PHOTO: MASUK HRIDOY

Traders and buyers crowd Awliya Bazar in Brahmanbaria’s Bijoynagar upazila, a major wholesale lychee market, shortly after dawn. The market operates for barely two hours each morning during the peak season, yet witnesses brisk trading as thousands of bunches of lychees change hands. Traders claim fruit worth around Tk 50 lakh is sold daily during the three-week season. The photo was taken recently.