As the main agricultural region of the district, the larger Laksam Upazila in the southern part has now developed into a large agricultural product market as an import and export factor area.
Although small and medium-sized industrial factories have been established in various upazilas of this region, no one has established any industrial institution for the welfare of the poor farmers.
Although a large number of local industrialists are residents of this region, due to their lack of sincerity and initiative, no institution like cold storage has been established in this region to store agricultural products, and as a result, several lakhs of farmer families in this region are suffering financially in marketing those products.
However, although there are two cold storages in Lalmai Upazila of the district, there are no other 5 upazilas, so there is no end to the problem of storing agricultural products. Farmers in this region are facing various crises in the agricultural market.
Sources further said that although the farming community of this region has come a long way in the current era of information technology in various business fields, the agricultural industry has not been able to expand.
Local farmers face unbearable hardships with agricultural products during the winter season due to the lack of cold storage for storing agricultural products. In different seasons, it is seen that the farmers of this region produce a large amount of surplus agricultural products, but due to the lack of storage, those products are on the verge of spoiling and they have to pay lakhs of taka and they have to calculate the loss of a lot of taka at a lower price than the cost of production. If cold storage is established for the sake of preserving agricultural products at the government or private level, the farming community of this region would have benefited a lot if they could store their agricultural products in the cold storage and sell them at a convenient time later instead of selling them at the current market price, and the government would also have an easy way to earn a huge amount of revenue.
Another source of agricultural traders in the southern part of the district said that due to lack of protection and care, farmers often have to pile up their agricultural produce in the markets of the upazilas under the open sky. In addition, many times the agricultural produce gets wet in the hot sun and rain, and is being used as cattle feed. It is necessary to set up multiple cold storages in this region to protect agricultural produce. But there is no government allocation for this project. If the local rich and industrialists of this region invested in this project, it would bring enough success to their business profits and keep the farmers' produce in stock. Especially the rural economy would become stronger.
Despite repeated attempts to reach several officials of the relevant departments, including the district and upazila agriculture and industry departments, on their mobile phones, it was not possible to get their statements.
