Growers, traders bet big on mango trade this season

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Growers, traders bet big on mango trade this season

Both gardeners and businesses are betting on a good mango trade this season after two years of pandemic-induced losses. Though the flowering is less this season in few regions, existing little fruits have been generating hopes to the farmers and traders in a lockdown-free normal trading - worth Tk

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Growers, traders bet big on mango trade this season​

Yasir Wardad | Published: April 17, 2022 09:27:00

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Both gardeners and businesses are betting on a good mango trade this season after two years of pandemic-induced losses.

Though the flowering is less this season in few regions, existing little fruits have been generating hopes to the farmers and traders in a lockdown-free normal trading - worth Tk 60 billion - this year.

Above 1.1 million tonnes of mango are expected to be produced on 0.12 million hectares of commercial gardens in Rajshahi, Chapainawabganj, Naogaon, Natore, Pabna, Rangpur, Satkhira and parts of hilly districts of Chattogram division, according to the Depart-ment of Agricultural Extension (DAE).

Apart from the commercial farms, households are also expecting another 1.4-1.5 million tonnes of the juicy fruit this year from homestead trees, said DAE.

According to the Department of Agricul-tural Marketing (DAM), chambers of commerce and industries of the respective mango districts and Bangladesh Mango Producer Merchants Association (BMPMA), mango worth Tk 60 billion is expected to be traded in 2022 from the commercial farms if the weather remains sound for the next two months.

The mango tourism has already started in full swing in Chapainawab-ganj, Naogaon, Rajshahi, Rangpur, Satkhira and Pabna districts as traders across the country flocked to the regions much earlier to book the trees which would bear fruits in the May-August period, said insiders.

"I've already sold out mangoes of two of my gardens to a Dhaka-based trader," said Kabirul Biswas, a garden owner at Nachol in Chapainawabganj.

Mr Biswas said he had sold the gardens on six hectares of land at Tk 0.95 million in the last week of March.

He said last year (2021) he was forced to sell mangoes at only Tk 0.35 million in the local market amid absence of traders from Dhaka, Chattogram and other areas due to lockdown.
And the sale was below Tk 0.1 million in 2020 during the first lockdown period, he mentioned.

The mango capital Chapainawabganj had a target to produce 0.304 million tonnes from its 38,100 hectares of commercial farms this year, said DAE.

Md Nazrul Islam, DAE deputy director in Chapainawabganj, said the amount of flowers on the trees was less this year compared to the last year. If the existing buds on the trees become matured in absence of any natural disaster, gardeners could still gain much from the fruits, he said.

Production might be above 0.25 million tonnes if the weather doesn't betray, he added.

Naogaon has emerged as the highest mango producing district with above 0.4 million tonnes of output from its 29, 100 hectares of commercial gardens, said DAE.

 

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According to the Department of Agricul-tural Marketing (DAM), chambers of commerce and industries of the respective mango districts and Bangladesh Mango Producer Merchants Association (BMPMA), mango worth Tk 60 billion is expected to be traded in 2022 from the commercial farms if the weather remains sound for the next two months.

Bold part: Tk60 billion is a big sum of money in terms of dollars as well. It is about $706 million. It is quite big.

 

[Azadkashmir]

nobody ever talks bout the workers well being do they get first on best fruit n veg or scraps at the end. i know in pakistan all best is for export, scrap for those that labored tears.

 

[AmiEktaKharapChele]

nobody ever talks bout the workers well being do they get first on best fruit n veg or scraps at the end. i know in pakistan all best is for export, scrap for those that labored tears.

Still better than starving with no job.

 

[Azadkashmir]

Still better than starving with no job.

i agree partially. but it wud be better to burn the crops n make boss lose millions.

Still better than starving with no job.

by the way are you willing to accept a slave job.?

 

[bluesky]

nobody ever talks bout the workers well being do they get first on best fruit n veg or scraps at the end. i know in pakistan all best is for export, scrap for those that labored tears.

In BD, people are not so unfair and laborers cannot be cheated. A day's wage is almost fixed but with seasonal fluctuations. The rate is decided before working as seasonal laborers.

Moreover, many laborers own land properties which they tilt and produce foods. They earn extra money by working as helping hands.

Even Indian laborers from Tripura enter border to come to BD during the harvest time. They live in the outer rooms, eat three or more times, and work for more than two months each harvest.

They get all the money as agreed at the time of employment while leaving. So, they keep coming back two or three times a year.

 

[AmiEktaKharapChele]

i agree partially. but it wud be better to burn the crops n make boss lose millions.

