Rangpur farmers are content thanks to the huge crop of onions. The price for all the five districts within the Rangpur agriculture area are attractive and also. The officials of the Department of Agricultural Extension farmers have yielded 104,263 tons from the crop as compared with its production of 103.809 tons over the course of the Rabi season.
Market sources reported that the cost of locally grown onion remains between Taka 75-80 per kilogram in the local kitchen stores, despite the fact that it ranged between Taka 40 to 45 just a few months before.
The previous year, the farmers grew 90,970 tons of the crop over between 2019 and 2020 Rabi season. Then, they produced 66,886 tons throughout between the years 2018 and 2019 Rabi season, and 62,673 tonnes of the spice crop in the 2017-2018 Rabi season in the region.
[ Tk100 = EUR0.87 ]
Source: bssnews.net
Source: The Plantations International Agroforestry Group of Companies