BSS, Rangpur :
Cultivation of highly profitable lemon has been expanding fast bringing fortune to hundreds of farmers, common people and distressed women everywhere in Rangpur region in recent years.
After getting repeated bumper production with lucrative price round the year in recent times, the farmers have been showing interests in expanded cultivation of lemon in their orchards, homesteads and fallow lands in rural areas.
According to the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) and NGO sources, some 3,000 farmers have achieved self-reliance through lemon farming in the region to change their fortune by selling lemon at fair price in a hassle-free manner.
Horticulture Specialist of the DAE Khandker Md Mesbahul Islam said
cultivation of lemon has been expanding fast following its repeated bumper production in recent years, huge demand in the local markets with lucrative price round the year.
“Though most of the people have been farming lemon in their homesteads, many of the farmers have now cultivated lemon as live fences around their crop fields also to protect their crops from the harms of domestic animals to earn extra profits,” he said.
Retired schoolteacher Quasem Ali, of village Patrokhata Khondkerpara under Chilmari upazila in Kurigram has achieved success in farming lemon on his 12 decimals out of 48 decimal homestead croplands to earn over Taka eight lakh annually.
This season, Quasem Ali sold 22,000 pieces of his produced lemon at Taka 75,000 in a day as he sells at least 2.50 lakh pieces of lemon annually after distributing his produce among his relatives, neighbours and villagers.
“I mostly cultivate the local variety ‘Kagoji’, China and Duck Zamir varieties of lemons and consumption of the Duck Zamir variety is very beneficial for jaundice and cough patients and it also increases milk for the lactating mothers,” he said.
Quasem Ali also cultivates mango, jackfruit, black berry, litchi, papaya, coconut, olive, ‘baukul’, ginger, turmeric, pineapple, betel leaf, ‘pathorkuchi’, ‘amloki’, ‘horitoki’, ‘ol-kochu, ‘koromcha, ‘bashak’ and ‘ghritokumari as intercrops or relay crops Farmers Esahak Ali, Shahadat Hossain Rahim Uddin, Sohagi Khatun and Beauty Begum of different villages in Rangpur said they have been cultivating lemon as live fences in their crop fields, orchards and homesteads to earn extra profits every year.
According to Rangpur Regional Additional Director of DAE Zulfiquer Haider and Sadar Upazila Agriculture Officer Afzal Hossain, the low-cost lemon farming has become profitable to bring self-reliance to hundreds of farmers and common people.
They said the DAE has been providing assistance to the farmers in
exploring the tremendous prospect for expanding lemon cultivation in the orchards and homesteads to change their fortune and meet nutritional demand of the growing population.
Cultivation of highly profitable lemon has been expanding fast bringing fortune to hundreds of farmers, common people and distressed women everywhere in Rangpur region in recent years.
After getting repeated bumper production with lucrative price round the year in recent times, the farmers have been showing interests in expanded cultivation of lemon in their orchards, homesteads and fallow lands in rural areas.
According to the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) and NGO sources, some 3,000 farmers have achieved self-reliance through lemon farming in the region to change their fortune by selling lemon at fair price in a hassle-free manner.
Horticulture Specialist of the DAE Khandker Md Mesbahul Islam said
cultivation of lemon has been expanding fast following its repeated bumper production in recent years, huge demand in the local markets with lucrative price round the year.
“Though most of the people have been farming lemon in their homesteads, many of the farmers have now cultivated lemon as live fences around their crop fields also to protect their crops from the harms of domestic animals to earn extra profits,” he said.
Retired schoolteacher Quasem Ali, of village Patrokhata Khondkerpara under Chilmari upazila in Kurigram has achieved success in farming lemon on his 12 decimals out of 48 decimal homestead croplands to earn over Taka eight lakh annually.
This season, Quasem Ali sold 22,000 pieces of his produced lemon at Taka 75,000 in a day as he sells at least 2.50 lakh pieces of lemon annually after distributing his produce among his relatives, neighbours and villagers.
“I mostly cultivate the local variety ‘Kagoji’, China and Duck Zamir varieties of lemons and consumption of the Duck Zamir variety is very beneficial for jaundice and cough patients and it also increases milk for the lactating mothers,” he said.
Quasem Ali also cultivates mango, jackfruit, black berry, litchi, papaya, coconut, olive, ‘baukul’, ginger, turmeric, pineapple, betel leaf, ‘pathorkuchi’, ‘amloki’, ‘horitoki’, ‘ol-kochu, ‘koromcha, ‘bashak’ and ‘ghritokumari as intercrops or relay crops Farmers Esahak Ali, Shahadat Hossain Rahim Uddin, Sohagi Khatun and Beauty Begum of different villages in Rangpur said they have been cultivating lemon as live fences in their crop fields, orchards and homesteads to earn extra profits every year.
According to Rangpur Regional Additional Director of DAE Zulfiquer Haider and Sadar Upazila Agriculture Officer Afzal Hossain, the low-cost lemon farming has become profitable to bring self-reliance to hundreds of farmers and common people.
They said the DAE has been providing assistance to the farmers in
exploring the tremendous prospect for expanding lemon cultivation in the orchards and homesteads to change their fortune and meet nutritional demand of the growing population.
