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By Md Mamun Islam
 
RANGPUR, Feb 23, 2026 (BSS) – A bumper harvest of the popular fruit is primarily predicted for the current season as mango trees bloom profusely, delighting farmers in all five districts of the Rangpur agricultural region.
 
Officials of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) said that with the arrival of spring, mango trees in gardens and homesteads have started to take on an impressive yellow color and have blossomed with beautiful buds.
 
“Enthusiastic farmers have already started taking care of their blossoming mango trees. They are expecting excellent yields and more profits this season,” said Md Shirajul Islam, Additional Director of DAE's Rangpur region. 
 
About 85 percent of mango trees have already bloomed and 95 percent of mango trees are likely to sprout by the first week of March this season.
 
The flowering process of mango trees has started on time this season, despite the relatively moderate to long winter and foggy weather, and the current climate is very suitable for this process. 
  
“Hundreds of farmers have started commercial mango cultivation in five districts of the region after getting bumper harvests every year and the recent turnaround in their fortunes due to the lucrative prices of mangoes,” Shirajul Islam said.
 
Farmers are likely to bring around 7,000 hectares of land under mango cultivation during the current season in the region and produce over 90,000 tonnes of mangoes.
 
Deputy Director of the Burirhat Horticulture Center of the DAE in Rangpur Dr Md Abu Sayem said that farmers are mostly cultivating popular varieties of mangoes like ‘Haribhanga’, ‘Mohanbhog’, BARI-4, ‘Gopalbhog’, ‘Lengra’, ‘Fazlee’, ‘Khirsapati’, ‘Chyatapori’, ‘Lakhna’, ‘Gourmoti’, ‘Amrapali’ and ‘Nakfazlee’ in the region.   
 
Although all types of mangoes are cultivated in this region, the Haribhanga mango has been recognized as a GI product and the mango has gained commercial fame in the region and the entire country.
 
“Haribhanga mango cultivation has changed the economic standard of living of hundreds of the people of Rangpur and there is a huge demand for this mango in the country and abroad,” he said. 
 
He praised the DAE officials for providing assistance to the farmers and advising them to take proper care of the mango trees during flowering and control the attack of grasshoppers and other pests on the mango flowers, if any. 
 
“If the climatic conditions, temperature fluctuations, rainfall, insect and pest attacks remain within tolerable limits for the next few months, the structure of the mango will be smooth and excellent so that a bumper yield can be obtained,” Sayem said.
 
Talking to BSS, farmers Abdur Rahman, Litan Mian and Jahangir Alam of village Jarullapur Bakultala in Mithapukur upazila of Rangpur said they have been cultivating ‘Haribhanga’ mango in their orchard on nine to 16 acres of land for the last 18 years.
 
“The budding in mango trees continues superbly now predicting a bumper production of the fruit this season,” said Jahangir, and hoped that each of them are expecting to earn a net profit of Taka 15 to 18 lakh, excluding all farming expenditure.
 
Orchard owners Mostafizur Rahman of Podaganj, Amjad Hossain of Tekani and Abdur Rahim of Paikarerhat villages under Mithapukur upazila are hoping that excellent budding in mango trees would lead to a bumper production of the fruit this season.
 
Farmer Azizar Rahman of village Sangkarpur Mistripara in the same upazila said excellent budding in his 12 varieties of high yielding, tasty and popular varieties of mango trees has made him happy at this stage.
 
“I am earning excellent returns every year for the last 16 years from my mango orchard where seven labourers are currently working to take extensive care of the blooming mango trees,” he said.