BSS, Rangpur :
Litchi business has been creating huge economic activities and jobs for farm- labourers as harvesting, processing, marketing and business of the seasonal fruit getting momentum now in Rangpur division.
According to the farmers and market sources, harvest of the delicious fruit has been continuing with increasing supply, huge demand and better price in the local markets making both the litchi growers and traders happier this season.
Harvest of early varieties Bombay, Mozaffarpuri and Madrazi litchi
continues while high yielding and hybrid varieties like Bedana, China-3, China-4 and Golapi will start by the next week and late variety Kanthali litchi will be harvested by the next month.
Presently, the local varieties of litchi are being sold at rates between Taka 180 and 250 per every one hundred pieces and the half-ripen high yielding varieties at rates between Taka 350 and 400.
From the first week of June next, aristocrat varieties litchi like China-3, China-4, Bedana a Golapi will be traded daily at higher rates between Taka 800 and 1,000 for every 100 pieces to Dhaka and other parts of the country.
Litchi traders from Munshiganj, Tangail, Dhaka and other places have already purchased the orchards with China-3, China-4 and Bedana variety litchi for marketing those soon to the capital and other areas.
According to the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) sources, over 85 percent of litchi trees in over 1,000 small, medium and big-sized litchi orchards and homesteads on around 7,000 hectares of land bloomed massively this year.
It the climatic conditions remain favourable, about 45,000 tonnes of litchi would be produced in Dinajpur, Nilphamari, Lalmonirhat, Rangpur, Kurigram, Thakurgaon and Panchagarh districts in the division this season.
Horticulture Specialist Khondker Md Mesbahul Islam of the DAE predicted bumper production of litchi in the division following favourable climatic conditions this season as commercial basis litchi cultivation has already become popular.
“The farmers have cultivated Bedana, China-3, China-4, Bombay, Madrazi and Kanthali variety litchi in 667 orchards on 4,100 hectares of land this season alone in all 13 upazilas of Dinajpur district that produces the highest quantity of the fruit in the country,” he said.
Litchi growers Arman Hossain, Aiyub Ali, Atiar Rahman, Lokman Hossain, Lal Mohan and Abul Kalam Azad of different villages in Rangpur and Dinajpur districts said they are expecting bumper harvest of litchi to earn better profits.
Predicting bumper litchi production this season, Acting Regional
Additional Director of the DAE SM Ashraf Ali said hundreds of farmers have already achieved self-reliance through cultivating the seasonal fruit on commercial basis in northern Bangladesh.
Litchi business has been creating huge economic activities and jobs for farm- labourers as harvesting, processing, marketing and business of the seasonal fruit getting momentum now in Rangpur division.
According to the farmers and market sources, harvest of the delicious fruit has been continuing with increasing supply, huge demand and better price in the local markets making both the litchi growers and traders happier this season.
Harvest of early varieties Bombay, Mozaffarpuri and Madrazi litchi
continues while high yielding and hybrid varieties like Bedana, China-3, China-4 and Golapi will start by the next week and late variety Kanthali litchi will be harvested by the next month.
Presently, the local varieties of litchi are being sold at rates between Taka 180 and 250 per every one hundred pieces and the half-ripen high yielding varieties at rates between Taka 350 and 400.
From the first week of June next, aristocrat varieties litchi like China-3, China-4, Bedana a Golapi will be traded daily at higher rates between Taka 800 and 1,000 for every 100 pieces to Dhaka and other parts of the country.
Litchi traders from Munshiganj, Tangail, Dhaka and other places have already purchased the orchards with China-3, China-4 and Bedana variety litchi for marketing those soon to the capital and other areas.
According to the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) sources, over 85 percent of litchi trees in over 1,000 small, medium and big-sized litchi orchards and homesteads on around 7,000 hectares of land bloomed massively this year.
It the climatic conditions remain favourable, about 45,000 tonnes of litchi would be produced in Dinajpur, Nilphamari, Lalmonirhat, Rangpur, Kurigram, Thakurgaon and Panchagarh districts in the division this season.
Horticulture Specialist Khondker Md Mesbahul Islam of the DAE predicted bumper production of litchi in the division following favourable climatic conditions this season as commercial basis litchi cultivation has already become popular.
“The farmers have cultivated Bedana, China-3, China-4, Bombay, Madrazi and Kanthali variety litchi in 667 orchards on 4,100 hectares of land this season alone in all 13 upazilas of Dinajpur district that produces the highest quantity of the fruit in the country,” he said.
Litchi growers Arman Hossain, Aiyub Ali, Atiar Rahman, Lokman Hossain, Lal Mohan and Abul Kalam Azad of different villages in Rangpur and Dinajpur districts said they are expecting bumper harvest of litchi to earn better profits.
Predicting bumper litchi production this season, Acting Regional
Additional Director of the DAE SM Ashraf Ali said hundreds of farmers have already achieved self-reliance through cultivating the seasonal fruit on commercial basis in northern Bangladesh.
