BSS, Panchagarh :
Cultivation of lemon is becoming popular among the farmers in all five upazilas of the district this year.
Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) office sources said a total of 250 bighas of land has been brought under lemon cultivation here.
Many farmers in the district have become self-reliant and changed their lifestyle through the lemon cultivation during the last few years. Farmers of the district have been cultivating various high yielding of lemon commercially, the sources said.
Hirmbo Chandra, a lemon cultivator of Shahapara village under Debiganj upazila, said, “I have been getting handsome profit through cultivating lemon on commercial basis for the last several years.”
Another lemon cultivator, Akter Ali, of Sabouspara village under Boda upazila said, “I have cultivated lemon on 3 bighas of land spending Taka 45,000. I am expecting to earn Taka 70,000 net profit from the produce after meeting all expenditure.”
