With onrush of huge sellers and purchasers the market of fazli, king
of mango, has gained momentum in Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj
districts, famous for mango production, on the last leg of the mango
season.
In addition to creating employment for over one and half lakh people,
transaction of more than Tk 1,500 crore has been made centering the
mango farming, trading and transporting during the peak season.
Large numbers of people are seen engaged in creating new mango
orchards on the cultivable lands in the vast barind tract and char
areas.
According to the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), there are
around 19 lakh mango trees on 25,000 hectares of land in the two
districts.
Deputy Director of DAE, Rajshahi Nurul Amin said that every of the
mango trees were bloomed immensely this season but many of those were
damaged due to adverse weather.
Despite of this, he said the DAE had set a target of production of 2.5
lakh tons of mango in the current season.
The businessmen are now getting optimum price of Fazli mango as all
other early varieties have almost disappeared from the market on the
last leg of the mango season. The traders and growers are also highly
satisfied with the outputs.
Now, Fazli mango is being sold at Tk 2,000 to Tk 2,400 per mound
according to size and quality at many of the markets like Shaheb
Bazar, Baneshwar, Charghat and Bagha of Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj
Sadar, Moharajpur, Ranihati, Kansat, Mobarakpur, Chowdala, Rohanpur,
Mollikpur and Bholahat of Chapapainawabganj.
Around 250 trucks are now transporting mango to different areas of the
country especially Dhaka, Chittagong, Chowmohani, Narayanganj, Comilla
and Feni everyday. Nurul Islam, a wholesaler of Kansat, told the
newsmen that the mango will be available till mid of next month.
Mozammel Hossain Tutul, General Secretary of Bholahat Mango
Foundation, informed that huge quantity of mango gets damaged every
year due to lack of processing and preservation facilities here.
In this context, he said additional employment scopes could be created
if processing factory is established. -BSS, Rajshahi
