After exceeding the groundnut cultivation target, farmers in the Rangpur agricultural region have achieved a bumper harvest by producing 12,221 tonnes of the cash crop during the 2025-2026 Rabi season.
At the same time, farmers are very happy to earn huge profits by getting an all-time high price of Tk6,400 to Tk6,600 per maund (40 kg) for their freshly harvested groundnut in the local market.
The Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) officials said that a target of producing 12,245 tonnes of groundnut from 5,736 hectares of land was set for all five districts in the region during the 2025-2026 Rabi season.
"Farmers, however, had finally brought 5,748 hectares of land under its cultivation, exceeding the farming target by 12 hectares of land," Additional Director of the DAE's Rangpur region Krishibid Md Shirajl Islam said.
After completing harvest by the last week, farmers have produced 12,221 tonnes of groundnut at the average yield rate of 2.13 tonnes per hectare in Rangpur, Gaibandha, Kurigram, Lalmonirhat and Nilphamari.
Farmers are earning an all-time record net profit to the tune of Tk 1 lakh by producing 28 to 32 maunds of groundnut per acre of land, spending Tk40,000 to Tk50,000 per acre as farming costs on an average this year.
Groundnut trader Mokhlesur Rahman said that wholesalers are buying newly harvested groundnuts from farmers at rates between Tk6,400 and Tk6,600 per maund.
Last year, farmers sold their newly harvested groundnut at rates between Tk3,500 and Tk4,000 per maund at this period of the season.
Farmers are getting bumper groundnut yields with pleasing prices following expanded cultivation of its high yielding varieties evolved by Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute (BARI) on the main lands and char areas.
Md Mamunur Rashid, a PhD Fellow in the Department of Agricultural Extension at Dinajpur Haji Mohammad Danesh University of Science and Technology, said that farmers are expanding the low-cost groundnut farming and earning rewarding profits.
Both cultivation and production of groundnut are continuing to expand every year in the Rangpur agricultural region in recent times following increasing demand of the cash crop in the country's boosting food industries.
"There is a bright potential to further increase groundnut production in the region by expanding peanut cultivation in the riverside char areas as well as in the mainland by adopting appropriate cropping patterns and mixed-relay cropping systems," he said.
