All-time high prices with excellent yields of groundnut has made farmers happy in Rangpur agricultural region. Photo: BSS

RANGPUR, Feb 18, 2026 (BSS) - All-time high prices with excellent yields of groundnut has made farmers happy in Rangpur agricultural region where harvest of groundnut continues in full swing during the current Rabi season.

Market sources said farmers are currently selling their newly harvested groundnuts to wholesalers at excellent rates between Taka 6,000 to 6,300 per mound (every 40 kg) to earn huge profits.
 
Officials from the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) said that farmers in the region have exceeded the set target for groundnut cultivation for the first time in recent years, with cultivation of the highly profitable cash crop increasing every year.
 
The DAE has fixed a target of producing 12,245 tonnes of groundnut from 5,736 hectares of land for all five districts in the region during the current 2025-2026 Rabi season.  
 
"However, farmers have finally cultivated groundnut in 5,748 hectares of land, exceeding the set farming target by 12 hectares of land or 0.21 percent" Deputy Director of the DAE's Rangpur region Agriculturist Md Shirajl Islam said.
 
Till last Tuesday, farmers had already harvested groundnuts on 3,436 hectares of land producing 6,741 tonnes of the crop at the average yield rate of 1.96 tonnes per hectare.
    
Officials said farmers are earning an all-time record net profit to the tune of Taka 85,000 by producing 25 to 32 mounds of groundnut per acre of land, spending Taka 28,000 to Taka 32,000 as farming costs on an average. 
 
"Wholesalers are buying newly harvested groundnuts from farmers at rates between Taka 6,000 and Taka 6,300 per mound (every 40 kgs) now," groundnut trader Mokhlesur Rahman at Rangpur City Bazar told BSS today.
 
Last year, farmers sold their newly harvested groundnut at rates between Taka 3,500 and Taka 4,000 per mound at this period of the season.
  
Farmers are getting bumper groundnut yields with pleasing prices following expanded cultivation of its high yielding varieties evolved by Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute (BARI) on the main lands and char areas. 
 
Deputy Director of the DAE's Burirhat Horticulture Centre in Rangpur Krishibid Dr Md Abu Sayem said that cultivation and production of groundnut are continuing to expand following its increasing demand in the country's boosting food industries.
 
Farmer couple Md Aminul Islam and Ummey Kulsum of village Char Taluk Shahbaz on the Teesta riverbed in Kawnia upazila of Rangpur said they have cultivated groundnut on two acres of sandy char lands each this season. 
 
"We are harvesting groundnuts and expecting to get a total production of 60 mounds," Ummey Kulsum said, and hoped that they would earn a net profit of Taka 1.60 lakh excluding production costs. 
 
Farmers Nur Mohammad of Char Biswa Nath village and Abu Bakar of Char Gonai village in the same upazila said they have cultivated groundnuts on one and two acres of char land respectively on the Teesta riverbeds, spending Taka 30,000 per acre. 
 
They also expressed firm hopes to get bumper groundnut yields and lucrative market prices this season.