Ujjal Profits From Tomato Farming in Mirsarai
Farmers in Mirsarai, Chattogram, led by Ujjal Majumder, are earning well from summer hybrid tomatoes at a time when tomato prices are high.
Farmers in Mirsarai, Chattogram, led by Ujjal Majumder, are earning well from summer hybrid tomatoes at a time when tomato prices are high.
Mosharraf Hossain of Shibganj in Chapainawabganj turned to Saudi date palms after losing money on mangoes and now expects to sell Tk 15 lakh worth of dates this year.
Taro farmers in Mirsarai, Chattogram, expect to sell Tk 6.5 crore worth of taro this season, most of which has already gone to market.
Guava traders crowd the roadside canals leading to Bhimruli in Jhalokati, where prices are better this year but drought-hit flowering has cut the harvest.
Young entrepreneur Md Omar Sharif has become the first to grow avocado on trial in Mirsarai, and now plans to expand and sell seedlings.
Md Nurul Alam, who worked in IT, is growing desert dates commercially on the hills of Matiranga in Khagrachhari.
A farmer in his sixties in Kaliganj, Gazipur, has drawn crowds with sweet grapes on about a bigha of trellises, once mocked by his neighbours.
Summer watermelon has been grown in Mirsharai for the first time, with eight farmers in eight unions selling fruit at Tk 60-80 a kg.
Lotkon, once an unvalued wild fruit of the hills, is now in wide demand, and farmers in Khagrachhari are turning to growing it commercially.
A development worker in Rowangchhari, Bandarban, who planted dragon fruit as a hobby in 2020 now has more than 1,600 plants on five acres and dreams of crore-taka earnings.
A Gazipur farmer who planted three foreign mulberry varieties on trial has had a strong first harvest and plans to farm them commercially.
A giant mango from the Sultan of Brunei's orchard, brought to Magura in 2014, has become the district's signature variety and is spreading nationwide.
After the success of Amrapali, farmers in the Khagrachhari hills are growing colourful foreign mangoes that sell for Tk 600 to 900 a kg.