Bangladesh: Advanced flowering predicts bumper mango yield

Although there are a couple of weeks more to optimum time for setting flowers, some of the mango trees have started sprouting early in the Rajshahi region in the last few weeks.Mango trees are sprouting early at various places like Vatapara, Raipara, Kasiadanga, Police line, Malopara, Meherchandi and Bhadra in the city. But the extent of flowering is comparatively less than that of the normal time.Golam Mourtoza, 55, a mango trader of Baneswar village under Puthiya upazila, said that the farmers were seen very busy nursing mango trees at present to protect the flower from dropping.Usually, he added, mango flowers are not seen to sprout so early amid the cold temperature, rather the blooming of mango in some early varieties is seen to occur during the last week of January and continues till middle of March.Motaleb Hossain, a mango grower of Charghat upazila, said that he had over 200 mango trees in his orchard. He has cultivated a large variety of mangoes this season. He expects a ...