Mehedi Hasan Palash's Jujube Orchard

About

Md. Mehedi Hasan Palash, a farmer in Tala upazila of Satkhira, grows an early sweet-sour variety of jujube (kul) on about six and a half bighas in Baiguni and Shakdah villages. The agriculture unit of the NGO Unnayan Prochesta provided saplings, fertiliser, tillage, irrigation, labour costs and technical support. By his account one bigha costs about Tk 30,000 to 35,000 and sells about Tk 1.5 lakh in the first year; in the second year costs are much lower and sales reach about Tk 2 lakh. At first 170–200 saplings are planted per bigha, thinned to 100–120 in the second year, which raises the yield. By January 2022 he had sold about Tk 2.3 lakh worth of jujube. According to the NGO's agriculturist, because the fruit came early, growers sold it at a market rate of Tk 90 to 130.

Products and services

• Early sweet-sour jujube (kul)

  The report gives a general market rate of Tk 90–130 for growers (unit not stated); not this orchard's own price

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