In the Rangpur agriculture region, growers are delighted by a bumper garlic yield during the last Rabi season, accompanied by fair prices. Officials of the Department of Agricultural Extension said that a target of producing 28,399 tons of garlic was fixed from 3,353 hectares of land for all five districts in the region during the last Rabi season.
However, farmers cultivated garlic on 3,470 hectares of land, less by only 65 hectares of land against the fixed farming target.
Farmers produced 9,275 tons of garlic from 1,177 hectares of land in Rangpur, 2,503 tons from 350 hectares in Gaibandha, 4,813 tons from 630 hectares in Kurigram, 3,821 tons from 396 ha in Lalmonirhat and 7,565 tons from 917 ha of land in Nilphamari.
Source: newagebd.net