Prospect of Thai payara cultivation bright in Narsingdi

The prospect of Thai payara (guava) cultivation is bright in the vast reddish and high lands in the district. 

A good number of farmers and unemployed educated youths mainly in Shibpur, Belabor and Polash Upazilas of the district are now eagerly cultivating Thai payara in placing of Kazi payara in their reddish and high fallow lands.

Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) official sources said cultivation of Kazi payara variety has began in the district since 2000. 

But in the recent year they have changed the variety of Kazi payara and in placing they have started cultivating the variety of Thai payara motivated by the department of DAE. 

Deputy Director of DAE, Latafat Hossain said the main characteristic of the variety of Thai payara is that the tree bears fruit only the period of two years after its plantation and the trees bear fruit around the year while variety of Kazi payara bears fruit after three or four years its plantation and the trees bears fruit only two months of a year. 

Thai payara is more tasteful and nutritious then Kazi payra. It is comparatively big in size then Kazi payara. Its market value is higher than Kazi payara. Per Kg Thai payara is now selling at taka 60 to 80 which contains only three to four payara. 

He said the department has given knowledge to the farmers on the cultivation process of the variety of Thai payara and motivating them to cultivate more Thai payara collecting sapling from horticulture of the DAE. 

He said farmers are happy on the prospect the production of Thai payara in the district. At present over 500 orchards of Thai payara are in the district.

Source: BSS.