Jhenidah farmer finds fortune in Thai plum
Cultivating Thai variety of plums has brought good profit to a grower in the district, who is now leading a happy life with his family.
The grower Abdul Alim is son of Hamiz Uddin of Debipur village under Chowgachha upazila of Jessore. He grows the fruit on leased land at Narendrapur village under Kaliganj upazila of Jhenidah.
Alim told this correspondent that he has been farming the plums for eight years and makes very good profit. He has built a brick house and purchased a motorbike, some plots of land and a solar power system, and has also saved money in a bank. The Thai variety has brought about a radical change in his life, he added.
Alim said he cultivated plums on 8.2 bighas of land at a cost of Tk 3.4 lakh this season, and earned Tk 2 lakh up to the end of January. He added that he will get profit of Tk 1.5 lakh this year if the weather is favourable up to March. Each plant bears three to four maunds per year, adding that he is selling the plums at Tk 20 to Tk 25 per kg this year.
Most growers harvest immature plums for getting quick benifit, so the price normally comes down due to lower quality, Alim said. If a cold-storage plant is set up in the upazila, the plum growers will get good prices, he added.
Aslam Hossain said he has been growing this plum seeing Alim's success. He cultivated plums on one bigha of land at a cost of Tk 50 thousand and has sold Tk 30 thousand worth of the crop up to end of January. He expects to sell the rest for Tk 1 lakh if the weather is good.
Akram Hossain said he cultivated the fruit on 15 decimals of land this year at a cost of Tk 30 thousand, adding that he will get profit of Tk 50 thousand, which is quite impossible by farming traditional crops.
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