Guti mango collection has started in Rajshahi. Farmers have been collecting mangoes from different orchards since morning.
However, they said that it will take some more time to collect mangoes as they are not ripe in many places. In addition, different mangoes will come to the market in phases from the next possible date.
The district administration informed on Thursday thatGuti mango can be collected from May13th.
Besides, the district administration has fixed different time till August 20th to collect different varieties of mangoes. But farmers said, mangoes are not ripe yet. It will take some more time for the mango to ripen. Besides, the farmers said they will not harvest unripe mangoes due to low production of mangoes.
According to the Department of Agriculture, the target for this year has been set at 2 lakh 17 thousand metric tons, but the target will not be met due to low buds.