date:Jan 15, 2019
ees are being planted along roads and in yards. Commercial cultivation has increased over the last 10 years too, Sattar Mandal, former vice chancellor of Bangladesh Agriculture University, told Prothom Alo. Fruits have contributed to the country's success in food security and had pushed it six places up in the world hunger index in three years, he added.
According to the AgricultureM, around a decade ago 56 varieties of fruit were cultivated and now this stands at 72. Some 12 more varieties are