RANGPUR, Feb 24 (BSS): Sprouting in mango trees begins with the advent of the spring signalling bumper output of the popular fruit in all five districts of Rangpur agriculture region this season.
Officials of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) said mango trees in the orchards and homesteads have started wearing eye-catching yellowish looks with excellent sprouting amid favourable climatic conditions this year.
Farmers have already started taking care of their mango orchards and gardens with an expectation of getting excellent yield and more profits this time like in the previous years.
"Around 75 per cent of mango trees have already bloomed with a possibility of 95 per cent sprouting by the first week of March next," Deputy Director of the DAE at its regional office here Agriculturist Md. Moniruzzaman told the news agency on Sunday.
The sprouting process in mango trees started little late this time following a relatively longer winter amid foggy weather as the prevailing climatic conditions are highly suitable now for the process.
"Hundreds of farmers have started commercial basis mango farming and changed fortune after getting its repeated bumper production with lucrative price in recent years in the region," he said.
Farmers are expected to bring over 7,500 hectares of land under mango cultivation during the current season in Rangpur agriculture region where they cultivated the fruit on around 7,300 hectares of land during the last 2019-2020 fiscal year (FY).
Deputy Director of the DAE for Rangpur Dr. Md. Sarwarul Haque said farmers have already started taking extensive care of the blooming mango trees so that the fruit could grow in huge quantities leading to a bumper output.
"The farmers are mostly cultivating popular varieties of mango like 'Haribhanga', 'Mohanbhog', BARI-4, 'Gopalbhog', 'Lengra', 'Fazlee', 'Khirsapati', 'Chyatapori', 'Lakhna', 'Gourmoti', 'Amrapali' and 'Nakfazlee' in the region," he said.
He said field level officials of the DAE are assisting farmers and suggesting them for taking proper care of blooming mango trees at the flowering stage and controlling attacks by hoppers and other pests, if any, on mango flowers.
"If the climatic condition, fluctuation in temperatures, rainfall, attack by pests and insects remained within tolerable limits during the next few months, formation of mango would be excellent to yield bumper production this season," Haque said.
Farmer Mukul Shah of village Chand Kuthirdanga in Badarganj upazila of Rangpur said he has been cultivating highly tasty, popular, fibreless and local 'Haribhanga' mango on his orchards on 12 acres of land for the last 12 years.
"I am expecting massive sprouting followed by formation of tender mangoes in the trees to ultimately get a bumper production of the fruit this session from," he said.
Farmer Jahangir Alam of village Jarullapur Bakultala in Mithapukur upazila of Rangpur said sprouting continues in 'Haribhanga' mango trees of his orchard on around nine acres of land this year and hoped to get a better output this time.
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