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RANGPUR, Feb 5: Grape cultivation is gradually gaining popularity in the northern districts. Grape-growers are earning handsomely selling their products.
According to the Agriculturalists, the soil and climate of Dinajpur, Rangpur, Thakurgaon, Saidpur, Nilphamari and Parbatipur are suitable for grape cultivation.
The local growers say that proper training and other financial and technical assistance can pave the way for large-scale commercial production of grapes across the northern region. It would be financially beneficial to the farmers, if they could cultivate grapes on commercial basis, they added.
Presently grapes are being cultivated only by a limited number of people of both gender, due to non-availability of required seeds and other facilities.
A grower told the FE that he had been cultivating grapes in his house for a number of years and was selling them at a good price.
Growers say much of the grapes now produced in the areas belong to the moderate grade variety called 'Jatka'. They also cultivate a number of high-grade varieties, like per, black rubi, cardinal, blue variety, etc. These local varieties are comparatively sweeter in taste than the imported ones, they claimed.
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