Two decades of abandonment plagues Chapainawabganj state food warehouse
A state-owned food warehouse in Chapainawabganj has remained abandoned for nearly twenty years following a robbery incident. Local farmers now face severe difficulties as the lack of active storage leaves them dependent on intermediaries.
Nearly three acres of land in Chapainawabganj district house a state-owned food warehouse and residential buildings that have fallen into complete disuse. The facility is situated specifically in Deopura village, which falls under the Parbatipur union of Gomastapur upazila in the Chapainawabganj region. According to verified regional reports, the infrastructure was originally established to support local agricultural management and grain storage needs for the community.
However, the operational status of the Deopura government food warehouse changed drastically following a major criminal incident years ago. Authorities suspended all activities at the site due to critical security concerns that arose immediately after a robbery occurred on the premises. Since that security breach, the sprawling three-acre facility has remained entirely inactive and abandoned for approximately two decades, enduring years of neglect without intervention from operational authorities.
The prolonged closure of the government food warehouse has generated severe economic repercussions for the agricultural community in the surrounding region. Without access to a functional state-operated storage and procurement centre, ordinary farmers find themselves in an increasingly desperate situation regarding the sale of their agricultural yields. Local agricultural stakeholders report that producers are effectively held hostage by local commission agents and market syndicates operating within the area.
Consequently, cultivators are forced to sell their hard-earned crops at significantly reduced prices directly to middlemen and petty traders known as phorias. This exploitative marketing chain prevents farmers from achieving any meaningful improvement in their overall standard of living. More critically, the depressed market prices fail to cover the actual production costs incurred by the growers during the agricultural season, leaving them deeply distressed and financially vulnerable.
