, Rajbari, has planted about 220 Shahi papaya seedlings on two bighas at a cost of about Tk 200,000 and hopes to sell Tk 500,000 worth of fruit.
FruitsHybrid papaya in Kapasia: 800 trees expected to yield 40-45 tonnes
Island Agro Farm's growers expect to sell Tk 7-8 lakh of papaya after spending about Tk 2 lakh, with 50-60 kg a tree.
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Papaya, chilli and taro on one bigha: a Mirsarai farmer makes sorjan beds pay
At Katachhara in Mirsarai, Chattogram, agricultural entrepreneur Muslim Uddin grows papaya, year-round chilli and taro together on one bigha using the sorjan raised-bed method, and expects about Tk 5 lakh from the papaya alone.
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A job and 1,800 papaya trees: Panchbibi grower eyes Tk 25 lakh from a Tk 7 lakh orchard
Hedayet Hossain Shiplu of Bagjana Kuripara in Joypurhat's Panchbibi planted Shahi, hybrid and Nasi King varieties in December 2025 and has been harvesting since June; each tree yields 40-60 kg and ripe papaya sells at Tk 40-60 a kg; the district agriculture office advises him and neighbours are comi