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> Bumper yield of 'special variety' litchi in Kishoreganj
> Our correspondent, Kishoreganj
>
>
>
> Litchi being sorted for sale at Mongalbaria village. Photo:
STAR
> Litchi growers at remote Mongalbaria village of Pakundia upazila
in
> Kishoreganj district are eyeing a good profit as their special variety
of
> litchi with its attractive look and mouth watering taste has seen a
bumper
> yield this year.
>
> Farmers said they have started plucking litchi and selling it at
Tk
> 2000 per thousand litchis. Total sales in this season might exceed Tk 1
> crore, they said.
>
> Thicker pulp with small seed inside and special taste puts
Mongalbaria
> litchi in great demand in big cities including Dhaka, Chittagong and
Sylhet.
>
> Litchi traders from Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet rush to the
remote
> village to collect litchis in summer, the litchi-plucking season.
>
> There is no litchi orchard in the village. Litchi trees are seen
on
> both sides of kutcha (un-metalled) roads of the village.
>
> Litchi trees surround every open space in the village and there is
> hardly any homestead without several litchi trees.
>
> The residents of Mongabaria had a long tradition of growing tasty
> litchi but the Agriculture Extension Department (AED) provided training,
for
> the first time, to only 60 litchi growers there in 2007, growers said.
>
> An AED survey made two years ago found that there were 850 litchi
> trees (locals, however, put the number at about 1,500) of such special
> variety in the village, Upazila Agriculture Extension Officer (UAEO)
> Prosanta Kumar Saha said.
>
> In this season litchi growers can collect 6-8 thousand pieces of
> litchi from a tree in an average, he said.
>
> Touhid Mia, known as a good litchi grower at Mongalbaria, said he
> engaged 10 labourers to nurse the trees.
>
> He expects a profit of over two lakh taka as he will collect
litchi
> from 100 trees in this season, he said.
>
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