Sales of Dinajpur’s famed Bedana and Madrazi litchis are booming, with wholesale markets at Kalitola New Market and Gore Shahid Eidgah Maydan bustling from morning till night.
Transactions worth crores of taka are reported daily as the season peaks. Twenty per cent of the harvest meets local demand while the remaining 80 per cent is shipped to Dhaka and other districts.
GI‑certified Bedana litchis are also being readied for export to France, Canada and Australia, continuing the tradition of recent years.
Current market prices range from Tk300–400 per hundred Madrazi litchis, Tk500–700 for Bedana, and Tk800–900 for China‑3.
According to the traders, supply pressures from intense heat and rising demand from Dhaka wholesalers.
The Department of Agricultural Extension has set a production target of 34,628 tonnes across 5,520 hectares this season.
Additional Deputy Director (Crops) Md Anisuzzaman said daily transactions worth Tk25–30 million underline the crop’s growing role in the national agriculture economy.
