Farmers are uploading cauliflowers on trucks befre transportation to Dhaka. The photo was taken from Mogalhat Market in Lalmonirhat district — FE Photo LALMONIRHAT, Feb 24: The farmers of Lalmonirhat have achieved bumper production of winter vegetables this season due to favourable weather.
Farmers have earned a handsome amount of money through producing and selling cauliflowers this season.
The farmers who cultivated early varieties of vegetables earned a large amount of money.
Mogalhat, Durakuti, Kornapur, Vatibari, Khulaghat of Sadar upazila and Kamalabari, Velabari, Hajiganj and Kumrirhat area of Adimari upazila, Chaparhat and Chandropur Lohakhuchi of Kaliganj upazila are famous for vegetable production. The farmers of this region have changed their socioeconomic condition through farming of various vegetables for the last two decades.
The total area is surrounded by the neighbouring country India. Once most people of this region were involve with illegal trading and smuggling, but now they are busy farming vegetables.
Every year, several hundreds of trucks loaded with cauliflower send to Dhaka, Sylhet and Cumilla.
Wholesale traders and middlemen are being taken cauliflowers to different parts of the country during the pick season.
Ukila Begum, a farmer of Karnapur Chawratari village of Sadar upazila, cultivates various vegetables every year.
She has cultivated vegetables on 30 bighas of land this current season. "Cauliflower production at her field is very much satisfactory," she said.
Her husband said they spent Tk 5 lakh on vegetable farming on 30 bighas of land and earned nearly Tk 10 lakh from selling cauliflowers this season.
Already they have sold all early varieties of cauliflowers at a handsome price.
Within a week, they will start harvesting late variety cauliflower.
She is hoping of earning a good price as the demand for vegetables is still high in the market.
Like Ukila Begum and Shajol Mia, many farmers of these areas earned handsome money by producing cauliflowers.
Another farmer, Moslem, cultivated vegetables on 15 bighas of land while Pappu on 8 bighas and Nur Islam of this village on nearly 20 bighas.
According to the Department of Agriculture and Extension (DAE), farmers have cultivated various vegetables on 6,530 hectares of land this current season in five upazilas of the district.
Soyada Shifatzahan, acting deputy director at the DAE in Lalmonirhat, said the soil of this area is very much suitable for farming of various vegetables.
Farmers are changing their socioeconomic condition through vegetable farming. This year they have got fair prices of all their vegetables.
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