SOURCE: Shamsujjoha Polash, Daily Bangladesh
TRANSLATION: Freshplaza
There are mango orchards on 2,304 hectares in Chuadanga district, in Bangladesh’ western Khulna Division. Among these, there are mango orchards on 720 hectares in Sadar subdistrict, 220 hectares in Alamdanga, 739 hectares in Damurhuda, and 625 hectares in Jibannagar subdistrict. There are around 1 million mango trees in total in Chuadanga district. Among them, there are various varieties of mango trees including Himsagar, Amrapali, Langra, Bombay, Fazli, and Mallika. Half of them are Amrapali varieties of mango trees.
Bivas Chandra Saha, Deputy Director of Chuadanga District Agricultural Extension Office, said that under the supervision of the Department of Agriculture and the efforts of the farmers, there was a bumper yield of mangoes in Chuadanga last season. “We are expecting a bumper crop in the current season as well,” he predicted.