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Farmers in the Rangpur agricultural region are expected to begin cultivating winter crops from late September to early October, after the monsoon season ends, as in previous years.
With large amounts of silt deposited during the floods, farmers in char areas are preparing to sow crops on char lands and dried-up riverbeds in the Brahmaputra basin.
Officials said cultivation on the char lands will begin from late September to early October, provided there are no untimely floods or unusually heavy rains.
By May this year, char dwellers had completed harvesting their crops, recording bumper yields and securing good market prices.
Cultivation of crops such as peanuts, potatoes, onions, garlic, vegetables, pumpkins, squash and green chillies generally begins in late September, while harvesting starts in early December and continues until May of the following year.
“In the coming season, char farmers will cultivate various winter crops, mostly adopting intercropping and mixed-relay methods and using organic fertilisers to produce healthier and more nutritious crops,” a farmer said.
During the 2025-26 Rabi season, farmers living in char and riverbank areas cultivated crops on more than 82,000 hectares of char land across the five districts of Rangpur, Gaibandha, Lalmonirhat, Kurigram and Nilphamari.
They cultivated a wide range of crops, including Boro rice, potatoes, sweet pumpkins, squash, brinjal, onions, garlic, green chillies, gourds, bitter gourds, carrots, bananas, mustard, pulses, cauliflower, cabbage, peanuts and wheat.
“Char farmers have been producing around six lakh tonnes of crops worth about Tk 1,200 crore annually from 82,000 hectares of char land in the region in recent years,” he said, adding that crop cultivation in char areas has been increasing every year.
The vast char areas, dry riverbeds and floodplains of the Brahmaputra, Teesta, Dharla, Dudhkumar, Ghaghat, Jamuna, Karatoa and other rivers are increasingly being transformed into agricultural land, where a variety of crops are cultivated during the dry season.