Dr Alim Uddin, former chief scientific officer of Fruit Research Station, said Rajshahi along with its adjacent Naogaon and Chapainawabganj districts is famous for its mangoes that attract people from all over the country every summer. Production of the fruit increases each year, but unfortunately, there is no mango-preservation scope or processing plant here as a whole. Officials of the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) are expecting around 275,000 tons of production from different mango orchards on 28,000 hectares of land in the three districts.
Preservation along with processing facilities can be the crucial means of saving around 30 percent mangoes from wastes every year in the region.
Source: bssnews.net