Farming of beans, one of the delicious and nutritious vegetables, has been gaining popularity everywhere in Rajshahi region including its vast Barind tract for the last couple of years as many of the farmers built their fortunes through the cash crop farming.
In the wake of gradually mounting demands commercial farming of the vegetable has also been rising in the region.
Growers are seen getting lucrative prices of the harvested vegetable besides other winter vegetables making the consumers in general happy at present.
Piarul Islam, a farmer of Dharampur village under Godagari upazila, has become successful in bean farming that has made him solvent.
“I had earned a profit of around Taka 60,000 after cultivating the vegetable on ten katha of land last year,” he said with a smiling face.
He has cultivated the vegetable on one bigha of land with setting up stages made of bamboo sticks this season and has been selling the crop for the last couple of weeks at lucrative price.
Islam said farmers spend around Taka 35,000 to 40,000 for cultivating beans on one bigha of land and get a yield of 150 to 200 maunds from per bigha on an average.
Babul Akter, 56, another farmer of Purakhali village, has cultivated the crop on 12 katha of land this year after getting success on four katha last year.
Abdul Mazid, 35, a farmer of Soipara village under Mohanpur upazila in the district, has already sold beans valued around Taka 85,000 from his farming field in the current season. He has become delighted with the good yield and lucrative market prices of the vegetable.
Mazid has cultivated the vegetable on around two bigha of land commercially. Each kilogram of the vegetable is being sold at Taka 50-60 from his farming field directly at present while it is being sold at Taka 70-80 in retail markets.
He’s hoping to sell beans worth over Taka two lakh from his field this season.
Large numbers of farmers like Abdul Mazid are now engaged in bean cultivation commercially considering its economic prospect after the best uses of modern technologies and high yielding varieties like Ghritakanchan and Rupbhan.
While visiting some farming areas of the region like Huzripara, Chowberia, Darusha, Rajabari, Haripur and Pakri recently the farmers were seen nursing their bean-field with much enthusiasm.
