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Almekora Agro is a facility under development. Product availability is shown per product.

Chuadanga, Bangladesh

Dehydrated fruits, vegetables and agricultural ingredients from Bangladesh, for export buyers and food manufacturers.

Almekora Agro is developing a dedicated processing unit in Chuadanga, Bangladesh. The facility is in planning and is not yet operational.

Illustration of the Chuadanga agricultural landscape — rice paddy and vegetable plots, mango and palm trees, an irrigation channel, and bamboo trays of fruit drying in the open air.
Illustration — the Chuadanga sourcing region and its traditional open-air drying.

Current status

Stage
Facility planning and development
Location
Chuadanga, Bangladesh
Target commissioning
To be announced
Current activity
Product development, sourcing, and buyer discussions

Product range

Six product families in the initial range

Each product carries a status label showing what is genuinely available today. Nothing here is offered before we can define its specification, sourcing, seasonality, packaging and compliance pathway.

Origin

Why Bangladesh, and why Chuadanga

Bangladesh has substantial year-round horticultural production and a well-established agricultural labour base, but relatively little of that produce is processed for export. Most value is captured downstream, outside the country. Processing locally — close to the farm, before the shelf-life clock starts — is where that changes.

For buyers, Bangladesh represents an origin that is not yet crowded. Sourcing teams working to diversify away from concentrated supply in India, Vietnam and China have limited alternatives at comparable cost.

Chuadanga sits in the country's western agricultural belt, with a mixed cropping base across fruit, alliums and spices, and a harvest calendar that spreads intake across much of the year rather than concentrating it into a single season.

The district is within practical road distance of both Dhaka and the Chattogram and Mongla port corridors, and close enough to the growing areas to build relationships directly with farmer groups rather than buying through layers of intermediaries.

Sourcing and logistics schematicA simplified outline of Bangladesh showing the Chuadanga sourcing region in the west, with routes to Mongla and Chattogram ports and to Dhaka.ChuadangaSOURCING REGIONDhakaAir freightMonglaSea portChattogramMain sea port

Our sourcing catchment in the western agricultural belt, and its routes to Bangladesh's two sea ports and to Dhaka for air freight.

Schematic diagram — indicative positions, not to scale.

For buyers

Built around three things buyers ask us about first

Origin

Bangladesh sourcing, concentrated in the Chuadanga growing region. Sourcing relationships are being developed directly with growers and farmer groups in the region, rather than through open-market intermediary purchase.

Control

Planned in-house processing rather than pure trading, with traceability designed from lot back to farmer group. The process page sets out the chain we are building, and marks every step that is not yet operational.

Flexibility

Planned private-label and OEM capability, custom cuts and specifications, and smaller trial volumes than large incumbents typically accept — subject to packaging, minimum-order and production arrangements.

Evaluating a new origin for dehydrated ingredients?

We would rather talk to buyers now, while specifications are still being set, than present a finished sheet you have to work around. We respond to buyer enquiries within 2 business days.