Sylhet Correspondent :
Varieties of early winter vegetables have started appearing in both local and wholesale markets here making both the sellers and buyers happy. Farmers in the region including the vast barind tract are successfully producing early varieties of winter vegetables like cauliflower, cabbage, radish, carrot, bit, turnip, tomato, leafy spinach, red spinach and receiving fair prices in the wholesale market.
Officials of Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) said almost 2,50,000 hectares of land has been brought under vegetables cultivation in the region this year. Production target has been set to around 21.5 tonnes from each hectare of land. Around, of 3.5 lakh tonnes of vegetables are expected to be produced in Sylhet region this season. Over one lakh people of 50 villages are involved in cultivating and selling different types of vegetables in the area. Aktar Ali, a farmer of Kamalbazar village under Dakshin Surma Upazila, said he spends about Taka 850 for cultivating cauliflower in one decimal of land and gets 1.5 to 2 mounds of cauliflower. The wholesale market price of cauliflower is between Taka 1,300 to 1,400 per mound. He said the farmers are making a profit of Taka 450 to 550 per decimal of land by cultivating early winter vegetables.
