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By Md Mamun Islam
 
RANGPUR, March 12, 2026 (BSS) - After extensive flowering, formation of the 
tender 'Haribhanga' variety of mangoes continues smoothly now amidst 
favorable climate conditions, predicting a bumper harvest of the fleshy and 
highly delicious fruit this season.
 
Officials and experts of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) are 
expecting a bumper harvest of Rangpur's Geographical Indication (GI) product 
'Haribhanga' mango, which has a huge demand in the country and abroad.
 
Amidst such predictions of a bumper harvest of the indigenous variety 
'Haribhanga' mango this season, business activities will soon begin for 
marketing the fiberless, fleshy and tasty seasonal fruit from next June.
 
Meanwhile, the first 44 mm rainfall of the season recorded in Rangpur on 
Thursday morning is being considered a tonic for good growth of the tender 
'Haribhanga' mango and its large size, which may bring good profits to the 
farmers this time.
 
Enthusiastic 'Haribhanga' mango farmers are now busy tending to their mango 
orchards and are dreaming of a bumper harvest and better profits like 
previous years.
 
Fruit traders from Dhaka, Gazipur, Narayanganj and other areas and local 
online mango traders will soon gather to buy in advance 'Haribhanga' mangoes 
grown on orchard trees in Mithapukur upazila of Rangpur, the home of 
'Haribhanga' mangoes.
 
Additional Director of the DAE for Rangpur agricultural region Krishibid Md 
Shirajul Islam said that after today's (Thursday) rains, the size and quality 
of 'Haribhanga' mangoes may improve further, which will be more profitable 
for farmers.
 
Although all varieties of mangoes are cultivated in the Rangpur agricultural 
region, in the last few years, Haribhanga mango has gained commercial fame in 
this region changing the living standard of farmers and common people. 
 
"Haribhanga mango has already been recognized as a GI product of Rangpur, 
which has created a huge demand for it locally and internationally," he said.
 
Farmers are generally producing around 38,000 tonnes to 40,000 tonnes of 
'Haribhanga' mango from their orchards in over 2,556 hectares of land every 
year in all five districts of Rangpur agricultural region.
 
"Of them, they produce about 30,000 tonnes of 'Haribhanga' mangoes from 
orchards in 1,950 hectares of land in Rangpur alone annually," Krishibid 
Islam said, adding that farmers have brought little more land under its 
cultivation this season.
 
Deputy Director of the Burirhat Horticulture Center of the DAE in Rangpur Dr 
Md Abu Sayem said that cultivation of 'Haribhanga' mango is expanding every 
year in Rangpur and other adjoining districts.
 
The mango is largely being cultivated in Podaganj, Khoragachh, Paikarerhat, 
Rukniganj, Tekani, Moyenpur, Kadamtala, Lalpukur, Shukurerhat, Shikarpur, 
Phulchowki, Tilakpara, Kashimpur, Ucha Balua, Matherhat and many other 
villages under Mithapukur upazila of Rangpur. 
 
The highly tasty mango is also being cultivated in dozens of villages under 
Badarganj, Sadar, Pirganj, Gangachara, Taraganj, Pirgachha, Kawnia upazilas 
of Rangpur district. 
 
Apart from this, cultivation of 'Haribhanga' mango is expanding fast in 
Parbatipur, Nababganj, Phulbari, Birampur and Chirirbandar upazilas of 
Dinajpur district.
 
The mango is also being cultivated on commercial basis in dozens of villages 
under all other seven upazilas of Rangpur and other places of Gaibandha, 
Kurigram, Lalmonirhat and Nilphamari districts under Rangpur agricultural 
region. 
 
"If the weather is favorable and proper care is taken, there will be a good 
yield of 'Haribhanga' mangoes this season and good profits will be made," Dr 
Sayem said.
 
While visiting several Haribhanga mango orchards in different villages of 
Rangpur, this BSS reporter found mango farmers busy watering the roots of the 
Haribhanga mango trees and sprinkling water on the tender mangoes on the 
trees.
 
Successful farmers Mostafizur Rahman, Nur Hossain and Mohammad Morsalin of 
Podaganj village Lutfar Rahman and Amjad Hossain of Tekani village under 
Mithapukur upazila predicted a bumper Haribhanga mango yield this season.
 
Abdur Rahim, a farmer from Paikarerhat village in the upazila, said that he 
has been earning huge profits and achieving self-reliance by cultivating the 
highly profitable 'Haribhanga' mangoes for the past 18 years. 
 
Md Habibur Rahman, a mango farmer from Lohanipara village in Badarganj 
upazila of Rangpur, said that he hopes that if the weather is favorable for 
the next two months, there will be a bumper harvest of 'Haribhanga' mangoes 
this season. 
 
Similarly, Abdus Salam from Akhirarhat, Jahangir Hossain and Nur Islam from 
other villages said that they have achieved self-reliance by cultivating very 
tasty 'Haribhanga' mangoes in their gardens for the past two decades.