Vegetable price slump

Four bottle gourds for one taka in Atwari, so farmers are cutting down their vines

After a bumper crop in Atwari, Panchagarh, bottle gourds fetch Tk 2 to 5 each at the field and in places four sell for one taka, while the same gourds cost Tk 20 to 30 in shops; one farmer spent Tk 60,000-70,000 on 40 decimals and has earned Tk 3,000.