Kapasia's litchis going to different regions
Asadullah Masum Kapasia ( Gazipur)
This year, litchi farmers in Kapasia are in fear of crop failure due to drought and continuous heat wave. Kapasia's litchis have a special reputation throughout the country as they arrive in the market early every year.
Litchi farmers said that due to lack of timely rain this year, various problems have arisen in the litchi harvest. Whenever you visit litchi gardens in different parts of the upazila, you will see bunches of litchis. There are a variety of sweet and juicy varieties of litchis in the gardens.
These gardens are filled with a feast of Bombay, Kalipuri, China-3 and Desi litchis. When visiting various litchi gardens in Durgapur Union, including Raniganj Bazar, Baraigaon, Barachala, Fulbaria, Nashera, Nazar, and Raunat villages of the upazila, it was seen that farmers are preparing to send litchis collected from the gardens to different parts of the country. Farmers say that 4-5 trucks full of litchis, including CNG, pickups, are going to different parts of the country from this area every day.
There are two or three litchi trees everywhere on the side of the road, in the courtyards of houses and in the locality. It is a tradition of this area to have a litchi tree in every house. In addition, a litchi festival is going on next to these large and small litchi gardens. Ripe litchis are carefully plucked from the trees, cared for and the garden owners, lessees and workers are busy counting and marketing those litchis. Everyone from children to the elderly are selling litchis on both sides of the road in Raniganj Bazar. Vehicles are almost parked on the road and buying those litchis from them. They are buying and selling at retail and wholesale prices as they wish.
Again, litchis were being sold at wholesale prices. There are rows of bamboo baskets full of litchis in them. And in those bamboo baskets, there is a bed of green leaves. The red and green litchis in those baskets are catchi
