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Traditional Cultivation and the Production System of Cannabis by the Ganja Society in Naogaon, Bangladesh
Tropical Agriculture and Development2023
A study of how ganja was grown and processed under licence in the Ganja Mahal of Naogaon, Bangladesh, until legal cultivation ended in the late 1980s, built from interviews with the last generation of cultivators during four field visits between 2017 and 2020, from the handwritten records kept at the Ganja Society Office, from the colonial reports and from publications in Bengali. The authors describe the division of the tract into three circles centred on Kirtipur, Gobindapur and Muradpur, each allowed to grow ganja once every three years, and the crops grown on the same land in the other years; the seedbeds, manuring and transplanting; the removal of male plants before they flowered by specialists called poddar or parakdar, the ganja doctor; and the harvest and manufacture in fenced yards called chatter or khola under the society's supervision. They present the record as knowledge that is being lost as the former cultivators age. The paper follows the same authors' history of ganja cultivation in Bangladesh from the late eighteenth century (2022); it describes a production system, not the plants grown.