This year, due to favorable weather and proper care, there has been a high yield of pineapples in Tangail. Photo: BSS

TANGAIL, July 23, 2025 (BSS) - Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) is looking at the potential for a trade turnover of pineapple, a traditional GI product, amounting to around Tk 200 crore this season amid bumper yield in Tangail.

They have a plan to set up a factory to make different food products from pineapples and to export the products abroad.

Tangail's Madhupur upazila is famous for producing sweet and juicy pineapples that have a widespread demand all over the country. This year, due to favorable weather and proper care, there has been a high yield of pineapples in Tangail.

Every day, pineapples worth about Tk 3 crore are going to various districts of the country through 25 to 30 trucks from Jalchhatra Agricultural Market, Garobazar, Idilpur, Ashrabazar and Moter Bazar under Madhupur Upazila of Tangail.

Farmers said that they are happy with the price this year as there is a high demand for pineapples amid a bumper yield in the region due to favourable weather.

Pineapple growers and traders said that pineapples are being sold at a good price. This year, quality-wise each pineapple is being sold at Tk30-40.

According to the Madhupur Upazila Agriculture Office, pineapples have been cultivated in about 7,794 hectares of land in the upazila this season. Around 2.79 lakh metric tons pineapples have been produced. Pineapples produced in and around Madhupur are marketed through Jalchhatra Agricultural Market, Moter Bazar and other wholesale markets. Pineapples around 10 lakh pieces are being sold in these markets every day.

Talking to BSS, a pineapple trader Uzzal said: "We have been seeing pineapples in the market since June and this will continue till the middle of September. Farmers from different areas are bringing pineapples to Garo Bazar and Assra Bazar every day. Wholesalers are buying pineapples by the truckloads and sending those to different parts of the country."

Madhupur Upazila Agriculture Officer Rakib Al Rana said: "There is a high demand for pineapples in the market and on top of that yields have improved this year due to favourable weather. So, farmers are happy getting good prices for their produce."

Pineapple cultivation in Bangladesh started in 1942. Dayamoyi Sangma, a craftsman from the small tribal Garo community of Idilpur village in Madhupur, was the first to start pineapple cultivation. 

He brought 750 seedlings from Meghalaya, India and started pineapple cultivation in his house. Due to the enrichment of that cultivation, pineapple is now cultivated in different regions of the country. This pineapple is mixed with a hundred years of tradition and history.