date:Sep 29, 2020
Many people in Bangladesh are finding it difficult to purchase fruits owing to the high prices. According to Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (Bari), the country has a demand of 11.68 million tons of fruits. There are 5.07 million tons of 70 types of fruits produced at 160,000 hectares of land less than 1% of the total cultivable land in the country. This puts the demand deficit at 6.6 million tons.
Recently, in retail fruit shops at Mirpur and Karwan Bazar and some super shops in