There are mango orchards on 26,150 hectares of land in the district. “Shibganj Upazila witnessed most of the damage where almost all of the 14,000 hectares of mango orchards got lashed by the storm,” he said. Around 4 percent of mangoes fell off trees in Rajshahi during the same storm. “Two to three percent of mangoes fell off small trees and four to five percent from large ones. DAE officer Deb Dulal said there were 125,000 mango trees on around 17,000 hectares of land in Rajshahi.

Source: bd News24 May 04, 2017 16:41 UTC