Cabbage export to Singapore cheers Jessore farmers

Jessore farmers had been worrying at the sharp fall in cabbage price, but the recent initiative to export the winter vegetable to Singapore has brought smile to their faces. According to the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), an export firm, ‘City Impex’, collected cabbage from the farmers recently and started exporting it to Singapore after processing. The first consignment of 20,000 pieces of cabbage was exported to Singapore from the field of Shahbazpur in Sadar upazila last week. Jagoroni Chakra Foundation, a private organization, named and Solidaridad Network Asia are working with the farmers, the DAE and the export farm through a project named ‘SaFaL project’ took the initiative to export vegetables. ‘Safe vegetables’ weighing 74,314 kgs, including bottle gourd, green papaya, snake gourd, pointed gourd, raw banana, bean and eggplants were exported to Europe and Middle Eastern countries from September to December under their initiative. Processing zone A temporary ...