BSS, Narsingdi :
Cultivation of Bangi fruit (kind of water melon) is gaining popularity in the district due to its good market price and less risk in production. Successful yield of Bangi brings substantial amount of money for the farmers.
Bangi is a delicious and nutritious fruit. It is generally cultivated in the char lands where scope of others crop cultivation is limited.
Hundreds of farmers in the char areas of Narsingdi Sadar, Raipura and Belabo upazilas have involved themselves in Bangi Cultivation in the vast areas of infertile char lands of Meghna and Arial Kha rivers for long years and they are becoming self-reliant.
The farmers of char villages are used to cultivate Bangi on commercial basis. With minimum financial involvement the farmers can harvest thousands of Bangi fruit worth about Tk 1,00,000 from per acre of land.
Abbas uddin, Deputy Director, Department of Agriculture Extension said over 1,000 acres of land have been brought under Bangi cultivation in the three char upazilas of the district. He said many poor farmers have changed their lot by growing Bangi.
Talking to BSS farmer Abdul Ali of Alokbali char said five to six hundred taka is needed to cultivate Bangi on one bigha of land . He said this year he cultivated four bighas of barren lands beside the Meghna river which cost him only Taka Taka 2500.
He hopes this year he can produce 4,000 to 5,000 pieces of Bangi worth about Taka 1,00,000 to 1,20,000 from his four bigha of land.
Most of the farmers termed that Bangi is a profitable fruit. Excessive rain and flood can destroy the lands of the fruit.
Cultivation of Bangi fruit (kind of water melon) is gaining popularity in the district due to its good market price and less risk in production. Successful yield of Bangi brings substantial amount of money for the farmers.
Bangi is a delicious and nutritious fruit. It is generally cultivated in the char lands where scope of others crop cultivation is limited.
Hundreds of farmers in the char areas of Narsingdi Sadar, Raipura and Belabo upazilas have involved themselves in Bangi Cultivation in the vast areas of infertile char lands of Meghna and Arial Kha rivers for long years and they are becoming self-reliant.
The farmers of char villages are used to cultivate Bangi on commercial basis. With minimum financial involvement the farmers can harvest thousands of Bangi fruit worth about Tk 1,00,000 from per acre of land.
Abbas uddin, Deputy Director, Department of Agriculture Extension said over 1,000 acres of land have been brought under Bangi cultivation in the three char upazilas of the district. He said many poor farmers have changed their lot by growing Bangi.
Talking to BSS farmer Abdul Ali of Alokbali char said five to six hundred taka is needed to cultivate Bangi on one bigha of land . He said this year he cultivated four bighas of barren lands beside the Meghna river which cost him only Taka Taka 2500.
He hopes this year he can produce 4,000 to 5,000 pieces of Bangi worth about Taka 1,00,000 to 1,20,000 from his four bigha of land.
Most of the farmers termed that Bangi is a profitable fruit. Excessive rain and flood can destroy the lands of the fruit.
