The Post-Harvest Technology Division (PHTD) of the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI) arranged a two-day farmer training programme on Green Mango Processing and Preservation at Aralia village in Kapasia Upazilla of Gazipur. A total of 30 farmers from Kapasia upazilla participated in the training programme which ended on March 2.
Chief Scientific Officer & Head of PHTD Md. Hafizul Haque Khan was present as chief guest. Headmaster of Aralia High School Md. Abdus Samad Kajol chaired the function while Atikullah Dulal, 8 No. Ward Commissioner of Toke, Kapasia Upazilla was present as the special guest. Dr. Md. Golam Ferdous Chowdhury, Senior Scientific Officer of PHTD and the Program Director of the Green Mango Processing and Preservation Program delivered the welcome speech with short brief of the project activities.
The programme contents for the participants were how to preserve green mango for longer storage, processing of green mango into pickles and its preservation method, how to marketing the preserved mango and pickles and how to be benefited financially round the year.
