Rangpur, August 22, 2025 : Groundnut cultivation is becoming profitable for farmers in the Rangpur region. Farmers in five districts of the Rangpur agricultural region have produced a record 23,120 tonnes of groundnuts in this year's Rabi and the recently concluded Kharif-1 seasons.
Market officials said that farmers are able to sell their peanuts to wholesalers for 4,200 to 4,400 taka per maund (40 kg), depending on quality. Farmers in this region are happy to get high profits from peanut cultivation.
Acting Additional Director of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) of Rangpur region, agriculturist Md. Sirajul Islam told BSS, "The target was to produce 12,380 tons of groundnuts from 5,761 hectares of land in this region in the last Rabi season."
He added, "But farmers ultimately cultivated groundnuts on 5,679 hectares of land and produced 11,928 tons in the last Rabi season."
Similarly, the Department of Agricultural Extension had set a target of producing 11,470 tons of groundnuts from 5,384 hectares of land for the Rangpur, Gaibandha, Lalmonirhat, Kurigram and Nilphamari districts of this region in the Kharif-1 season.
Agriculturist Md. Sirajul Islam said, 'In the just-ended Kharif-1 season, farmers cultivated peanuts on 5,253 hectares of land and produced 11,084 tons of the crop.'
In recent years, farmers in the Rangpur region have been getting good yields by cultivating high-yielding varieties of groundnut developed by the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI).
He added, "With the increasing demand for peanuts in the country's growing food sector, farmers have increased the rate of peanut cultivation in prime farmland and vast pasture areas in recent years, receiving bumper yields and good prices."
Md. Mamunur Rashid, PhD Fellow of the Department of Agricultural Extension at Dinajpur Haji Mohammad Danesh University of Science and Technology, said, 'Farmers can earn 80,000 taka by producing 22 to 28 maunds of groundnuts per acre of land.'
He further said, 'In the last few years, ordinary farmers and common people of the Char have been considering groundnut cultivation as a profitable cash crop and are leaning towards it. Groundnut cultivation has improved their livelihood and standard of living.'
Additionally, due to the growing demand and good prices for food and agricultural products, peanut cultivation is increasing every year in farmland and the vast sandy char areas along the river banks.
Peanut trader at Rangpur City Market Md. Mokhlesur Rahman told BSS, "During the last Kharif-1 season, farmers were selling peanuts at Tk 4,200 to Tk 4,400 per maund, depending on the variety and quality."
He added, "We buy peanuts from farmers in local markets in rural areas of five districts of Rangpur and sell them to retailers at a price of 4,800 to 5,000 taka per maund."
Anwarul Islam, Lutfar Rahman, Yasin Ali, Saidul Islam, Nurul Haque and Mohammad Ali of Gangachara and Kaunia upazilas of Rangpur told BSS that they got a bumper crop of groundnuts in the last Rabi and Kharif-1 seasons and the prices were also good.
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