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What workedA capsicum grower and cooperative chairman in Kumarkhali, Kushtia, in a Prothom Alo report · Started in 2024

2.2 lakh taka on two bighas of capsicum, four lakh of profit, and 30 farmers following

Two bighas of Indra Gold capsicum in 2024 cost 220,000 taka and returned about 400,000 in profit. The following season 30 farmers of the village put roughly 10 lakh taka into 10 bighas between them.

This man chairs a farmers' cooperative at Niamotbariya village in Kumarkhali, Kushtia, and planted two bighas of Indra Gold capsicum in 2024. It cost 220,000 taka and returned about 400,000 in profit. The variety runs a 120-day cycle and starts fruiting roughly 60 days after transplanting. His result pulled in the neighbours: the following season 30 farmers of the village put about 10 lakh taka into 10 bighas collectively. One of them sold 2,000 kg in a single week at 150-200 taka a kilo, worth 300,000. Between them the group expects 14,000 kg worth 21-22 lakh taka over two months, which is an expectation rather than completed sales.

Lessons

  1. 1.Capsicum costs over a lakh taka a bigha to plant, far more than ordinary vegetables, but the money turns over in about four months
  2. 2.Farming it as a thirty-member group let a village of smallholders reach a volume buyers would come for, instead of each chasing buyers alone

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