Bangladeshi farmers carry pineapples on bicycles to sell them at a market at Madhupur in Tangail, Bangladesh. Pineapple has been cultivated on 8000 hectares of land where 300000 tones of pineapple are produced in Tangail, Bangladesh, the largest growing area of the country, in this year, according to Madhupur agriculture officials. Madhupur region is known as the capital of pineapple. Pineapple cultivation was first started in Bangladesh in 1942.
Ethnic Garo community of Idilpur Village in Madhupur Upazila was the first to cultivate pineapple. They brought 750 saplings from Meghalaya to start the cultivation. By enriching that cultivation, pineapples are now farmed in different parts of the country.