Colombo lemon farming changes Narsingdi unemployed youths’ fate in Bangladesh

Published 2021년 5월 5일

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In the past decade, unemployed educated youths in Narsingdi district, Bangladesh, have found success through the cultivation of Calombo Lemon in high land areas. This initiative, backed by the Department of Agriculture Extension, has led to the establishment of 50 new lemon orchards across four upazilas, covering 480 hectares. The district is on track to produce over 5,200 metric tons of lemon this year, with plans to export over 2,000 metric tons. The Calombo lemon tree requires high fallow lands and can yield 50-60 mounds of lemon per bigha. The cultivation has not only brought economic benefits but also created job opportunities, with each tree potentially employing two people for leaf plucking and maintenance. The lemon is valued for its unique taste and demand in both local and international markets, particularly in Europe and the Middle East.
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A number of unemployed educated youths have changed their fortune by farming Calombo Lemon in the high lands of Shibpur, Belabo, Monohardi and Raipura upazilas of Narsingdi district in the last ten years. The unemployed youths have started cultivation of Calombo lemon in small scale on experimental basis in four upazilas of the district and achieved remarkable success. Their success encourages many others to cultivate and raise orchards of the juicy and extraordinary flavor fruit. Seeing the interest of the farmers and found climate and soil of the district suitable for Calombo lemon cultivation, the Department Agriculture Extension (DAE) on 2012 has taken a program to cultivate export quality lemon in four upazilas- Shibpur, Belabo, Monohardi and Raipura of the district. Under the program, a total of 50 new orchards of Calombo lemon (each orchard spread one bigha) were set up in the four upazilas of the district. The DAE supplied 160 sapling of Calombo lemon to each grower of the ...
Source: DhakaTribune

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