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Winter vegetables bring smile on farmers face


Published : 18 Nov 2019 08:15 PM | Updated : 07 Sep 2020 12:29 AM

When the acridity of onion is bringing tears for people across the country, harvesting the early winter vegetables has given farmers a chance to smile. Farmers in the country are busy cultivating early winter vegetables for getting lucrative profit as the earlier they can market their produce the more profit they can earn. 

Vegetable farming brings smile on farmers face here as they are becoming financially solvent by cultivating various types of vegetables, meeting its rising demand with increasing population. Farmers in Bangladesh are successfully producing early varieties of winter vegetables like cauliflower, cabbage, radish, carrot, beet, turnip, tomato, leafy spinach, red spinach and receiving fair prices in the wholesale markets.

The farmers are interested in vegetable cultivation as they have been gaining more profit during the last couple of years. Farmers are cultivating vegetables on fallow lands and homesteads along with farm land, increasing its production which is changing the economic condition of local farmers.

Bangladesh's accomplishments in transforming its agricultural sector into one of the most productive farm economies in all of South Asia is a major development success story. Bangladesh is primarily an agrarian economy. Agriculture is the single largest producing sector of economy since it comprises about 32% of the country's GDP and employing around 63% of the total labour force. 

In the rural areas agricultural land holdings are already small, estimated as 0.68 ha per household on the average Bangladeshi diets lack essential amino acids, fats and minerals, and vitamins causing widespread mal nutrition mainly due to meager of around 60 g daily per capita availability of vegetables against the required amount of 300 g as per the dieticians. Government of Bangladesh Government has called for a departure from “rice-led” growth to a more diversified production base and now across the country one can see the changes in famers’ priority for cultivating traditional crops like rice and potato.