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RANGPUR, April 10, 2026 (BSS) - After exceeding the set groundnut cultivation target, enthusiastic farmers in Rangpur agricultural region have achieved a bumper harvest by producing 12,221 tonnes of the cash crop in the 2025-2026 Rabi season.

At the same time, farmers are very happy to earn huge profits by getting an all-time high price of Taka 6,400 to Taka 6,600 per mound (40 kg) for their freshly harvested groundnut in the local market.

The Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) officials said that a target of producing 12,245 tonnes of groundnut from 5,736 hectares of land was set for all five districts in the region during the 2025-2026 Rabi season.  

"Enthusiastic farmers, however, had finally brought 5,748 hectares of land under its cultivation, exceeding the set farming target by 12 hectares of land" Additional Director of the DAE's Rangpur region Krishibid Md Shirajl Islam said. 

After completing harvest by the last week, farmers have produced 12,221 tonnes of groundnut at the average yield rate of 2.13 tonnes per hectare in all five districts of Rangpur, Gaibandha, Kurigram, Lalmonirhat and Nilphamari in this region.

Farmers are earning an all-time record net profit to the tune of Taka one-lakh by producing 28 to 32 mounds of groundnut per acre of land, spending Taka 40,000 to Taka 50,000 per acre as farming costs on an average this year in the region. 

Talking to BSS at Rangpur City Bazar, groundnut trader Mokhlesur Rahman said that wholesalers are buying newly harvested groundnuts from farmers at rates between Taka 6,400 and Taka 6,600 per mound.

Last year, farmers sold their newly harvested groundnut at rates between Taka 3,500 and Taka 4,000 per mound at this period of the season.

Farmers are getting bumper groundnut yields with pleasing prices following expanded cultivation of its high yielding varieties evolved by Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute (BARI) on the main lands and char areas. 

Md Mamunur Rashid, a PhD Fellow in the Department of Agricultural Extension at Dinajpur Haji Mohammad Danesh University of Science and Technology, said that farmers are expanding the low-cost groundnut farming and earning rewarding profits.

Both cultivation and production of groundnut are continuing to expand every year in Rangpur agricultural region in recent times following increasing demand of the cash crop in the country's boosting food industries.

"There is a bright potential to further increase groundnut production in the region by expanding peanut cultivation in the riverside char areas as well as in the mainland by adopting appropriate cropping patterns and mixed-relay cropping systems," he said. 

Talking to BSS, farmer couple Aminul Islam and Ummey Kulsum of village Char Taluk Shahbaz on the Teesta riverbed in Kawnia upazila of Rangpur said they had cultivated groundnut on two acres of sandy char lands this season. 

"After completing the harvest of the crop last week, we got a bumper production of 56 mounds of groundnut," Aminul Islam said, and hoped that they would earn a highest ever profit of Taka two-lakh, excluding production costs. 

Similarly, farmers Anwar Hossain and Nur Islam of Mohipur village in Gangachara upazila of Rangpur and Mohibur Rahman of Tambulpur village in Pirgachha upazila said that they too have received a bumper crop of groundnuts this time.

"We are now selling groundnuts at home to middlemen for Taka 6,000 to 6,200 and to wholesalers in big markets for Taka 6,400 to 6,600 per mound," said Noor Mohammad, a farmer from Char Biswanath village in Kawnia upazila of Rangpur district.