Rich and Successful = Bad, did I get it right ?

 

[Azadkashmir]

Rich and Successful = Bad, did I get it right ?

get wat right?

 

[Destranator]

nobody ever talks bout the workers well being do they get first on best fruit n veg or scraps at the end. i know in pakistan all best is for export, scrap for those that labored tears.

I agree with your concern. For a country like BD or Pak, low wage labour intensive industries such as garments are required to keep people from starving. We are not in a position to fully automate as we would not have enough jobs - something idiot Mullahs should have thought of before damaging these countries by encouraging breeding like rats.
We have to tolerate wage slavery until:
- our labour force is educated and trained enough to bear the brunt of industrialisation. Skilled wokers can take up well paying new jobs both locally and overseas.
- the country has attained a strong industrial base where job loss from automation would have a limited impact due to abundance of well paying jobs
- population has shrunk to an extent

 

[Azadkashmir]

I agree with your concern. For a country like BD or Pak, low wage labour intensive industries such as garments are required to keep people from starving. We are not in a position to fully automate as we would not have enough jobs - something idiot Mullahs should have thought of before damaging these countries by encouraging breeding like rats.
We have to tolerate wage slavery until:
- our labour force is educated and trained enough to bear the brunt of industrialisation. Skilled wokers can take up well paying new jobs both locally and overseas.
- the country has attained a strong industrial base where job loss from automation would have a limited impact due to abundance of well paying jobs
- population has shrunk to an extent

partial blame to mullahs but you cant blame them entirely, they are not oxford educated unlike the elites secular dogs who use their education to manipulate the masses.

 

[Destranator]

partial blame to mullahs but you cant blame them entirely, they are not oxford educated unlike the elites secular dogs who use their education to manipulate the masses.

Secular "civil society" clowns are also to blame but they are not the key culprits when it comes to overpopulation in both Pak and BD.

 

[Azadkashmir]

Secular "civil society" clowns are also to blame but they are not the key culprits when it comes to overpopulation in both Pak and BD.

they are the key culprits they are the government in control of investments etc . mullah is not.

 

[Bilal9]

they are the key culprits they are the government in control of investments etc . mullah is not.

Investments in a country are not controlled by secular people, they are either attracted (or not) to a country by the level of affordability of labor and the amount of conservatism and relative levels of (in)stability (which are factors controlled by Mullahs).

One de-stabilizing factor is whether women are allowed to work and in what numbers for basic low-value addition industries like apparel and shoes (among several other basic industries). This is unfortunate - but anti-Muslim propaganda has made it this way by way of example.

Fourteen year olds in our desi countries railing against "chaddi-making" are SO IGNORANT. They supposed they'd make the leap to making computers bypassing low wage stuff. Doesn't work that way.

This is how Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, China all came up the ladder of progress before they went into other higher value addition higher wage industrial sectors. Making toys, wigs, small gift items, cheap electronics are some other industries as staples where women solely worked. Bangladesh is following the same pattern.

I don't see Billions of Chinese investments rushing to Afghanistan. There are other factors for that too - but Mullah factor is a huge detraction factor. Just saying...

 

[Azadkashmir]

Investments in a country are not controlled by secular people, they are either attracted (or not) to a country by the level of affordability of labor and the amount of conservatism and relative levels of (in)stability (which are factors controlled by Mullahs).

One de-stabilizing factor is whether women are allowed to work and in what numbers for basic low-value addition industries like apparel and shoes (among several other basic industries). This is unfortunate - but anti-Muslim propaganda has made it this way by way of example.

Fourteen year olds in our desi countries railing against "chaddi-making" are SO IGNORANT. They supposed they'd make the leap to making computers bypassing low wage stuff. Doesn't work that way.

This is how Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, China all came up the ladder of progress before they went into other higher value addition higher wage industrial sectors. Making toys, wigs, small gift items, cheap electronics are some other industries as staples where women solely worked. Bangladesh is following the same pattern.

I don't see Billions of Chinese investments rushing to Afghanistan. There are other factors for that too - but Mullah factor is a huge detraction factor. Just saying...

if only you read western technology and soviet economic development and read major jordan diary

china/russia/germany have had a direct technology transfer unlike muslim /latin countries
i would class iran as true innovator of all nations, second would be japan. china i do respect but still had direct tech transfer but they had to do it very low wages. the rest cheated they didnt do garments then to computers, they went straight to computers with education to bring them up to the level. they all should thank usa behind close doors for helping build them up as a super power enemy.

zardari/sharifs are not mullah but bankrupted pakistan severely no mullah could do that.