Lemon cultivation gaining popularity in Panchagarh

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BSS, Panchagarh :
Cultivation of lemon is becoming popular among farmers in all five upazilas of Panchagarh district due to good production along with fair prices.
Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) office said a total of 250 bighas of land have been brought under the lemon cultivation this year in the five upazilas.
Many farmers in the district have become self-reliant and changed their lot through the lemon cultivation during the last few years.
Farmers of Panchagarh district have been cultivating different types of high yielding lemon varieties commercially.
Hirmbo Chandra, a lemon grower of Shahapara village under Debiganj upazila, said, “I have been getting handsome profit through cultivating lemon on commercial basis for the last several years.”

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